Makes Me Happy Monday: Linky Love (number 9)

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Sharing a little linky love from around the web.

As a girl mom, this blog post by Jen Wilkin piqued my interest. Great points: On Daughters and Dating: How To Intimidate Suitors. My favorite part: "Instead of intimidating all your daughter’s potential suitors, raise a daughter who intimidates them just fine on her own. Because, you know what’s intimidating? Strength and dignity. Deep faith. Self-assuredness. Wisdom. Kindness. Humility. Industriousness. Those are the bricks that build the wall that withstands the advances of old Slouchy-Pants, whether you ever show up with your Winchester locked and loaded or not. The unsuitable suitor finds nothing more terrifying than a woman who knows her worth to God and to her family."

My latest addiction? The Invisibilia podcast. Fascinating topics, especially The Secret History of Thoughts.

Mom Hides the King's Hawaiian Rolls is one of the cutest commercials I've seen in a long time. I even laughed out loud.

Great teaching on how to distinguish between Promises, Principles, Proverbs and Prophecies...because not every biblical promise is a promise for today.

Highly encouraged by this blog post by John Piper: The Eighth Decade of Life and the Ultimate Purpose of God

A Little Housekeeping...

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Makes Me Happy Monday (number 8)

Sharing a little linky love from around the web to kick off this Monday of Thanksgiving week. 

Too many women have wife aspirations with side chick ways. Hard but necessary truths from Sandra Holton. 

In A Tight Place With Profanity: Hats off to the author for doing something I always want to do in this situation.

Jesus advocates illegal prayers. Good stuff from Bob Sorge: We Have Laws for This Kind of Behavior

What Women Need For Better Bible Study: a short quick video with great points.

Why It May Be Time To Dig  Out Those Old Prophetic Words: I did this recently. We all need reminders of what God has spoken over us through someone.

Six Tips To Lose Weight at Chipotle: Love Chiptole and need to drop a few pounds. Good info. 

As a new girl mom I love this: A Prayer for Our Daughters

And a few Pinterest pins I'm adoring: gingham and leopard? Yes!, and the techie in me is happy about this alarm system. Will be looking into it. 

A Little Housekeeping...

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Makes Me Happy Monday (number 7)

It's finally Fall in SoCal y'all!

And it's Monday! Smile because it's going to be a great week. Here are a few links from around the web that made me smile.

Dad Captures His Daughter’s First Crawl on Camera…Then the Dog Congratulates Her 

12 Ways to Make (And Keep) Friends

Heartbreaking and sweet all at once: Video of father singing ‘Blackbird’ to dying son following wife’s death after childbirth goes viral 

This post was just what my weary momma heart needed. God has given us as mothers, the ability and call to organize and lead our home team to become a unit together–to live fully into our potentials. 

Think this pin will be my next home project. I love quotes and a whole wall of them sounds quite lovely.

And to wrap things up, here's a post from the vaults: Surprises Sometime Come In Bundles of Pink

Makes Me Happy Monday (number 6)

Did you know it's Housewife's Day? No, not those housewives! Apparently, November 3 is the day to honor stay-at-home moms. I've been one so I know how hard it is. Hats off to all the stay-at-home moms of the world.

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Just a few links I ran across this week that made me smile:

Loved this Facebook post from a father showing his 10 year old daughter the consequences of her trying to be older than she is.

Need to get back to gratitude? This challenge is for you then.

Maya Angelou talks about learning to con from her stepfather

Now that I'm a girl mom, this advice is important to me: 5 Ways To Let Girls Know Their Beautiful

Romance still exists...and waiting is always worth it.

And one from the archives: 10 Things I Want My Black Boys to Know.

Makes Me Happy Monday (number 5)

It's Monday. Time to work it!!

Just discovered that Starbucks has a secret menu. It's on now. The Nutella looks yummy. (In fact, there's a whole website dedicated to all things secret about Starbucks.)

Been following the blog of Sarah Danaher, a D.C.-based photographer for a few years now. She gets married this week and shared her engagement story a while back. I laughed, rejoiced with her and was close to tears. Such a sweet and God-honoring post. 

Someone learned how to give the side eye. The teenage years are gonna be a blast.

Need a visual of true love? This couple has been married for 50 years and shows its. Click the link here if the video doesn't appear below

A Little Housekeeping...

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Makes Me Happy Monday (number 4)

It's Monday. Rise and shine!

A few links to share that Made Me Smile

Knowing When It's Time To Surrender the Vision: Sometimes God delivers an on-time word. This article was mine this week "But I’m here to tell you that the answer is not to quit and give up. The answer is to surrender."

How To Talk to Little Girls: As a new mom to a daughter, I found this read very insightful.  And it's actually great advice for anyone dealing with little girls: "engage them about something other than their physical appearance."

Stumbled upon this site called Advanced Style where the blogger takes pics of stylish older people he crosses paths with in the streets. So fun to view. 

Instagram and Self-esteem: interesting read over at Slate. 

Lessons Learned from an 80 Year Old

This weekend I joined the boys for a trip to Sky Zone. It's one of their favorite places. The biggest boy had the most fun. Brought such a smile to my face. Click this link to see the video if it doesn't appear below.

Loose Ends....

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Makes Me Happy Monday (number 3)

"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday." ~Paris Hilton

It's my birthday week! WooHoo. Thursday is my big day! My gift to myself might just be a long, uninterrupted nap.

A few links to share that Made Me Smile

This Teacher Wore The Same Exact Outfit In His Yearbook Photo Every Year For 40 Years

Remember someone is always watching and listening by Sally Clarkson: such a great reminder that we can talk all we want but it's really what our lives are saying that matter the most. Children most certainly learn what they live and see.

Even the smallest detail by Genna Heikka: "But God cares about the little things too. He cares about the details, and he doesn’t want us to hold back from talking to Him just because we think our requests aren’t important enough, or because we might feel selfish for asking."

So You Want A "Boaz", But You Act Like Jezebel by Nehemiah Robinson...ummm yeah...

This is why it's always handy to have chalk with you. Going to buy some chalk immediately. 

I don't get a chance to see many commericals since we have Roku, but this one sent to me by a cousin made me chuckle. Such a genius idea by Evian Water. 

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Makes Me Happy Monday (number 2)

Fall seven times, stand up eight.  ~Japanese Proverb. 

Hello Monday!  Been feeling run over lately but gonna keep standing up. every. single. time!

A few links to share that Made Me Smile

Talk about happiness: a photo of the original cast of Sesame Street.  

As a boy mom, this post "on dating" struck a chord with me. Lots of men don't know to treat women simply because they were not taught. The author says she takes her boys on dates starting at the age of five so they'll know how to behave on a date and how to treat women. Lots of men could have used a mom like this!

Write the Back Cover of Your Life by Jon Acuff. Makes me wonder if how I want to live and be remembered is lining up with how I'm actually living. What would the back cover of your life say?

7 Things You Need When You're Overwhelmed and Can't Keep Up by Ann Voskamp. Her words gave me life this past week:  "Your whole life can feel like you are running for your very life, like you are trying to out run a tsunami of stress. ...the goodness and mercy of God isn’t just following after me placidly. The goodness and mercy of God pursues after me passionately." I'll be feasting on this one for a good little while.

 If you aren't following Lalah Hathaway on Vine you are missing some serious laughs.

Loose ends...

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