top ten motherhood posts

Today I wanted to share with you some of my top motherhood posts from the year. These posts are a reflection of my heart and my desire to speak truth about the value of mothers in a very crowded world of chatter and labels regarding who we are as mothers. All that noise eats away at that question of do we really matter and does what we do every single day matter?

You matter.

In the every single nitty-gritty put your hair in a pony tail grab your yoga pants day of motherhood.

Here’s my heart – and my words of encouragement to you. I’ve listed the top ten motherhood posts and an excerpt from each {the link it embedded in the title}. Be blessed today. To receive finding joy via email simply click subscribe.

1- Dear Sweet Mom Who Feels Like She is Failing
You’re not.

If you and I were sitting in Starbucks and you had your fave drink and I had my Caramel Macchiato I’d look at you, and I’d tell you the truth – you’re not failing.

2- Ten Things Moms Need to Remember
10. Moms matter. Ending with that because, well, that’s the truth. Remember that today as you go through your normal routine and pull up your bootstraps and keep going and writing your gratitude list. You’re awesome. And amazing. And, as my almost seven year old tells me, you rule mom, you rule.

3- Dear Mom on the Hard Days
We’re in this motherhood race together.
Look at everything you’ve already done today. Look at when you did great – when you didn’t flip out over spilled milk or when the laundry was caught up or when you just decided to forget about getting the dishes done and instead picked up your toddler and read the same book over and over and over.

4- Dear Moms with Littles
I want you to know that what you are doing matters — and that where you are right now in your parenting journey is seriously one of the hardest stages in my own parenting journey. You are needed all day long. It is exhausting. There is no fanfare, no awards, no blue ribbons, no nothing for being a mom. And sometimes, it’s easy to think that what you are doing doesn’t matter. That your work – the picking up, cleaning, diaper-changing, nose wiping, feeding, rocking, reading, cooking and more doesn’t matter.

But, dear sister, it matters. Deeply. Life matters.

5- 20 Motherhood Tips
18. Cherish today. Don’t wish away today thinking about how great it will be when they are this age or when you have more free time. I know how hard motherhood days are and how draining they can be. But, dear friends, the toddler will only be two once, and the eight year old with his funny knock knock jokes will only belly laugh at them for one summer, and the teenager who just wants to get coffee with you will soon be grown. Cherish right now. Breathe deep.

6- Dear “In a Minute” Mom
Don’t let life, don’t let the crazy pace of life, the unending cycle of busy rob you from the minutes with your family. Don’t let the books that they want to read stay on the couch for days until the day when that old Arthur book never leaves the shelf because the six year old has grown and lost interest in the story.

Just watch the in a minutes. Or the just a seconds, waits, hold ons, and more.

7- Dear Moms with Little Babes
Sit now, hold your little one in your arms, and look at that teeny face, that little face that will someday call you momma, and rest in the joy and the gift of being a mother. Rest. Do your one thing. Accept help. Breathe. And don’t compare the normal of right now to your normal. The normal will come, and with it will be an integration of a new life, a new little one, into your life.

8- The Pinterest Perfect Real Mom
You, the mother in the trenches, are the pinterest perfect real mother.
Your day, and all you do, is beautifully amazing.
And it? It’s repinned every single day.

9-Ten Simple Ways to Bless Your Children
10. Tell them you love them. Every single day. Make this part of your routine. My kids matter more and my love for them is not based on any stipulations – it is the unconditional love that I have for my children as their mother. They need to know that they are loved, valued, and important. So I tell them that I love you every single day. It takes 1.3 seconds. And it is so worth it.

10-10 Days of Intentional Parenting – Awake
You can do it. You can mother with an intentional heart. You can find joy in the every day beautiful moments of life. It is a posture for your heart to live in — a posture of being aware, awake, and really living for today.
Will you join me?

And with that – I thank you for joining me on this crazy and yet very beautiful journey of motherhood. You can do it. I can do it. One day, one step at a time.