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Me and My Boys. Taken Spring 2012. 

A huge welcome to those coming over from the boy mom blog hop at The M.O.B. Society! I’m a mom of two boys and I’m glad you’re here to visit. For my regular readers, keep going, you might learn something new about me!

My blog, ThePelsers.com, is a shelter for the heart which corresponds with our school name, Havenhart Academy. I open my home to you as an encouraging and inspiring shelter for your heart through stories of faith, motherhood, and homeschooling. You’ll find some technology helps, book clubs, gluten-free helps and much more too. Oh, don’t forget about cute boy pics!

I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart for just over nine years. Josh and I have two boys. Jonathan is 5 and entering 1st grade. Jacob is 20 months and entering… well, creating chaos and destruction in his wake. We are starting our third year of homeschooling.

I’m a former church communications director turned work-at-(home)schooling mom. I have a BA in Bible and a MA in Old Testament Studies. I traded that all in to be home with my boys. I run my own virtual assistant and WordPress maintenance business out of our office/schoolroom. I’m also now an independent distributor for Young Living Oil. Contact me if I can serve you in those areas!

I’ve also written an ebook titled Finding Joy in Depression. It’s my story of facing and living with depression. Special for the boy mom blog hop, I’m offerring you $2 off! Use the code BOYMOM to get the discount. Expires at 11:59:59pm on Friday, July 20.

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Through the summer, I’m teaming up with my friend Kelli at Adventurez in ChildRearing to bring you a series of reflections and link ups on Proverbs 31 as we study along with Good Morning Girls. Get all the details on the study in the kick-off post. Daily discussion is going on in our Proverbs 31 Facebook Group. You’re invited to join us too – just request to be added to the group.

Read other posts in this series:

Week 3 Reflections:
Attitude Check

Here are a few thoughts from my reading this week:

  • Who am I working for? God or man?
  • Work with delight.
  • What’s my perspective?
  • How’s my attitude?
  • Be diligent.

My attitude is important. My attitude affects my whole family. This is especially important for me to remember because I deal with depression. I have to take regular inventory of my attitude and check my focus. I have to focus on joy in the middle of my depression – thus one of the reasons I named my ebook Finding Joy in Depression.

How is your attitude? How have you seen your attitude affect your family? Positive? Negative? Share in the comments and/or link up a blog post. Make sure you go visit Kelli at Adventurez in ChildRearing too! Grab the button code from this page.


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Last week, I announced that my Facebook page was nearing 1,00 likes. I said that if we made it by my birthday, I have something big planned. We crossed the 1,000 mark in just a few hours – a week before my goal. And now the celebration beings. For my birthday, I have lots of gifts for YOU!

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Today, enter to win one of five PDF copies of my ebook Finding Joy in Depression. It’s my story of facing and dealing with depression woven together with facts about and the reality of depression. The second half of the book is all tips for managing depression. This book is for those hiding from their depression and those trying to manage it. But, it’s also for those who want to better understand what someone with depression goes through so they can better support a loved one with depression.

The giveaway ends tonight, 6/1 at 11:59:59 Eastern, so enter now!

I’m also offering a $2 off code on the PDF version. Use BDAY2 to get the ebook for $2.99 through 11:59:59pm on 6/8. Prefer Kindle or Nook? Got those options available too, but sorry, no discount.


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Top Ten Tuesday at Many Little Blessings
Too many times recently I’ve received comments like: I don’t know how you do it all.  You have it all together.  You’re so good.

Wrong.

Wrong.

Wrong.

So let me correct that right now. Let me give you these confessions…

10 Confessions from a

Stay-at-Home(schooling)-Work-at Home-Mom

  1. I don’t clean my house as often or as well as I should.  I’m a fly-lady flunkie.  Twice.
  2. I wear my PJs far longer each day than I’d like to admit.
  3. I allow my kids to wear their PJ’s each day for longer than I’d like to admit.
  4. More often than not, my children can be found running around in t-shirts and underwear/diapers.  Maybe minus the t-shirts.
  5. I yell, scream, and get angry.
  6. I sometimes bribe my kids with fruit snacks.
  7. We watch too much TV; a lot of it is educational, but some is not.
  8. I let my boys play video games.
  9. I deal with depression.
  10. I’m not as consistant some weeks with my Bible study as I’d like to be.

See.  I’m not super-woman.

Confessions are good.  What do you need to confess?  What wrong impressions do you need to clear up?

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I can’t believe this day is finally here:  Finding Joy in Depression is now available!

Get your copy in PDF, Kindle or Nook.

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