It's hard for me to admit this, and I have a close circle of friends who understand me and the experience I've had as a mother. I'm so grateful for these friends because being a mom has not been the most natural thing for me. My daughter is 2 years old and is a light in my life. However, no one could have prepared me for the journey of motherhood. There is so much judgment that [...]
i saw this on my Australian friend Dave Andrew's Facebook page today and i think it will give us a lot to think about if we take it seriously - if you find it too long then at least read the bolded bit at the beginning and the ten 'commandments' at the bottom [but seriously, just read the whole thing!]: And Now For A Quiet Word With My Fellow Christians: If Jesus Really Is [...]
To be a mom, I’m sure means different things to different moms. Each journey into and through motherhood is littered with moments and memories that are particular to that mom and to her journey with her children. I’m a mom of two ~ and believe me, I don’t profess to know anything at all about being the perfect mom. Actually, the longer I’m a mom, the more I realise how much I really don’t know [...]
"Why do you wear those things on your knees?" "Look at Steph, she is so slow. Ha ha!" "Why can't she run and jump like a normal kid?" "Steph you're a freak." These are the refrains that followed me around as a child born with the mildest possible strain of Ataxia, which is a form of Cerebral Palsy. As an adult, I am incredibly fortunate that I now live a "normal" life, have a "normal" [...]
I am 'Mum' to three amazing biological children. Sir J, aged 14, Lady M aged 12 and Little Miss 7. You can stop pulling that face, these are not their real names, just how I refer to them in order to respect their future online identity and privacy. My initiation into motherhood didn't begin with a pretty white dress, two rings on my finger, a Christian husband who'd vowed to love me for life, or a [...]
Brett has been nagging, I mean asking, me to do a follow up post to the one we did on adoption to see what life is like two years after adopting our daughter Rachel. I have been putting it off, mostly due to legitimate reasons. We have became a family of four as I gave birth to our second daughter, Emma, and so life does have that frenetic/blurry/chaotic/kid edge to it that makes it hard [...]
To be a mom I was never one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding. I never dreamt of babies or being a wife. I climbed trees, hid stray animals and dreamt of exploring the world. I’ve had an independent spirit from as far back as I can remember. My life changed when I fell pregnant at the age of 22 - the devastation gave way to instantaneous, glorious, immovable love the second I [...]
a friend of mine sent me an email with a post titled 'To be a Mom' in it. i'm not sure why she sent it - i can't remember if it was part of something i had asked her to write or if she had just decided this was something needing to be written and had sent it to me. what it did though was spark something inside of me: What if i gave that [...]
Being a dyslexic: Hi there, my name is Rebecca Benn, and I suffer (although I find my condition to be a blessing) from a learning disability or syndrome called dyslexia. The dictionary defines my syndrome as a developmental reading and spelling disorder that occurs when the brain does not properly recognise, transmit and process certain symbols, whether these symbols are letters or numbers. What this means for me is that as a 20 year old [...]
So i've been writing some challenging [hopefully] pieces on church of late and it's time for your input. A lot of people have got this vibe of, 'You HAVE to belong to a local church!' otherwise... well i'm not really sure what the otherwise is, but the being part of a local church seems to be a pretty insisted upon thing. And what i am trying to figure out - and i really hope you [...]