Thank you to all of you who have commented on the Sunday post about being at home even when the kids are in school. Let me clarify that if a mom chooses to do something different that doesn’t make her a bad mom–it means that her choices are different than mine. End of story.
Would you do me a favor? Do you know of a mom at home who could use the encouragement of that article? Would you forward it to just one friend who needs at word of encouragement? You can do that by clicking on the title of the post on my blog site and sending the link to a friend. You can also click on “share this” at the bottom of the post and send it to a friend that way, too.
Tonight was “meet the teachers” night at the junior high. With Austin being child #5 to go through junior high, his siblings reputation’s precede him. Luckily the teachers have pretty good memories, for the most part! I love meeting the teachers and establishing relationship with them so we can partner to make it a great year!
The remainder of this week is a little different than usual. I’m traveling to Colorado Springs, Colorado for a day at Focus on the Family on Thursday. We’ll be talking about how Hearts at Home and Focus on the Family can partner together to encourage moms. I’ll also be doing some recording while I’m out there.
On Friday, after a quick stop in Ft. Collins to see some relatives, I’m going to the mountains! I’m traveling with two friends, one who’s never been to the Rockies. We decided to do an extra girls night getaway in a cabin in Allens Park, Colorado which is near Estes Park.
Honestly Mark goes away on weekend getaways with his friends more often than I do (he uses golf as an excuse!) So I’m really looking forward to this little bit of heaven on Friday and Saturday.
So what do you do to get away with some girlfriends on occasion?
Just last month a couple of girls from church and I did a DIY scrapbook retreat. My inlaws have a lakehouse that they let us use and we set up our stuff and scrapped the whole weekend! It was so nice to get the time away together and it was way cheaper than going to a "real" retreat. What a blessing!
Actually, our favorite getaway is the good old Hearts at Home Mom's Conference! For many, MANY years, our Mom's Group loads up a few minivans and caravans down to Bloomington. One year, we wrote on the windows of the vans, "Bloomington or Bust", "Moms rule, Kids drool" and the classic "Moms Rock!" and "We work hard for no money!"
Each year, we are so uplifted by the conference. We share info from the different seminars we attend and we share many laughs at the hotel and when we go out to eat before and after the conference. I cannot tell you how much we look forward to March!
So many of my friends live so far away but the great thing is that we all love doing stuff together as families so we just get together all as one big group. At least we, moms, come together and cook and just enjoy one another's fellowship.
Tell Dr. Dobson, Kat from Heart2Heart says Hi!
Love and Hugs ~ Kat
Me and my girls (8 of us) we have a annual girls trip in March where we leave husband's and babies behind for a weekend of refreshing… We shop a little, talk a lot and eat even more! We also give each other small gifts of our "favorite" things that helped us through the year.
It is such an amazing time and we leave encouraged and motivated to be even better wives, mommies, friends and daughters….
Praying for your meeting and getaway weekend!