by Becky Thompson | Apr 21, 2014 | For Mommas, My Life
“I don’t know what the difference is… or what changed… but you moms seem to have so much more pressure on yourselves than we ever did.” It was such a short conversation, but I have been thinking about it for weeks. What has changed between her generation and mine?...
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by Becky Thompson | Apr 17, 2014 | For Mommas
I’m guilty. I’m sure you are too. The paint ends up on the wall after the 30th, “Don’t do it!” The baby gets hit with a flying toy after you specifically said, “Don’t throw it!” The toddler isn’t listening. The preschooler isn’t listening. The teenager isn’t...
by Becky Thompson | Apr 8, 2014 | For Mommas, My Life
To the Momma in the dressing room a few doors down: I was already in my own room when you and your daughter came down the hall. I never ran into you after I finished trying on my own clothes. I will never know what you look like. But I have to tell you, I cannot...
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by Becky Thompson | Apr 7, 2014 | Devotionals, For Mommas
The other day, I took on a huge reorganization project. I had just gotten to the part where everything was torn apart and a crazy wreck, (You know, the part just before everything starts to look a little better) when I realized that the laundry was waist deep, the...
by Becky Thompson | Apr 3, 2014 | Devotionals, For Mommas
With the arrival of Spring came new sand for our backyard play area. My kids have spent what seems like every waking hour out there scooping and shoveling and digging. This afternoon, we invited our friends over to play with us. The group quickly abandoned the idea of...
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by Becky Thompson | Apr 3, 2014 | Devotionals
I was on my way into the grocery store the other day (my life seems to revolve around very little other than shopping for food, making food and cleaning food off of dishes and people.) And I walked past a little vending machine with a small Christian magazine inside....
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by Becky Thompson | Mar 28, 2014 | Marriage
When I was in the middle of my first miscarriage, my husband went to the store and bought a new kitchen faucet. Ours had been broken for weeks, and he hadn’t mentioned the idea of fixing it once. But for whatever reason… we left our doctor’s appointment and drove...
by Becky Thompson | Mar 28, 2014 | Infertility & Miscarriage, Most Shared, Trending Issues
Everyone loves a good prank. Well, everyone loves a well-executed, completely harmless, all-in-good-fun prank. What I have seen take place over the last few years on social media sites is none of those things. In the last few years, I have seen an all too common...
by Becky Thompson | Mar 25, 2014 | For Mommas, My Life
Hi. I’m Becky, and before I had kids, I was… Well, I will just be honest. I was kind of awesome. We would have been friends. I was funny. Like – “Man, she’s funny!” funny. Maybe I wasn’t that funny – but at least I had time to laugh. I was very outgoing. There...
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by Becky Thompson | Mar 23, 2014 | For Mommas, My Life
I read an article a few days ago called, “How to Put a Toddler to Bed in 100 Easy Steps.” I laughed so hard that I cried. It got me thinking about all of the other things that were so simple to accomplish before I had two littles (plus another coming in September.)...
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by Becky Thompson | Mar 19, 2014 | Devotionals
by Becky Thompson | Mar 18, 2014 | Marriage, My Life
I married the wrong guy. It was the lie that played over and over in my mind for years. It was the base of every fight. It plagued our disagreements. It promised destruction. But I couldn’t make it go away, and it almost cost us everything. Long before I met my...
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by Becky Thompson | Mar 15, 2014 | Favorite Recipes
1- 1/2 lb round steak ¾ C vegetable oil (divided) 1 C soy sauce [edit] We made this with regualr soy sauce, but next time I will definitely use low sodium. It was very salty! 1 C water 1 C brown sugar [edit] I think I could cut this back to 3/4 C as it was veeery...
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by Becky Thompson | Mar 15, 2014 | For Mommas
That’s it. I’m calling it. It is time to step over the imaginary lines that divide us. It is time to tear down the walls and the alliances and the us-vs-them banners that declare our loyalties. This is my white flag, and I’m calling for an end to all mommy-wars. When...
