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Inspiration for Your Weekend & An Announcement

A few weekend links definitely worth checking out:

- just a mom. but not really. @ styleberry blog (so humbled to be mentioned here, truly--thank you!)

- How to Find Diamonds at Summer Camp, While Doing Dishes or in the Middle of the Night @ Inspired to Action

- Lazy Parenting & the Better Late Than Early Philosophy @ Motherhood Your Way 

- Personality Self-Care Plans @ MotherStyles

- Herbal Nurturing: A Family Healing and Learning Guide @ Frugal Granola

- "It Really is Just So Much Easier to Be Who You Are." @ The Happiness Project (Hooray for my boss and sweet friend Tsh on her upcoming book release!)

And the announcement:

Be Inspired by Your Children

Today's post is by Steady Mom contributor Eren of Vintage Chica.
 
All three of my boys play soccer.  The older two, the twins, are on the same team this season – thank goodness!  For the past several seasons we have played in a church league that emphasizes character, teamwork and values.  But the boys are eight now and felt like it was time to join the league to which most of their friends from school belong.
 
I signed then up online and waited to hear back from their coach.  
 
From the beginning it felt like this team was going nowhere fast.  I did not hear back from the soccer league that we had a coach until a few days before the first game.  

Most teams had already been practicing for weeks.  And when I did hear from her, she admitted that she knew NOTHING about soccer and was just one of the boys grandmothers who knew if she didn’t sign as the coach no one else would. (Bless her for that.)  
 
When we did finally get together for practice it was clear this was a “bad news bears” kind of team made up of kids of all sizes, shapes and ability levels.  One kid had flat feet and could barely run.  

She let them pick their own team name and they ended up calling themselves The Furious Kickers…really?  The Furious Kickers?  Is that what you really want to be called?

I'm Bored--Talk Amongst Yourselves (Moms' 30-Minute Blog Challenge)

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I got nothin' ladies--bored of listening to myself ramble on and on so passing the mic over to you. (But you can always check out the top 20, you know--my brain isn't always as mushy as this.)

Link up your 30-minute post below so I can have something to read today! =) Love hearing your words when my own are not flowing...

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Jamie is founder of this spot called Steady Mom, editor of the blog Simple Homeschool, mama to three cute kids born on three different continents, and author of Steady Days: A Journey Toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood.

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The Days Are Long, But the Years Are Short :: No More Babies for Me

Two weeks ago, we gave away the stroller.

It's official--my baby days are over.

Deciding how many children to have is no small feat. For many of us, the choice isn't really a decision--just kind of something that happens (or doesn't happen) throughout the course of a decade or so.

Others of us sat down with a pad or paper and planned in detail when Baby A should come along, when Child #2 should follow, and that we'd conclude with Child #3 or 4.

My story is a little bit different.

Steve and I waited six years into our marriage before having children. Some people think that maybe we had trouble getting pregnant, thus why we turned to adoption. But no, three months after we deciding to give child-making a try, I was happily pregnant with Jonathan.

Neither of us had any plans at that time to adopt or do anything except raise this sweet, sensitive boy we'd been given.

But through a series of amazing events God got our attention. Soon it seemed normal to think, "One child is so typical--let's do something completely crazy and have another one, from the other side of the world, fast!"

So six-month-old Elijah followed from Liberia a year later. Two babies, but was that enough to stop us--heck, no!

Two years later, four-year-old Trishna joined the scene.

Then we finally caught our breaths, looked at each other and said, "Oh wow. This is a lot of work."