Hello Friends!!
First of all I want to say thank you so much for all of your sweet comments on my “Dream” post! I really love being able to share from my heart, and plan to do so more. I want to not only inspire women in their homes but encourage their dreams – whatever they may be – as well! So thank you for allowing me to do just that! In case you missed it, and maybe could use a little encouragement in your life, you can check out the post HERE, where I shared about how I overcame my fear, and began to start pursuing the dream that God put on my heart 6 years ago! Today however I have some exciting news I want to share with you all. I’ve shared before how I want to start incorporating more lifestyle posts on the blog, and perhaps a little more transparency with you.
And while I will be sharing more of that on here, I’ve been given the amazing opportunity to be a contributor over on the Christian Mommy blog!
I am so incredibly thankful for this opportunity where I get to share some of my “mom” heart with readers, sharing my struggles and my own personal victories in motherhood. I will be sharing over there once a month, and want to invite you all to follow me along, because if it’s one thing I’ve learned about motherhood so far in these very short 9 years of doing it, is that we need each other! I need other moms in my life who have gone before me and have wisdom who are now on the other side, just like I can encourage those who are in the same season, or perhaps just starting out. I know for a fact that I am a better mom because of other moms around me. I kicked things off this mom sharing a little encouragement as we get ready to head back to school.
Here’s a little snippet from my most recent post –
” I welcome all things back to school, except for one—comparing myself to other moms. For us moms, it’s easy to notice what other moms are doing in contrast to what we are not doing. You see, I don’t volunteer in my kid’s classroom or perfectly label all their things with customized monogrammed tags. I haven’t chaperoned a field trip nor, dare I say, volunteered for the PTA. YIKES! I could point out all the ways I’m falling short, but I’ve come to realize that it’s completely OK. I didn’t get there overnight. No, this took a few years to work through. I had to get over some serious mom guilt (you know the kind that makes you feel like a complete and utter failure). It took some processing and really digging deep into the kind of mom that God wants me to be.”
I love that there are sorts of different kinds of moms out there. And I love that whether you have biological children of your own, grandchildren, adopted kids, or you stand in as a mom figure to some special kids in your circle, you are chosen to do just that! Not to be like anybody else. That you are equipped with special gifts and abilities that only you carry.
You can catch the entire post HERE. I’ll be sharing little snippets from each months article, but I invite you to subscribe because there is an amazing group of women who will also be sharing from their hearts each month as well.
I shared a post this past mothers day on 5 Things Motherhood has Taught me, and so many of you said how much it resonated with you, regardless of what season of motherhood you are in. I’m so excited to have more opportunities to share more posts like that, in hopes that will encourage other moms in every season. You can read that post HERE.
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We do all have special gifts and never feel bad about anything you don’t do just focus on your best abilities and what you want to do. I wish when i was young i had more ways of reaching out but i made it okay, with God’s help of course but a struggle. You are doing a wonderful service for women, bless you Bre.
Thanks Marlene 🙂 Always appreciate your kind words!
I think your have made a great commitment. We all have a purpose and it seems you searched several avenues before you committed. It is true we need to know the detail before we jump in both feet. Looking forward to following your progress.
Ohh Thank you SO much!
Oh I know your feelings! Over the years, many years, I learned not to compare myself with others but to do what I felt was the best for us all. I found that love, lots of it, were the main ingredients to bringing up a family. They are going to be naughty, disappoint you at times, not take any notice of you at others but with continued love and no violence or harshness they will grow up to be decent human beings who love you back and thank you for your example of love. We taught them right from wrong, how to treat others and made sure we stuck by the same rules ourselves. No-one ever said this was going to be an easy journey and it isn’t but the rewards are great. I am now a grandmother with a 20 year old and almost 17 year old grandsons and I couldn’t be more proud of them and their parents. Enjoy your journey because it will be the most rewarding one you ever experience.