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    Lessons in Loving Littles
    Lessons in Loving Littles
    Lessons in Loving Littles
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    Lessons in Loving Littles

    By Heather Fallis

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    Raising little people is one of the toughest jobs on earth. Between the mess and the chaos of loving and teaching our kids, it's hard to find time to learn and grow ourselves. We can feel like we are trapped in a never-ending cycle of wiping boogers and washing clothes. But what if we are actually supposed to be learning from our littles? What if the lessons we so desperately need to hear aren't found in self-help books and seminars and Sunday Schools, but in the ordinary, every-day tending to our children?

    In "Lessons In Loving Littles", mothers of young children will find that you can learn extraordinary things through ordinary life. When we take time to slow down and listen, we will find God is speaking through the spills, tantrums and training wheels. Find the beauty in motherhood when you embrace this season of loving littles. Authored by the mommy-blogger from www.confessionsofanhonestmom.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHeather Fallis
    Release dateFeb 1, 2016
    ISBN9781310167768
    Lessons in Loving Littles
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    Heather Fallis

    Heather Fallis and her husband, Derick, are blessed to be the parents to three amazing littles- Zoey, Kylie and Josiah. Heather is currently a homeschool mom living overseas, working to serve the lost and forgotten of Southeast Asia through compassion efforts and teaching English to impoverished students. She also has two blogs she *tries* to keep up with when she isn’t tending to her own littles- her motherhood blog at www.confessionsofanhonestmom.com and their family’s blog about life overseas at www.fallisfivesasianadventure.com. Heather loves Jesus, her family, good coffee, Asian food, laughter, writing and pancakes

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      Book preview

      Lessons in Loving Littles - Heather Fallis

      Lessons in Loving Littles

      Learning About Life Through Motherhood

      By Heather Fallis

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2016 Heather Fallis

      For the three littles who have taught me so much about life, love, and joy in the midst of chaos-

      Zoey, Kylie and Josiah-

      I know The Father better because I am your mother. I love you.

      Table of Contents

      First Things First

      1- Hangry: Nourishing Ourselves

      2- Blankets: Finding Comfort in the Comforter

      3- Sippy Cups: Finding Purpose in the Every Day

      4- Imperfections: Growing in Discipline

      5- Lucky Charms: Waiting on God’s Goodness

      6- Dirty Bathrooms: Maintaining a Healthy Life

      7- Meltdowns: Releasing Stress

      8- Tired: Finding Hope in Exhaustion

      9- Girlfriends: Celebrating Friendship and Each Other

      10- Invisible: Knowing You are Seen and Loved

      11- Training Wheels: Finding the Adventure You Were Created For

      12- Bite Marks: Forgiving Those Who Hurt You

      13- Square Pegs: Embracing Our Children in Their Uniqueness

      14- Discipleship: Examining Our Responsibility in Spiritual Formation

      15- Motherhood: Surviving the Joy and Sorrow

      16- Grace: Extending Grace to Our Children

      17- One Day: Preparing to Let Our Littles Fly

      About the Author

      First Things First…

      I am not a parenting expert. There, I said it. As I sit here typing this, I currently have a nine, seven and five-year-old. I have been a parent for almost a decade (what the what?!) and most days I still feel like I know as little…or less…as I did when I began my motherhood journey almost 10 years ago. Friends, this gig is HARD. But it is also beautiful, and I want so desperately for other moms to see the beauty that I have found when I have slowed down long enough to let God speak to me and teach me through loving my littles.

      In my time as a mother, I have been a working mom, a stay-at-home mom, an adoptive mom, a homeschool mom, a ministry mom, and most recently, a mom raising littles in a foreign country. I have also been a tired mom, a stressed mom, a worried mom, an insecure mom and a mom desperately looking for a lifeline in the mist of raising these tiny humans. I am thankful for the moms I have been privileged enough to journey with through this season of loving littles. Through transparent friendships, I realized that I was not alone, and that there was much purpose in this season where I often felt like I was just treading water. Through taking the time to really lean into life with my littles and embrace it for what it is, I have learned so much about life through my precious babes.

      This book is simply a collection of writings, lessons, thoughts and musings that I have compiled from over the past 5 or so years of blogging on multiple sites (hence the different ages of my kids in certain chapters), plus a few new pieces I wrote specifically for this book. I wanted to compile it all in a format that would be easy to share with others in order to be a blessing and encouragement to moms in the middle of raising little ones. If this book has found its way into your hands, I can’t promise that you will walk away a profoundly different person after you read this, but perhaps you will feel a spark of hope ignited in your heart knowing that SOMEONE GETS IT and that there truly is beauty in the messiness of motherhood. So grab a cup of coffee, curl up in your favorite spot, let your guard down and let’s see what kinds of extraordinary things God can teach us through the ordinary business of LOVING LITTLES.

      Hangry

      So, maybe it’s just me, but I feel like my kids eat all stinking day long. We can literally get up from the table, having just eaten a meal, and not five minutes later someone is saying, I’m hungry! I can’t tell you how many times I have gone grocery shopping, and just a day or two later, we already have empty containers and boxes because LITTLES EAT EVERYTHING. My husband and I have a locked filing cabinet with a drawer where we keep our secret stash of sweets because, heaven knows, if the kids knew where they were, they would be gone in .05 seconds.

      My littlest is usually still in the process of scarfing down his lunch or dinner and with cheeks full of food will ask, Is this enough to have something else? Seriously, kid? You still have food in your mouth and on your plate and you’re already thinking about what

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