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24 Fun Mother Daughter Trips You’ll Want to Take Right Now

January 15, 2018 By Lauren

These 24 fun mother daughter trip ideas will get you excited to spend quality time with the special girls in your life.

Below: Go on one of these fun mother daughter trips to spend some quality time with the special girl(s) in your life. It was November and that meant one thing. Actually it meant a lot of things: Winter was beginning, Thanksgiving was right around the corner, Christmas would follow soon after that… But for my […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational Tagged With: daughter, day trips, fun mother daughter trips, mother, parenting, travel, vacation

Good Mother’s Day Quotes to Share With the Amazing Women in Your Life

May 8, 2017 By Lauren

These quotes about moms are the perfect Mother's Day quotes to share with the special women in your life!

Below: Seven good Mother’s Day quotes to share with the amazing women in your life! It’s that time of year. The time where we think about the women who raised us or the kids who made us moms. It’s the time of year to celebrate mothers! Moms work hard every day loving and caring for […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Holidays, Informational Tagged With: mom, mother, Mother's Day, mother's day quotes, quotes

To Eli, on your 7th Birthday

May 12, 2015 By Lauren

To Eli, On Your 7th Birthday

  Dear Eli, Back in January we spent a bitterly cold afternoon visiting Daddy while he worked on a construction project. We slid around on the ice-covered ground for a while, then hopped into his truck and cranked the heat in order to regain feeling in our fingers and toes. As we slowly warmed up, your […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays, Uncategorized Tagged With: birthday, letter, letter to child, mom, mother, seven, seventh birthday, son

To All the Moms

May 9, 2015 By Lauren

To All the Moms

  To all the moms: To the Some Day Mom who dreams of the day when the time is right to start a family, To the Trying Mom who has just started her journey or who is finding the journey far more arduous and heartbreaking than she imagined, To the Expectant Mom who carries her greatest […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Holidays Tagged With: child, children, kids, mom, moms, mother, Mother's Day, motherhood, mothers

What Happens When We Share Our Stories

May 8, 2015 By Lauren

Listen to Your Mother Bangor

  What are your days like? If you have young kids like I do, they’re probably filled with snack prep and hand washing, diaper changing and bathroom breaks, toy cleanup and dirty laundry. It’s not often that a mom of three living in central Maine has a reason to get dressed up and spend a night out […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Random Tagged With: listen to your mother, ltym, mother, motherhood, show, stories, unity

It Was Just a Set of Steps

May 7, 2015 By Lauren

It Was Just a Set of Steps

  It was just a set of steps. Three or four granite slabs set into the side of a grassy hill. The steps didn’t lead anywhere. In fact, you could skip them entirely simply by walking up the hill beside them only to be met with more hill beyond. They sat close to the edge of the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: childhood, memories, mother, Mother's Day, motherhood, steps

What Would It Be Like to Raise a Perfect Son?

December 20, 2014 By Lauren

Perfect Son

This time of year always gets me thinking about Mary. Not just about the pictures of her we see in the nativity scenes that pop up everywhere in December, but about what it must have been like to be her. What Would It Be Like to Raise a Perfect Son? Before I go any further, […]

Filed Under: Holidays Tagged With: Christmas, jesus, love, mary, mother, motherhood, nativity, parenting, perfect, son

A Letter to My Teenage Daughter While You’re Still a Little Girl

September 2, 2014 By Lauren

Letter to Daughter

A Letter to My Teenage Daughter While You’re Still a Little Girl Dear Annelise, You spoke three words to me tonight that took firm hold of my heart (and no, they weren’t those three words). As I’ve pondered them, I’ve realized it’s time to write you a letter; a letter you won’t read for a […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: daughter, girl, letter, mother, mother daughter relationship, parenting, relationships, teenager

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