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Mother’s Day Gift Ideas: Perfect for the Hard to Buy For Mom!

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas: Perfect for the Hard to Buy For Mom!

By Marty Walden · Leave a Comment

Ever struggle with finding your mom the perfect present? These Mother’s Day gift ideas are perfect for that hard to buy for favorite mom! Mother’s Day will be celebrated in unique ways around the world this year. Through zoom and Skype calls, FaceTime and lots of selfies. Yes, indeed. This new virus has disrupted every aspect of our lives, from… Read More

Filed Under: Gift Ideas, Mother's Day, parenting

Do You Love Your Adopted Child as Much as Your Biological One?

Do You Love Your Adopted Child as Much as Your Biological One?

By Marty Walden · 24 Comments

In this heart wrenching post, a bio and adoptive mom answers every parent’s question. Do you love your adopted child as much as your biological one? Recently on a Facebook post I received the following comment. I find it difficult to get past the distinctions in your children: my daughter, my grandson (those ones are really yours), my adopted daughter,… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Mother's Day, Motherhood, parenting adult children, RAD, Reactive Attachment Disorder Tagged With: adoption, Family, Parenting

Give Mom the Perfect Gift by using the Five Love Languages

Give Mom the Perfect Gift by using the Five Love Languages

By Marty Walden · Leave a Comment

Does anyone else feel like Mother’s Day is the hardest holiday? Especially if you’re the mom! Torn between being celebrated and honoring your own mother if she’s still alive, sometimes Mother’s Day can be a day of conflict. I celebrated my first Mother’s Day 27 years ago. I know it seems like a cliche, but the years have flown by… Read More

Filed Under: family, Gift Ideas, Lifestyle, Mother's Day, Motherhood, parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: Family, Mother's Day, motherhood, Parenting

What I Really Want for Mother’s Day This Year

What I Really Want for Mother’s Day This Year

By Marty Walden · 5 Comments

Maybe this Mother’s Day you’re feeling a little sentimental like me, or searching for a purpose in those sleepless nights and endless days of diapers and tantrums. Could it be that the teenage years are wearing thin and you’re wondering if anything you’re doing really matters?  Totally unprepared for motherhood 27 years ago, I dove in and have been swimming upstream… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, Lifestyle, Mother's Day, Motherhood, parenting, parenting adult children Tagged With: adoption, Faith, Family, Mother's Day, motherhood, Parenting, Reactive Attachment Disorder

First Mother’s Day Gift Basket

First Mother’s Day Gift Basket

By Marty Walden · Leave a Comment

Disclosure: The post First Mothers Day Gift Basket was sponsored by Expressionery.com but all opinions expressed are my own. I remember my first Mother’s Day like it was yesterday……only it wasn’t. It was 27 years ago.  I was madly in love with this precious bundle of dainty cuteness named Rachel Faith.  I had no idea what I was doing in my newfound… Read More

Filed Under: Crafts, family, Mother's Day, Motherhood, sponsored post Tagged With: crafts, Mother's Day, Sponsored Post

Motherhood: Rewarding and Heartbreaking Journey

Motherhood: Rewarding and Heartbreaking Journey

By Marty Walden · 9 Comments

As I watched my oldest daughter’s journey to motherhood I was grateful to play an active part in her life and now in my precious grandson’s life. From the very beginning Rachel was full of questions and transparency. Did it take you long to get pregnant? Did you have morning sickness when you were pregnant with me? When did you get… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, Lifestyle, Mother's Day, parenting adult children, Reactive Attachment Disorder

Embracing New Motherhood: 5 Things Every New Mom Should Know!

Embracing New Motherhood: 5 Things Every New Mom Should Know!

By Marty Walden · 16 Comments

A seasoned mom of five shares the five life transforming things she wish she had known as a young mom embracing new motherhood. I am walking through a season of life that is new and exciting yet also terrifying. I am no longer “merely” a stay at home mom. I am a work from home, homeschooling mom of teenagers. I… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, homeschooling, Lifestyle, Mother's Day, Motherhood, mothering, parenting adult children, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Simple Gift Sunday, Simple Gift Sunday Tagged With: encouragement, Faith, motherhood, Simple Gift Sunday

Mother’s Day Message for Imperfect Moms

Mother’s Day Message for Imperfect Moms

By Marty Walden · 19 Comments

  When I was pregnant with my first child my husband Tim and I made some parenting decisions that still affect our family today. We wanted to parent our children in such a way that by the time they were teenagers they would be respectful young adults with an open relationship with us that would be built on trust and… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, Mother's Day, Reactive Attachment Disorder Tagged With: Faith, Family, Mother's Day, motherhood, Parenting

Mother’s Day Love for Adoptive Moms

Mother’s Day Love for Adoptive Moms

By Marty Walden · 37 Comments

  For the last three years I have traveled to Orlando, FL, to meet up with some amazing women who are adoptive and foster moms. These women are uniquely drawn together through the bond of parenting wounded children. Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD, and for many of our kids, just one of their diagnoses) is unlike any other parenting… Read More

Filed Under: adopted children, adoption, adoption story, family, mother, Mother's Day, Motherhood, RAD Tagged With: adoption, Mother's Day, motherhood, Simple Gift Sunday

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