Wow, what a weekend. I was able, thanks to the generous help of my sweet Curty and Mom and Eddie, to attend a weekend conference called Hearts at Home. Wow what a mom weekend. Basically it is a conference with the focus to re-energize, re-fresh, entertain, and educate mom's. May I say, job well done Heart at Home.
Thank you Jodi Yaley, for convincing me to go to my first conference. What a great joy you introduced me to. Thanks for the girls that I was able to spend time with at this conference: Natalie, Lisa, Tara, and Cherie, what fun you girls are. Thank you Mom and Eddie, for keeping Michael and giving him such a great weekend, it makes it easy to go away when there are no worries about my child. And most of all, thank you Curtis. You are the best husband and friend. You are so supportive and giving to me and always put my needs and wants at the top of your list. I hope that I do the same for you, although sometimes I don't see how I could ever match the many gifts and amount of love you have poured out onto me. Thank you for going with me this weekend to stay with Adah at a hotel and bring her to me whenever she needed to nurse. You consistently go above and beyond.
I went to 8 different classes while there and was inspired by each. I had a woman ask if my brain was melting with too much information, but the opposite was true. I was excited by each and amazed at how no matter how different they all seemed, they all dovetailed in my brain. Of course, each speaker I heard had written at least one book. I told Curtis after the first day that I could spend $1000 in the resource store, and I stand by it. I didn't spend that much, unfortunately he cut that budget dramatically. (Thank you debt snowball and Dave Ramsey - maybe in a few years I will be able to buy all the books I want - maybe I will have learned better self control - :) who knows which)
I did however buy four books, completely different from each other in theme and can't wait to get into them and use them in my life. There are things I want to take away from each: organization, mom skills, spiritual growth, and a stronger marriage. So I thought that maybe there are others who would like to read with me. Are there mom's who read out there who cannot commit to a weekly book group or a Bible study, but would like to just read a book with some support and encouragement from other mom's who read. This is a low pressure idea, but if you want to join my quest to read these books and make some changes in life, let me know and maybe we can do it together. Having a partner in these kind of things is always a good incentive for me. I am good with ideas and sometimes just terrible with the follow through. You should see all the great books on my book shelf that are just waiting for my renewed inspiration, passion, whatever it is that makes you actually pull one from the shelf, dust it off, open it up, and start reading and stick with it until it has either bored you to death or you have finished it. Maybe I will even get on a roll and finish the books I bought the first time I went to a Hearts conference nearly two years ago.
Mom's who read - UNITE!!
