Archive for the ‘True confessions’ Category
Yet more thoughts on contentment
Thanks for the encouraging words this week, friends. It’s nice fantastic that so many of you would miss my contribution to the blogosphere if I were to drop out. Thank you. I’ve been thinking more about it and here’s what I’ve come up with: my problem isn’t blog influence, it’s me and mothering (Or mothering [...]
June 11, 2009
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Monica Brand · 
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Tags: me, more than you need to know, mothering · Posted in: Living, Thinking, True confessions, Women's issues
Surfing contentment: confessions of a Christian mommyblogger
I keep trying to write this post explaining my thoughts about why I would consider deleting the past four years, but it’s been so difficult not to not sound like a whiner. Let me see if I can do this without the Internal Editor. Contentment. I’m not too good with all the verses telling us [...]
June 5, 2009
· Monica Brand · 3 Comments
Tags: blogkeeping, me, more than you need to know, mothering · Posted in: Believing, Blogging, True confessions, Writing
My fake heart attack
It all started with a pain in my right arm. A sharp little stabbing like an imaginary nurse stuck me with with a needle. I rubbed it, fussed over it. I remember thinking, “Could this be a heart attack?” Looking back now, I believe that thought sent me on the path for all that happened [...]
May 5, 2009
· Monica Brand · 13 Comments
Tags: dying, fear, Jesus Christ, me, more than you need to know, Twitter · Posted in: Believing, True confessions
Burned out on technology that teaches
It’s Wednesday night – Family Night at church -Â and I’m looking for any excuse not to go. Book of Revelation. Good, meaty theology there. But I still don’t want to go to Bible study tonight and it’s nothing against John or end times prophesy. It’s the DVDs. Not the message – the method. I’m [...]
April 30, 2009
· Monica Brand · 9 Comments
Tags: Bible, modern church, technology · Posted in: Believing, True confessions
Do you have a bucket list?
So. I’m 40 years old now. 40. I’ve been mulling over this number, and what it means, all day. Like I said before, I don’t feel 40, an age I thought ancient many years ago. Now it’s just a number that comes after 39. Part of all this reflection has to do with death, my [...]
April 28, 2009
· Monica Brand · 6 Comments
Tags: me, more than you want to know · Posted in: Living, True confessions
Homeschooling mom, meet my friend, Mercy
As a home schooling mom, I know my weaknesses. I’m far from that do-it-all woman who seems to glide through life with ease. I’m unorganized. I get mad, lashing out in anger. Home schooling revealed that in me. I know a lot about learning styles, curriculum and how to teach phonics, but I find I’m [...]
April 2, 2009
· Monica Brand · 4 Comments
Tags: home schooling, me, more than you need to know, mothering · Posted in: Believing, Home schooling, True confessions
