How to make your goals work for you

On Monday, I talked a little bit about why goals fail. Today, my post is going to zero in a little bit on one of those points: how to make your goals part of your every day life. In our family, we created some long term goals for different things. One of those areas was [...]

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Goals: Pressing Forward towards the Mark

goals: pressing toward the mark

Do you have goals that govern you and how you live your daily life? I don’t think it’s a secret that I’m something of an organizational product junkie. I have had to learn to stop looking for “one more thing” that will make me more organized in the proverbial “three easy steps”. But over the [...]

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Sheltering and Letting Go

As I said in yesterday’s post about my favorite three pieces of parenting advice I ever received, most of this was on my mind as we drove our son down to Tennessee, 11 hours away, to work in a Christian camp this summer.  Since we knew about this opportunity last fall, I’ve had some interesting [...]

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The Three Most Useful Pieces of Parenting Advice I’ve Ever Received

As a younger mom, I was eager to figure out this whole motherhood thing, because this was one eventuality that was never in my plans. Some girls dream of the day they’d be moms. I didn’t really give it much thought, until panic settled in when taking home a new baby for the first time. [...]

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Mommy Guilt & Parenting Books

This morning, a friend on Facebook shared an article at the London Daily Mail about how a university study shows that parenting guides by “experts” make new mother’s feel inadequate by setting standards too high. (I’d like a high paying job studying the blatantly obvious…lol). This got me thinking about my own mothering journey.  I [...]

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Kimberly Eddy and Joyful Momma Publishing

My name is Kimberly and I am the main author here at Adventures in Mothering. My goal is to encourage other moms in raising kids who love God and finding joy in the everyday. I have a burden, born out of hard times in my own life, to help other moms enjoy the journey of motherhood and overcome the burden of “mom guilt”. In addition to the posts on this blog, I’ve written articles for other publications, as well as several books and ebooks which you can find in my store.

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