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I hope you are enjoying all these stories about real women becoming moms. This is my way of celebrating Mother’s Day all week. If you haven’t yet, please post your own story on your blog and link up to the original post. Or shoot me an email with your story and I’ll make a post…

I’ve just returned home from visiting a dear friend of mine, her husband and their sweet, six-week-old first-born. She seems to have transitioned right into motherhood beautifully. She is calm, patient, and in awe of her little angel. She is almost the perfect picture of butterflies and sunshine motherhood and I was amazed! Motherhood and…

Thanks for all of your interest in my recycled Ranger Rick giveaway. I was hoping someone would enter and was delighted when I received 10 entries! My random number helpers (aka my two sons) have selected the grand prize winner of the 8 Ranger Rick magazines. The magazines will go to commenter #4, Kristen T.…

Tonight I was in a class at church when the pastor suggested we all turn in our Bibles to a passage in Acts. Great… except I didn’t have my Bible with me. (I know, I know… duh! Should have had it with me!!) Normally I do… and, well, now I almost always will… Fortunately I…

Just waiting for the fun to begin… Check out more fun photos at Wordless Wednesday.

My newest niece, Cora, and my sister-in-law, Toni are doing much better. Toni has been released from the hospital with instructions to take it very easy. As far as I know, Cora is still in the NICU, but may be released soon. Thank you so much for your prayers. To see pictures of Cora and…

I just got off the phone with my brother. He said that Toni (The Happy Housewife, for those of you just tuning in) and Cora are doing better. Cora is still in the NICU and will likely stay there for a week, as she was born at 36 weeks. She is still having trouble breathing,…

Today my sister-in-law, The Happy Housewife, delivered Cora Jane, her sweet baby girl, 4 weeks early. Toni was induced because of extremely high blood pressure and a few other things. Cora is having trouble breathing on her own. At this point they are still determining why that is the case. If you could take a…

I really want to be a kind, generous wife to my husband. I think I do an okay job, but I could be better. And to be honest, sometimes I really don’t know how to serve my husband better and I could use some coaching. Enter The Generous Wife. Last night I finally subscribed to…

By the time this posts I should be pedaling away on the 80 mile route on the Bluebonnet Express, a training ride for the MS 150 in 3 weeks. I’ll be honest. As I write this I’m a tad nervous about the ride. But I’m praying for the best. And it should be a good,…

So this is my first blog party and if you’re joining me from the Ultimate Blog Party 2009, I’m especially glad you’ve come to join in the fun. (If you haven’t, of course I am glad you are here, too. ) I’m Amy, your hostess here at MomsToolbox. What is Mom’s Toolbox exactly? Ooohh. Tough…

I am on chapter 22 of  Same Kind of Different as Me, an amazingly powerful book. I am so overwhelmed by it that I could not keep it to myself. Anyone else reading it or already read it? It was recommended to me by someone at church so I bought it for my husband for…

My SOAP post yesterday brought a lot of questions to mind and I appreciate the responses I got. I did a little more digging around in Matthew and here is what I’ve come up with: Evidently the laws outlined in the Old Testament fall into three categories: ceremonial, civil and moral. The ceremonial laws were…

A friend from my son’s class shared a great resource with the rest of us: www.puzzle-maker.com. You can go to this site and input words to be made into a word search puzzle or enter words and clues to be made into a crossword puzzle. It’s super-easy, free and is super-quick, too. I just made…