If God brings us to your mind over the next five days, would you pray for stamina and wisdom? Mark and I will be working on the edits of the new Hearts at Home book releasing in March 2010. And drum roll….we have a tentative cover…..
We’re getting excited and we hope you are too!
it looks great! but i know the "fun" of editing something you're very familiar with…hope you get through it quickly, and catch all the mistakes the first time!
Love this book Jill. I will definitely be picking this one up! Perhaps two so I can give one away with so many people that are losing virtually everything they own.
Love and Hugs ~ Kat
I wish I could say I was excited too, but in all honesty, I'm afraid this book will convict me greatly. I love to read your books Jill, so know I'll have to get a copy, but fear this could be a defining read for me. I've had internal conflict for 5 years over the "to work OR not to work" struggle. I'm primarily a stay-at-home mom, but work part time from home, and it has run me ragged. I wish I could find a better balance. I've heard it said before (it might have been you Jill) that we women CAN have it all, just not at the same time. I'm trying to have it all at the same time, but I'm finding that I'm not super woman and it's taking it's total on me and has that awful trickle affect onto my family! Thanks for tackling this topic; I need encouragement from those who have been there!!
Thank you for your honesty, Anonymous. Our hope is to help parents just think about what is most important to them and how to make that a priority. I think you'll love it and it will affirm much of what you are already doing.
I'll definately be prayng!
I can't wait to read it! I just finished Real Moms, Real Jesus recently and really got a lot out of it. I will be going back to that one over and over, I think. Thank you!
oh, yay! i LOVE the cover!
I defenitelly want to read the book and see what it has to say… I've been a stay at home mom for almost 15 years now.. last year I had the opportunity to get into the workforce for the first time after so many years. I had a minimum wage job that was supposed to be part time… I agreed to work more hours so it almost turned onto a full time job. Consequences to that were that I couldn't do the things I usually did with my kids during the summer because I always had to work…. Even though my kids are old enough to stay home by themselfes, I really didn't like the idea of not being part of their summer. I stopped working after about 5 months because we figured that with my minimum wage job all I made went towards food, clothes, gas etc anyways and not much was left after that. Now that I am back to being "mom and housewife" I can schedule my housework around the family events and I am much happier myself. After I stopped working we hardly missed the money I brought in and I could go back to concentrate on keeping the family happy… Enjoy as much time with your family as you can, once the kids are all grown up you will never be able to make up the things you didn't do while they were young…