Saved by Grace Alone

Being a Mom is hard!  Watching someone else be an "AMAZING" Mom on television makes being a Mom even HARDER! I love Michelle Duggar but dang, she made me feel like an absolute failure when it came to my own mothering skills.  Where Michelle D. is soft spoken, I am LOUD!  Where Michelle D. seems to have everything in control, my life can be total and absolute chaos! And I only have 4 children...and there are time I want to scream and run away...yes, I said it.  I am not a perfect Mom.  No part of my parenting would probably earn an award in the Mommy Olympics.  I have good days, I have bad days, I have REALLY bad days!  But I do love my kids!  With every last ounce of my being.  But what does that mean? That means I have days where the children have bickered and fought and taken each other's stuff and bickered...yeah and I finally LOSE IT after asking them a million times to CUT IT OUT!  Yes, you guessed it...I yell!  I mean I YELL!!!!   There are days when I can a

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