To get motivatedHave you ever had a day when you thought, “Oh my goodness…I have to get up and start moving but I just can’t. How can I get anything done when I have no mental energy? I have NO MOTIVATION!” ……Yeah…me too. I’m too tired or overwhelmed or whatever. Sometimes it’s physical but a
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Accomplishing your goals can often be this vague idea without a lot of direction. It isn’t a clear principal taught in schools other than “Go to college” or “Go to trade school” to do the next thing. As I’ve spent time working on and thinking about accomplishing different goals, a number of successes and failures
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As a homeschooling mom, I started emphasizing time management with my kids when they reached junior high. By the time they were in highschool, it was expected that they would manage their time and get their school work done in a timely fashion. That worked in theory, but how that played out in real life
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Ten Minute Momentum is a place of encouragement, resources, ideas and hope for busy moms. Do you have goals and dreams that have been stowed away and dismissed because of our season of life, finances, education or any number of other reasons? For a lot of years, I felt discouraged and disqualified to accomplish these
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Ten Minute Momentum is a place where I want to help you look at your minutes and days a little differently. For too many years, I disqualified myself from accomplishing goals. I had lots of excuses. I was busy. I didn’t have time. I had too many kids. Homeschooling and foster parenting took up all
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(Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive a small commission from items purchased through the links below) Scrolling through Amazon, I was quickly skimming to see if there were any books on adoption that jumped out at me. We started our fostering journey in 2010 and adoption in 2013. Right now, I’m in a season of reflecting
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When I am in conversation with people, especially someone I don’t know well, it will often come up that my husband and I were foster parents for many years. When people hear we have 9 children, the next questions is usually, “Are they all yours?” I’m comfortable saying, “Yes they are… 6 are biological and
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Psalm 91 has 5 names of God. This is key to understanding the power behind this Psalm and the protection it offers for us today. Psalm 91 is a secret key to helping believers know and trust God no matter what is happening around them.
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If you are new to fostering or just beginning the process, you may wonder what is back to school like in foster care? Over the years, several of our foster children were school-aged. This is a distinctly different experience than having preschool or infant foster children because children going to school are going into yet
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Several months ago, I made a “contract” with my teen foster child. After our foster daugther had been here about a month, it became apparent that there were some serious issues that nearly caused a placement disruption. We were dealing with issues common to kids in foster care like stealing, lying and deception. Initially I handled
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