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Mommy, Come Home: Your Turn (with a Giveaway)

October 5, 2009

Welcome! If you’re new to The Finer Things in Life, you might like to subscribe for free updates. Subscribe via RSS to read updates in your favorite feed reader, or via email to have new posts delivered directly to your inbox. Thanks for visiting! Gracious. Encouraging. Enthusiastic. That’s you! Thank you, thank you for riding [...]

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Mommy, Come Home: What do You Say?

September 28, 2009

You can read the rest of the Mommy, Come Home series here. If you haven’t seen the look or received the (sometimes) well-intended comments, you will. “You’re so lucky to be at home.” “It must be nice.” How do you respond? Me? Sometimes I really want to launch into a litany of all the material [...]

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Mommy, Come Home: On Purpose

September 22, 2009

The rest of the Mommy, Come Home series can be found here. A few weeks ago I left a comment on AmyLynne’s post about setting up her classroom: I shouldn’t have clicked over here. I loved getting my classroom ready every year. Such promise in a bright, clean classroom! It wasn’t until she replied to [...]

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Mommy, Come Home: Embrace Your Life as MOM

September 16, 2009

Catch up on the Mommy, Come Home series here. I loved my teaching job, and I think I was pretty good at it. The money (as far as teaching jobs go) was good, and I knew I was making a difference in the lives of many, many students. My transition from full-time to part-time-with-baby to [...]

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Mommy, Come Home: Gratitude for the Veteran SAHM

September 1, 2009

You can catch up on the rest of the Mommy, Come Home series here. …By their good example they must teach the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be sensible, chaste, busy at home… Titus 2: 4, 5 Today I am grateful for veteran moms. For all moms who care for the [...]

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Mommy, Come Home: Productivity

August 31, 2009

Catch up on the rest of the Mommy, Come Home series here. Schedule. Routine. Do you have them? Do you embrace them? In my ever-present quest to get organized, I’ve found that having a schedule and following a routine is a lifesaver! As a stay-at-home-mom, though, it’s not only the “we have to be here [...]

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Mommy, Come Home: Stay the Course

August 29, 2009

You can catch up on the Mommy, Come Home series here. I was very excited to hear from these next two ladies. In a season of life I have not yet reached, they shed some light on a topic I’ve been pondering a lot lately: what will I do when my children are all in [...]

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Mommy, Come Home: What Do You Do All Day?

August 18, 2009

**Catch up on the Mommy, Come Home series here.** You’ve decided to make some sacrifices. You’re taking a leap of faith and diving into the world of the Stay at Home Mom. So, what are you going to do all day, every day? Won’t you be bored? {Pause for all SAHMs to get control of [...]

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Mommy, Come Home: What are Your Talents?

August 6, 2009

Even after you’ve taken a Leap of Faith and have decided to embrace a simpler lifestyle to stay home, an extra income may still be necessary. Sometimes it’s not needed for survival, but it’s nice to have a little money just in case or for special treats. When we made the decision for me to [...]

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Mommy, Come Home: A Leap of Faith

July 25, 2009

Catch up on the rest of the Mommy, Come Home series here. Sometimes, you just don’t know. You could crunch the numbers forever. They may never add up even with the most prudent, the most frugal lifestyles. One year after we decided I should be home full-time, a new job in a tiny town with [...]

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