Christian Stay at Home Moms» Question of the Week (QOTW)

{QOTW} What are you doing for summer vacation?

CSAHM — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:46:12 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
What are you doing for summer vacation?

Well I have been planning out what I’m going to do for the next few months. Homeschooling is just about over for this year and I feel like I’m going to have SO much time on my hands, lol!

My plan for June, July, and August is to go to the pool A LOT, and we are also going to do some language and reading for “summer Homeschool” just to keep the kiddos mind fresh, and also to help with keeping them busy. I’m also thinking about taking on a new workout routine (P90X) since I will have SO much time on my hands, lol!

Then in September we are going on our second family vacation in 8 years to Florida! We will be visiting Disney and the beach – this will be my kiddos first time to the beach, and my two youngest will be visiting Disney for the first time too! I’m really excited!

So what are you doing during summer vacation?

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{QOTW} Endless Supply of Food…

CSAHM — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:00:10 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
If you could have an endless supply of food, what would you get?

Well I think for me I would request restaurant gift cards…does that count? No? Ok well then I guess I would get shrimp. I love shrimp and could probably eat it every single day. Maybe…lol!

What would you get?

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{QOTW} How Do You Rest?

CSAHM — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:08:14 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
How do you rest?

We had a speaker at my church’s local womans retreat and her name was Beth Booram. She was speaking on her book The Wide Open Spaces of God: A Journey With God Through the Landscapes of Life. The one landscape she spoke on that really stuck out to me was the green pastures landscape.

Green pastures is where we find rest, but she pointed out that we need to choose to go there. So lately I have been intentionally looking for ways to rest everyday. I find this helpful because I often find when it’s time for me to serve the Lord, if I do not rest up, then I do not have the energy to do so. Right now I’m finding that balance between work and rest.

Some things I intentionally try to do everyday to find rest:

Sit down and eat with my kiddos and take the time to rest while I’m eating.
Take a 30 minute nap. I’ve also been “leading” my kiddos to green pastures and implementing a rest time for them during the day too.
Read a book.
Folding laundry, amazingly folding laundry actually helps me to rest. I have to sit down to fold laundry, and often I keep the television off so I can find a moment of quiet in my day.

SO those are all of the things I can think of. I would love to here what you do when God leads you to green pastures…

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{QOTW} How do you connect with your children?

CSAHM — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:43:24 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
How do you connect with your children?

Lately I have been feeling this sort of disconnect with my kiddos. Life seemed to be all about errands, chores, and homeschooling. It is really easy to get caught up in the responsibilities of life and that’s why I personally need to intentionally carve out some connect time with my kiddos every single day.

Recently I started doing devotionals with my two youngest and they are: Gotta Have God 2: Cool Devotionals for Boys (ages 6-9), and God and Me! Devotions for Girls ages 6-9.

For my 13 year old we are working on getting a daily devotional put together for us to do, but we are beginning to work on a weekly Bible Study “Beauty by the Book” for moms and daughters. Which the author of this study is our QOTW sponsor today, and you can find the link below!!

I find that these DAILY moments is truly my favorite part of the day, and if you ask me it is the most important part the day, more important that school, chores, and errands.

What do you do to connect with your kiddos? Do you have any daily devotional recommendations for girls age 13 years old and up?

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{QOTW} Name One Thing You LOVE About Your Husband

CSAHM — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:57:58 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
Name one thing you LOVE about your husband.

There are so many things I love about my husband, but one thing that is sticking out to me right now is that he is my best friend. I love that I get to end most of my days just talking with him, watching TV, laughing, and cuddling with him. I look forward to that time with him and I especially look forward to our date nights and just hanging out with my best friend.

So, tell me one thing you LOVE about your husband.

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{QOTW} What do you do to let go of anger?

CSAHM — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:44:32 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
What do you do to let go of anger?

Anger is always something I personally struggle with. It has definitely gotten better over the years, but I still have my moments where I do get angry.

I don’t feel like getting angry is a “bad” thing, but I do feel what we do with our anger matters, a lot!

For me personally one thing I do when I feel angry is I ask myself “why?” Then I truly try to reflect on why I’m angry. One filter I place my answers to the “why” question is the truth that nobody can make me angry, so I keep asking myself the “why am I angry?” question until I have an answer that *I* can own.

For example instead of saying “I’m angry because my kiddos are being disrespectful to me.” I look for an answer that I can own: “I feel like my kiddos think I’m unimportant when they ignore what I have to say.”

This isn’t to dismiss any misbehavior that my kiddos are doing, if they are being disrespectful then they will have to face the consequences. But at least I can own my anger and I won’t take it out on them.

What do you do to let go of anger?

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{QOTW} What did you accomplish today?

CSAHM — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:05:56 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
What did you accomplish today?

As moms we often focus a lot on what we didn’t accomplish in a day, but today I would like for us to focus on what we DID accomplish!

For me I finished two loads of laundry, homeschooling, and right now I’m finishing up my online work to do list by posting today’s question of the week.

What did you get done today?

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{QOTW} Do you have a dog?

CSAHM — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:19:48 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
Do you have a dog?

SO our family is in the discussion to have a dog. Actually my husband is still thinking about it.

However I think eventually we will get a dog for our family, the only problem is what type of dog to get? SO I thought I would ask you all what type of dog do you have?

We are looking for a really good family dog with very little aggression. It has to be very tolerant as my kiddos like to play a lot and have a lot of energy.

I would love to hear your suggestions! Thank you!

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{QOTW} Is Pride Holding You Back?

CSAHM — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:11:15 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
Is pride holding you back?

For so long everyone that I have looked up to as a mentor has always relayed the message that if you are GOOD at what you do then you will succeed. So for so long I have taken failure as a sign that maybe I’m not really good enough.

I am getting ready to publish my next eBook “Breaking Pride” and this eBook is about, you guessed, pride. As I gear up to share this eBook with the world I am consumed by all the thoughts that I am not a “good enough” writer and maybe I shouldn’t publish the eBook. It’s my pride that is holding me back from publishing an eBook about pride…wow!

You see when we let go of our pride, and all the things that WE need to do in order to be “good enough” and “successful”, we release our self into the arms of God’s grace. I’m not an amazing best selling writer, and my writing may not be perfect. But that’s the amazing thing about His grace, whoever reads my writing will take away whatever it is God’s wants them to take away. It will bless them and help them grow as God sees fit. My writing doesn’t have to be perfect, I just need move past my pride and be willing to put the message out there for all to read, and I truly believe in the message God has placed on my heart for this eBook.

Perfection is not the key to success, faith is…fear holds us back, and fear produces pride.

Is pride holding you back?

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{QOTW} What is Your Favorite Bible Study?

CSAHM — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:21:30 +0000

Welcome to the CSAHM “Question of the Week.” Please feel free to share your answers, ideas, or thoughts to the “Question of the Week” in the comments section below.

This weeks question:
What is your favorite bible study?

I think one of my absolute favorite Bible Studies has been “Deeper Still by Edna Ellison,” It was such a deep study and I remember it keeping me grounded during a very stressful time in my life.

What is your favorite Bible Study?

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