Thoughts coming soon…

~Kendra

I do know that it’s time for a portrayal of a functional family on tv, and this was the family’s objective in pitching the show to MTV. Other networks rejected the idea because they weren’t dysfunctional…

Perhaps it’s a mission of their family? Perhaps it’s not a lot different than a family putting their kids in a dangerous environment on the mission field?

It’s a good question.

I love your site. I love how real you are & desire so greatly to share the love of the Lord through this journey of parenthood. I read your last post & your admitting you don’t have all the answers. I am hoping the Lord will grace you with an answer for me, because I desperately need one. I am a mom on preschoolers, 3 of them, and have no joy. Or peace for that matter. Let me preface my question with a little bit of information. As I mentioned I have 3 preschoolers. Emma turned 4 in November, Nathanael will be 3 this week & Maggie turned 1 in October. My husband is an active duty Marine & is currently deployed for the 3rd time in 3 years. By the time my husband returns home in late March we will have been in our current location for slightly less than 4 years, he’s been gone for slightly over 2 of them. I homeschool, love the MOTH principles, love my children & most importantly love the Lord. Somewhere in the midst of potty training, teething, weeks on end of sick children, correction, training, more correction, I’ve lost my joy. Plain and simple. I can’t play there’s always a million things to do and to be honest I don’t want to. I feel like one really long showing of the movie Groundhog Day. My kids know it too. How many more times will they have to tolerate the mommy got angry/please forgive my cycle? I have no family support close by & the majority of my friends are going through similar situations. I just want my children to know that I think they are terrific but somehow it gets lost in the translation of “stop playing at the dinner table,” “stop fighting”, “speak kindly”, “you may not hit”. So all of that to so simply ask how do I find my joy in parenting, for my childrens sake as well as my own. I realize I’m asking a tall order, asking you to answer a question I can’t even answer myself.