Blog book tour: Boy-sterous Living
I am a mom of two boys (two girls, too, but this book isn’t about the fairer gender, so I’m not going to mention their antics. To be fair to the boys, my girls have their moments of bizarre behaviour.) These sons of mine – let me show you recent pictures so we’re all clear [...]
September 11, 2009
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Monica Brand · 
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Tags: books, boys, mothering, non-fiction · Posted in: My Boys, Reading
Seen and heard: Mind police?
“Mommy, he’s making fun of me in his head!”
August 28, 2009
· Monica Brand · No Comments
Tags: mothering · Posted in: Living
Book tour: Blue Like Play Dough by Tricia Goyer
Woohoo! Time to giveaway another book. Aren’t you excited? The book: Blue Like Play Dough. Author: Tricia Goyer, whom I happen to follow on that crazy time suck machine Twitter. Trisha is always tweeting mundane bits of her life, how she hates to cook and go to Walmart. Er.. Monica those are your tweets. Tricia [...]
July 30, 2009
· Monica Brand · 3 Comments
Tags: books, christians, home school moms, mothering, non-fiction · Posted in: Reading
Dinner with the fru-fru family
Had dinner at a local casual restaurant last night. Casual as in they supply crayons and a kid’s menu with word puzzles. It could have been fast food and I would’ve been thrilled. Let’s hear an Amen for no cooking, no dishes to wash. The trade off is a public outing with the kids and [...]
July 24, 2009
· Monica Brand · 6 Comments
Tags: family, fun, mothering, the husband · Posted in: Living, Silly stuff
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
· Monica Brand · No Comments
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
