Finding Joy in Motherhood, Janet Quinlan

What is happiness?  From the wisdom of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang, happiness is a warm puppy, or a warm blanket.  Happiness is having a friend, or 3 friends in a sandbox with no fighting.  Happiness is family How do you define happiness in your motherhood? Is it having a little or a lot more money than you need to pay the bills? Will you find happiness after you lose 20 lbs?              ...

When we’re in the thick of things - eyeball deep in motherhood - we can easily lose our perspective and question whether it’s worth it. Is my day to day challenge of parenting - of teaching them how to be virtuous, responsible, happy adults failing? Is anything getting through or am I just wasting my time, my energy, and my breadth?  Be encouraged!  What you’re doing in your parenting is getting t...

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Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Before we buy into schedules, routines, and habits to keep order, we have to consider WHY we want and need order. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

 Order in the home creates a home that is bright, cheerful and full of joy – lifting the tone rather than a heavy wet blanket destroying the joy. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Have you ever considered that God has chosen you for a specific mission? Often we think of specific missions from God as religious call or a big splash in the world. But God is calling each one of us in the circumstances of our daily lives to go and bear fruit. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @ja...

Your mindset controls your life - but you can control your mindset. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

If we don’t see our own children as precious and gifts from God, then we contribute to a culture that believes children are expendable.  Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Here are some thoughts on why we decided to homeschool, and the benefits of creating a learning environment - whether your children are home or in a traditional school.   Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

It is a process.  To Love AS Jesus loved, to forgive AS Jesus forgives, to identified with Christ a little more each day. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Our main job, as mothers, is to get our children to heaven. We fulfill this important mission by introducing our children to their best friend, Jesus.  We nurture a friendship between Jesus and our children by instilling a deepening love for Him through many aspects in our day and in the mindset with which we approach Jesus. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and...

Like a soldier ready for the battlefield -and what mom doesn’t sometimes feel like life is a battlefield – when I get up promptly I am ready for the day in so many ways! Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

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No matter how hard we try to control things, we obviously can’t.   So how do we live our lives without worrying? Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Your exterior life is a direct reflection of your interior life.  Want to be free of stress and overwhelm?  Listen to this quick reflection for the answer! Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Why can some people make the decision to lose 100 lbs – and they do it, while many others struggle year after year? Why can some people make the decision to run a ½ marathon and actually do it? Why do some people have homes that you can walk in anytime day or night and it will be clean, uncluttered, and cheerful while others would be mortified if you dropped in? Why do some people have children wh...

People cannot live without hope.  The question is, where do we find it? Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

True generosity is a gift of self.  People feel it.  People appreciate it.  We become a better version of ourselves when we’re cultivating a generous spirit within.   By increasing our own generosity, we'll naturally model it for our children.  Is there anything sweeter than watching your child be generous to another? Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and fa...

In this episode, I’d like to convince you that the flood of negative/overwhelming emotions about Christmas does not have to define the season.  I’d also like to give you some strategies that will take the chaos out of the season and actually help you enjoy Christmas! Click here for the free PDF Planner schedule that goes along with this episode. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting,...