Tuesday is my Positive Moms get together. We aren’t all positive moms, but we are all working together to get there. Today was amazing. I felt refreshed and ready to take on the world when I got home. I even took time to sit with some of the other mothers for [...]

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Tags: dealing with husbands, juggling schedules

Yahoo recently ran an article showing us how we can clean our house in just 19 minutes. I love the concept - a few minutes each day in each room will lead to a tidy home all the time. There is just a small flaw in their ideas, at least for my home. [...]

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Tags: chores, clean house, schedule

I committed a couple of weeks back to get rid of my excess weight and to be health and fit once again. Today my husband took that commitment to a whole new level – one that involves public display, YIKES!
The conversation started out safe enough. He was telling me all about how he [...]

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Tags: dance, fitness, health, weight loss

God should be my dependence. It’s just hard not to rely on someone whom you trust for things that person commits to. So disappointment is natural when that person fails to follow through. I get upset with myself for turning my dependence away from God. I get frustrated with the person [...]

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Tags: dependence, God, Proverbs

Today is one of those days when I feel like I have it all together. I’m handling the temper tantrums with peace. My quiet time was just the right length. The only thing that I have accomplished this morning is the chore list.
It’s been just over an hour since I came in [...]

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Tags: husbands, peace

Our household has been a much more peaceful place over the last several weeks. My husband and I have instituted the “Buck System.” Each child earns bucks through the week by doing choirs, doing things that are asked the first time and having a good attitude. They lose bucks with misbehavior or [...]

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Tags: checks, finances, kids

It seems easy to make the decision that focuses on self. It is the natural thing to do. But one look at the life of a person that lives that way proves that living for self is not an easier life – in some ways it becomes more complicated.
I am determined to live [...]

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Tags: proverbs 31, tips

This morning I was reading an old entry in my diary. “The differences require my dependence on God.” It turns out that even when I face a similar situation as before, I have to come at it from a different angle. If I could work it out the same each time then [...]

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Tags: change, dependence, God

Several years ago I discovered a great little program that said there was no need to diet. Dieting was just a way of controlling food instead of controlling yourself. I jumped on board and lost 30 pounds in just twelve weeks. The best part of it all was that I stopped drinking [...]

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Tags: diet, exercise, weight loss

Over the last several weeks, every bible study I have been going through, every devotional that I have received and every sermon I have heard has focused on obedience in one form or another. I’ll admit I have been struggling a bit with the whole concept of just doing what I know to do. [...]

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