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November 13, 2017
Alex Kuykendall Loving Actual Christmas
Let Love Be The Loudest Voice
I turned my shopping cart down the next aisle and felt a familiar tension creep into my neck. The trees, lights, wreaths, ornament...
November 9, 2017
The Star Christmas Movie Banner
Stewarding The Story
Kids and The Christmas Story Christmas and kids were made for each other. The main attraction in the story is a baby surrounded...
November 8, 2017
10 Ways to Love A Mom Well MOPS Blog Membership Drive
10 Ways to Love a Mom Well
As moms, some of our most isolating and lonely moments have been in the middle of the night nursing the baby, in the grocery story...
November 6, 2017
f word filter Aubrey Sampson
Filter Your “F-words”
I was about to leave the house for a One Direction concert (don’t judge me). My husband was scheduled to come home from work a cou...
November 3, 2017
prejudices in my path MOPS blog
Those People
The nearly unthinkable happened last month: my 15-year-old went on his first date! We were out shopping for a new button-down dres...
November 1, 2017
Motherhood Unites Us
One of our favorite things about our MOPS family is that each of us has a different story, and a different set of hopes, dreams an...
October 30, 2017
Mother Tongue
Ever since I became a mom, I developed what I refer to as a mother tongue. I call every kid that enters my house, “Love,” I utter ...
October 27, 2017
The Truth About Sexual Intimacy
My husband, Jason, and I have a complicated history with sexual intimacy – betrayal on his part and an eating disorder on mine. Of...
October 25, 2017
Threads of Commonality
Symbolically, the heart has long been identified as the center of the body. It holds wisdom, reason, emotion. Islam, Judaism and C...
October 23, 2017
Starring Sick Mom
Modern medicine didn't cure me.  Treatment followed a few years after I was diagnosed, but instead of turning me back into a healt...