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Invitation to Join the Imperfect Mom Confessional Series

Exciting update! The series is here! It’s here! 😀 Come check it out! If you’re interested in adding your own post, leave a comment. There’s always room. 🙂 I am hosting a series in August, September and October called the Imperfect Mom Confessional. The strain of perfectionism is so strong, even among believers. Everyone wants…

Momma, Stop! by James from AllStarDads.net for BusyBeingBlessed.net
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Momma, Stop! {Imperfect Moms Day 0}

    A quick note from Jenn: James is in a blog author Facebook group with me, and when I posted the invitation to join the Imperfect Mom Confessional, he approached me with an offer to blog for me. Since he’s not a mom, I obviously couldn’t have him officially post in the series, so…

Show Me a Perfect Mom
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Show Me a Perfect Mom… {Imperfect Moms Day 1}

    Show me a perfect mom, and you’ll show me someone who’s hiding. Mistakes, pain, shame, guilt, vulnerability, depression, rage, a past…She’s hiding something, I promise you. Not one of us is perfect, even if that’s what we portray. We’ve all been there at one time or another. Feeling way less than perfect. Inadequate….

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He Is My Children’s Heavenly Father {Imperfect Moms Day 2}

When my kids were little, I always kept them close by me whenever we’d go out anywhere.  We’d make a trip to Walmart and if they were not contained in the cart, I constantly had a hand on them.  I’d hold their hands when we walked down the street.  I was momma bear when it…

Comparing Blog Life to Real Life
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Comparing Blog Life with Real Life {Imperfect Moms Day 3}

Okay Homeschooling Mommas…we need to chat. Last week a woman was reading some of my blog posts on Layered Soul and felt like I was one of those amazing homeschooling moms that has it all together. I immediately felt sad because have it all together…I do not. This is a tragedy…when a reader compares blog…

Finding Humor & Meaning in Motherhood {Imperfect Moms Day 4}
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Finding Humor & Meaning in Motherhood {Imperfect Moms Day 4}

There are so many valuable lessons to be learned in motherhood. Among the most important for myself is to find the humor in all the crazy. I really don’t want to be the mom who walks around looking like she’s been weaned on a pickle. Even God’s word says that “A cheerful heart is good…

Imperfect Mom by Tiffany Garza from inGraceAlways.com for BusyBeingBlessed.net
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Imperfect Mom {Imperfect Moms Day 5}

Mamahood is the piecing together of a puzzle. Each piece giving us a bigger picture of Jesus. Of his grace and mercy and love. With each passing season and newly formed stories, our reflection grows closer to his. Embracing the imperfection as a mom is the place in mamahood where transformation takes place and dependence…

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Wanting to Feel Like a Successful Mom {Imperfect Moms Day 6}

There are definitely moments in my days when I feel like a successful mom: The moments when all 4 kids are playing together and all I hear is laughter; the moments when the twins hold hands and walk together; the moments when they say, “Mommy, you are the best!” or when they say, “thank you,”…

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A Call to Action: No More Perfect Moms! {Imperfect Moms Day 7}

    When I got serious about reaching my goal of at least 75 contributors to this Series, I did some hunting. I was originally searching for ideas for images to make for the Series. In doing so, I found some sites that seemed to focus on exactly what I wanted to do. I decided…

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Seven Healthy Ways to Respond to Kids Tattling {Imperfect Moms Day 8}

    My seven and five year old kids fight over the silliest things…and they try to pull me into their battles at the worst times. They expect me to be super-hero-mom and save the day. It doesn’t matter if I’m on the phone, finishing an email, taking hot food out of the oven, driving,…

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Be Still {Imperfect Moms Day 9}

    As a mom of two girls, I hope that they will bring kindness into a world that so often feels dark with hate crimes, poverty, entitled attitudes and war. I just want kindness – for my girls, their friends and our world. And yet I myself have so far to go in being…

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Let them Eat Dirt {Imperfect Moms Day 10}

Last night as I was getting dinner ready, my 19 month old toddled in to the kitchen from outside where she’d been playing with her older siblings, grinning from ear to ear with dirt smudged all across her mouth. I paused for a moment, deciding what to do, shrugged, and kept making supper as an,…

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Perfectly Perfect Imperfection {Imperfect Moms Day 11}

I’ve been accused of being perfect. No, not of perfectionism. I’m almost an anti-perfectionist, if there is such a thing. Perfect. Can you imagine someone actually thinking you are perfect? I was dumbfounded. On top of that, it was an ACCUSATION. I quickly said, “No, I’m definitely NOT perfect. What I’m trying to say is…”…

4 Perfect Ways God Shows Us How to Love Our Children
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4 Perfect Ways God Shows Us How to Love Our Children {Imperfect Moms Day 13}

I’m an imperfect mom in need of heaps of grace. There are many ways this is true and many confessions I could make, but as I was thinking about writing a post for this Imperfect Mom Confessional series, I thought I’d go straight to the source and find out what my eleven-year-old son thought. At…

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Called Blessed and Being Praised {Imperfect Moms Day 14}

    “Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her” Proverbs 31:28. If I listed all of the bad parenting I have done over the years, you would probably be reading this article for so long nothing in your homes would get done. It hurts my heart to even…

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I’m Doing What I’ve Always Wanted to Do, But…{Imperfect Moms Day 15}

    I remember growing up in a rural area, homesteading before it was the thing to do. Back then it wasn’t put forth as a fun and fantastic way to live—it was how we survived. Growing our meat, raising our vegetables, was how we survived on my father’s disability checks from injuries in WWII….

The Ride of Our Lives
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The Ride of Our Lives {Imperfect Moms Day 16}

My confession: I am the controlling mom. At least, I try to be. I am not a Tiger Mother, exactly. I am not standing over my children with a ruler while they practice piano. I just try to plan every single detail of the lives of my children in the future. I have picked out…

Are You Carrying Too Much Emotional Baggage? {Imperfect Moms Day 17}

    On a recent trip to a conference in Boise, Idaho I realized that I had once again fallen into a repeated bad habit. I had packed too many clothes. I knew when I zipped up the piece that I wouldn’t wear half of what I packed (and I didn’t). To compound my frustrations,…

With Apologies to My First-Born: What We Did, and What We Should Have Done Instead {Imperfect Moms Day 18}
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With Apologies to My First-Born: What We Did, and What We Should Have Done Instead {Imperfect Moms Day 18}

Dear Daughter #1, I’m sorry. I really am. I’m sure you have noticed that your father and I do not exactly know what we’re doing. That we figure everything out on you, our lovely, gracious guinea pig. You see, you are our learner child. We’re feeling our way along, using you as our test case. We…

If Today is Boring, Read This
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If Today is Boring, Read This {Imperfect Moms Day 19}

Is today boring? Are things routine and mundane — monotonous, even? Life has plenty of excitement for any parent, both positive and negative, but in between are row upon row of those routine, remind-me-why-I’m-doing-this-again days. This morning during my devotion time I read from Exodus 13, which is copied below. The backstory here is that God’s…

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When the Imperfect Mom Finally Loves Herself {Imperfect Moms Day 20}

    When I started to write this article, I was full of negativity. I hated myself. I disliked how I thought I was being treated by my husband, that my kids were not listening, and I just was down in a deep root of depression. So low, that the swirl of negativity and the…