Life with the Jobes
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
we have moved
:)
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
update on times
No crawling yet, just scooting backwards. Turner is NOT in a hurry like Colden was, but he is ready to crawl I think. He is starting to get frustrated not being able to GO! Those boys are so cute, and I am highly favored for them being given to me!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Five Down
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Why do you have your Christmas tree up so early?
Thursday, November 17, 2011
going deeper
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
10
Point Manifesto for Joyful Parenting
(any text in turquoise links to posts for more explanation & encouragement)::
1. Today, I will make our home a house of prayer. I will pray at set times. And I will invite our children to come move into an interior space that lives with God.
2. Today, I will transfigure all things into beauty, and I will refuse to see anything else.
3. Today, I will not have any emergencies. There are no emergencies!Only amateurs hurry.
4. Today, when stress mounts, I pray to dismount it with gratitude.My stress management plan will be intervention with verbal thanks. I can only feel one feeling at a time, and I choose to give thanks at all times. Fight feeling with feeling!
5. Today, I will pray to speak words that are only STRONG words, words that make these children feel strong. Grace words. Grace is the only non-toxic air. All other words I breathe are death words.
6. Today, I will pray to be consistently consistent. I will create safe rhythms that our children can find security in. I will create daily ceremonies because everyday we are CELEBRATING the gift of now!
7. Today, the moment when I am most repelled by a child’s behavior, that is my sign to draw the very closest to that child.
8. Today, I will hug each of my children as many times as I serve them meals — because children’s hearts feed on touch. I’ll look for as many opportunities to touch my children today as possible — the taller they are, the more so.
9. Today, my priorities will be all Things Unseen.
10. Today, I will laugh! And I will let the little children laugh! I will create a