Today I threatened my kids with public school and day care. There, I said it. Not my best moment. Or my worst to be honest. I just lost my mind. None of my usual parenting techniques were working. I would sit down with the kids and play with them, get them all settled, and happily playing–then I’d get up…
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To Homeschool or Not to Homeschool? Homeschool has been a hot topic around here over the past few years. My husband has always felt that was our calling as a family–to teach our kids at home, on our own schedule so that we could travel and be independent and not accountable to any institution. But it has never been my…
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Can we all agree that sometimes praying is just hard? I mean it takes a lot of time and brain power–and I, for one, don’t have much of either one to spare. And as it goes–the times during which you need prayer the most are probably the times you slip. Ugh. Please tell me I’m not the only one?! I have this tendency…
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I want to be a modern version of Mary from Luke chapter 10! Do you know the story of Mary and Martha? Luke 10:38-42 in my own words: (Read the actual scripture here) During His travels, Jesus would often stop at Mary and Martha’s house. The two women were sisters, but I’m guessing it was really Martha’s house because she…
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Hey! Welcome to The Modern Mary Blog–I’m glad you landed here!! Since this is my first post, I’ll share a little bit about myself. My name is Ally and I am a 31 year old mommy to three boys: Ethan is 6, Grant is 3, and Joseph is 2. They are 100% boy–always loud, always dirty, and they wrestle constantly–but…
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