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Amy from Occupation: Mommy
Join me as I explore what it means to embrace motherhood as a calling. Let's grow together to be the best mommies we can by sharing our experiences. Get ideas for fun activities and crafts to do with your little ones, celebrate the big events and the everyday moments, and learn along with my four kids and me.
Category Archives: Growing Kids
A visit to Crystal Cave
A couple of weekends ago, we took our kids on a fall drive through beautiful Pennsylvania countryside to Crystal Cave. Audrey and Georgia are always up for an adventure, so they were excited. And Joel just likes to be with … Continue reading
Disciplining toddlers
What do you do when your child looks you in the eye, smiles, and then does exactly what you told him not to do? It’s pretty straightforward when you have a preschooler–time out. Or a child in grade school–take away … Continue reading
Grow
Every Friday, I write for five minutes. No editing, no overthinking. This week’s topic is “Grow.” Some days I notice that one of my little ones has grown. Sometimes it seems like they grow all at once at night, while … Continue reading
Posted in 5 Minute Friday, Audrey, Growing Kids, Meditations
Tagged 5 minute Friday, growing up
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Operation Christmas Child
There’s a great way to help children understand the importance of sharing what we have with those less fortunate, especially at Christmas time. For years, our family has packed shoeboxes with gifts for Operation Christmas Child to distribute to needy … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrations, Christmas, Growing Kids
Tagged charity, Christmas, Operation Christmas Child, shoebox gifts, teaching charity
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It’s rest time
It was so easy to have time to myself when Audrey was little. After she gave up napping, around three years old, I instituted a “rest time” policy. Every afternoon while baby Georgia (the best napper EVER) slept, Audrey had … Continue reading
Posted in Preschoolers, Sydney
Tagged activities for preschool, preschool kids, quiet time, rest time
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Having a little girl’s ears pierced
People have many different ideas about when to pierce little girls’ ears. I have several friends who have had their infant daughters’ ears pierced, and others who will make their daughters wait until a certain age. I got my ears … Continue reading
How to cut a baby boy’s hair
Joel needed a hair cut. His hair was growing over his ears and over his eyebrows. In the back, it was long enough to put a ponytail in, if I would’ve been so inclined. But I had no idea how … Continue reading
It wasn’t my fault this time
This evening, after Joel and Sydney were in bed, Audrey told me that one of her molars was loose. In our house, loose teeth are no longer a big exciting piece of news. Instead, I start dreading the four-stanza poem … Continue reading
Playing outside
Confession: I hate playing outside with my kids. It’s too hot (or cold), to sunny (or cloudy), I’m being eaten alive by mosquitoes. We have to put on greasy sunblock, they’re getting sand in their hair, Joel is eating sticks, … Continue reading
Learning to walk
It’s pretty amazing to think that a baby can be a helpless little creature, dependent on adults for food, entertainment, and comfort, and just a few months later can be a moving little person with a full personality. Joel, 14 … Continue reading
