Just a touch of humor… The other day I was trying to get something done – a very small something – and Paul seemed to have set himself the task of hindering me to the best of his abilities. He had to be very close to me, in my lap, touching me, having my full [...]

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Tags: baby, humor, Mothers, selfishness, SPPM

I’m beginning to think that I should have named this blog “Lessons from a Baby” instead; who would have guessed I could learn so many? Yesterday we had a lesson in patience – a 2 hour wait in a doctor’s waiting room. (Is that why they call them that?) Paul, of course, was reasonably good [...]

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Tags: baby, contentment, happiness, selfishness, trust

I was reading a few weeks ago the parable of the sower in the book of Mark chapter 4. 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. [...]

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Tags: Mothers, raising children, selfishness

What is happiness? According to the Miriam-Webster Dictionary it is: 1.obsolete : good fortune : prosperity 2.a: a state of well-being and contentment : joy b: a pleasurable or satisfying experience 3.felicity, aptness In the sense of this post, we mean definition 2a. Unhappiness, therefore, is a lack of well-being or contentment. Oops. Almost gave [...]

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Tags: happiness, Mothers, selfishness