Clarity With Charity

Motivation for Mommyhood, Marriage and the Mundane

4 Friday Faves…. Zeke’s Newborn Photos and Fall is Coming!!!!

Woohoo! It’s Friday and we are especially excited for Friday today around here because my brother and sis in law are coming with their kiddos for a visit!!! We definitely don’t get to see them as often as I would like, so I am looking forward to lots of fun cousin time, and girl time and beating my bro at Settlers of Catan #gamenerd #bringitbro.

Last week I started 4 Friday Faves, just a simple and fun list of something I am LOVING, LIKING, made me LAUGH and something that is making me LINGER! I would love to hear anything from your week that falls into the 4 L’s too!

LAUGH: Our HEB (grocery store) just got these cute carts for the kids to push!

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Back 2 School Prayer

Hey! Hey!  Its Back to School Time.  Please tell me its not just me?….  Every year around this time I want to buy myself new pencils, markers, crayons…and maybe a Trapper Keeper… Calling all the children of the 90’s….Anyone else have one of those?  Mine was Lisa Frank and it was AWESOME…nothing was cooler in 1991 than Lisa Frank…NOTHING!!!!!!!  Fortunately I now have kids and so its looks a little less weird for me to be frolicking through the crayon aisle at Target…We definitely bought some new markers, crayons and paint for our home art supplies this weekend.  My kiddos started pre-school for the first time this summer…and although they supply all the school supplies there….bummer…I did get to shop for their back packs and lunch boxes and they aren’t old enough yet to argue with my choice too much.

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4 Friday Faves

Happy Friday!!!!  I hope y’all have had an amazing week!   I know some of y’all have already sent the kiddos back to school or maybe like us you are planning on taking advantage of tax free weekend …are we crazzzzyyyy???  I have actually never gone shopping tax free weekend before!

Today, we are starting a new Friday series.  Its a simple and fun list of  Four Friday Faves.  I’ll be sharing something from the past week that made me Laugh, I Love, I Like and that made me Linger.  And yes, the English nerd in me is loving all the alliteration.  I would love to hear your 4 Friday Faves… leave a comment and let me know how your week was, along with your 4 L’s!

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Hope for the Broken Hearted

“But will I ever feel like myself again?,” she asked me.

Her question startled me, and there I was holding the phone as my brother told me my Dad was dead.  I was grasping my belly, blood in the toilet weeping over my baby, gone….I was in the ER, with a solemn sonographer looking for a heart beat.  I was on the phone with 911, beside my friend who was turning blue experiencing a heart attack.

Her question to me following her own personal loss…it had been my anthem for days, weeks, maybe even years following death, grief, loss… “I just want to feel like myself again” I would think, “I want to laugh without feeling the laughter cut pre-maturely remembering who wasn’t there to laugh with me.  I just wanted to laugh, freely…without looking over my shoulder, frantically scanning my surroundings wondering when the next tragedy or crises would come.  I wanted to go to sleep at night without fear…fear that one of my children would die in the night, fear that something would happen to my husband while he was driving.  I wanted to feel carefree and full of wonder and hope at what may be next instead of dreading each new day.

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My 10 Most Loved Baby Items

Photo Cred:  Tabby Z Photography

Recently I have been asked for some of my must have baby items… I guess having 3 kids makes me a parenting expert now…ya right, I’m just trying to survive until nap time by sneaking bites of my kids piñata candy from the last 3 birthday parties they attended  – p.s. Dear parents, piñata candy is lame…please buy small sized reeses and hersheys and maybe throw in a few Lindor truffles next time for the mommas who need a little pick  me up.

In the spirit of making Mommas lives a little better I want to share with you my 10 most loved baby items.

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How to Develop Your Kids Into Leaders – Part 3

 

Greetings from Toddler/Newborn Land…where everyday I wake up to this question from my 3 year old….”Momma, is your stomach little yet?  Cuz its kind of Big Little.”

Ummm I think you mean medium…and No…NO my stomach is not little again…but before I digress into how my 3 year old needs some training in basic socially acceptable questions to ask 3 week post partum women…we have some unfinished business over here on the blog…

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Ezekiel’s Birth Story

Hey! Guess what!!!!!!!! Since the last time we chatted I had a baby! Wooohoo! The much anticipated arrival of Ezekiel came about 2 weeks ago.

I personally love hearing war birth stories because let’s be real labor and pushing out a baby may be about as close to fighting a war as I get, so I thought I would share mine here.

Ezekiel was induced. My body does this interesting thing where it dialates without being in active labor. I had already been at a 4, without active labor for 2 weeks and my OB was very surprised (as was I) that I had made it to my due date.

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Ezekiel’s Nursery!!!

Alrighty….39 weeks and counting…hopefully by the time you read this I will be  snuggled into my hospital gown, serenely laying on my hospital bed screaming “I WANT AN EPIDURAL!!!”….

Anywho…onto much more wonderful mental images….like Zeke’s cute nursery that we just finished this past weekend.   I always love looking at pictures of nurseries…because they’re just sweet.   However, this isn’t just your typical look at my cute nursery post so you can pin it on pinterest….

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How to Develop your Kids into Leaders – Part 2

Photo Cred:  Arlina Pletcher of The Lighthouse Fine Art Photography

Today we continue our series on Developing Our Kids into Leaders.  If you missed Part 1, Read it Here!

Leadership Principle:  A leader believes in others, and uses their words to encourage and bring out the greatness in others.

We’re potty training Finn #prayforus….you know how it is..its stinky, its messy….unless you have some kind of wonder child you are liable to find out the poop hasn’t made it into the potty in a couple of lovely ways.

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