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A Full Life

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Our lives with children were often overflowing with activities, helping and nurturing.  Sometimes there was room for little else!

As the nest empties, some breathing space opens up.  You can begin to build in the components of a full life after family life.

What does it look like for you?  An encore career, perhaps. Or travel. You may be thinking through your new purpose in life and excavating passions that suit you.

It is a time of adventure and exploration, for sure!

How estranged mothers can find acceptance and healing 

Reigniting Mom to Live with Purpose and Passion

What does it mean to live with purpose and passion?

A Nest Makeover

Finding your Purpose and Passion: Why it’s important


Focus

The surprising link between mental load and creativity

Minimalist Me

Help! I need a more organized mind

 

 

New Year’s Resolutions: Giving up on pain!

A proven process for effective decision making

What are your excuses? You have none

Garage life, home life

 

10 ways to love yourself more

Finding peace in challenging times

Stuff you oughta know by now, woman!

Create more joy in your life!

Symptoms of Inner Peace



9 productivity hacks: Watch me go from dawdler to do-er

 

 

New Year’s Resolutions: Giving up on pain!

Sports and Outdoors Christmas Gift Guide

Electronics Christmas Gift Guide

Christmas Toy Gift Guide

Christmas Video Gaming Gift Guide

Christmas Beauty Gift Guide for Men and Women

Christmas Technology Gift Guide

More Mom Stuff

7 Things Mom really wants for Mothers Day

Adult Easter Baskets

Being Rudolph

The holly jolly microscope of Christmas

Post holiday blues, or unbridled excitement?

Merriment is Messy!

Father’s Day DIY

A Dozen Easy DIY Halloween Costumes

Valentine’s Day Crafts for Older Kids

Valentine’s Day gifts for your kids

Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Your Man

National Nap Day

Easy Easter Craft: Easter Egg Tree

Father’s Day DIY Gifts

Another fatherless Father’s Day

Pumpkin decorating ideas

Stress-free Halloween party planning

Why do we carve pumpkins?

Easy Thanksgiving crafts for kids

Thankful for my messy, non-Pinworthy life

Easy DIY Thanksgiving Banner

Being grateful

Christmas gift guide for homeschool moms

3 things moms do to mess up Christmas

DIY Christmas kitchen decor

Teach your kids the value of giving this Christmas

A motherless mother on Mother’s Day

Hopes and fears

Starbucks bottle Christmas craft

Holy conversations: Offending or disrespecting

Christmas felt mitten craft for the Uncrafty

Valentine’s Day Ideas for Grown-Ups

How and why the Irish got the brogue

Corned beef and cabbage recipe roundup

5 ways to take care of yourself during stressful times

Christmas gifts for kids you can feel good about: Lego Love

Pause in life’s pleasures

Are you having any fun?

 

 

Cat Humiliation


My not-Pinworthy life: Thankfulness

Thankful for my messy, non-Pinworthy life

Being grateful

Gratitude

Lingering Lovingly

 

 

Mom Life: My baby is 18

Where I come from

One of those days

Missing my mother-in-law: Grandma Rose’s Scraps

Swiftly flow the years

 


 

In the deep

In all things

Wild Grace

Being Rudolph

The holly jolly microscope of Christmas

Loss Leaders

Lullabies and Groaning

Hitherto

God pursues His beloved children

Life and death and everything in between

What’s your fruit?

It is well with my soul

The reason for the hope we have

How are you numbering your days?

Another fatherless Father’s Day

Living between the heartbeats

Journal Bible

All you need is love

Strategies for savoring the sacred

Saying good-bye to my mother-in-love

A pretty face and a stolen Gideon Bible

Hopes and fears

What it looks like near the end


What’s in the drawer?

Big Picture/Little Picture

Hit the refresh button

Defined by Cancer?

Gratitude

Never Changing

 

5 steps to jump start your career



Can you go 5 days phone less?

 

Finding your Purpose and Passion: Beginning to Discern

Finding your Purpose and Passion: Why it’s important

What does it mean to live with purpose and passion?

Top 6 reasons why you haven’t found your passion

Reigniting Mom to Live with Purpose and Passion

 


Finding your Purpose and Passion: Beginning to Discern

Finding your Purpose and Passion: Why it’s important

What does it mean to live with purpose and passion?

Emptying Out

Reigniting Mom to Live with Purpose and Passion

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Hi, I’m Christine

Have you been a wholehearted mother, but time, toddlers and teenagers have moved on? If you are wondering what comes next for you, you’ll feel right at home here.

Or, are you a mom for whom family life has been non-Pinworthy and parenting has been downright painful? I hear ya. There are many of us around.

Are you looking for a life full of exploration and adventure after the nest empties, but maybe you have no idea how to go about doing that? Stick around! We’ll explore adventures together to help you gain more clarity for your own path.

After a couple decades of writing books and articles about parenting, homeschooling and adoption, speaking to homeschoolers and other parent groups, and reaching out to the mom in the trenches who was trying to make the best of it - my kids grew up. Some grew up and grew away. I was determined to find a way out of the pain, emptiness and lack of direction.

For many of us, the journey starts with something we moms are not accustomed to. After years of caring for and serving others, sometimes we forget the beauty and wonder of US. We need to spend some time getting to know the parts of ourselves that have lain dormant, and take the time to explore interests and passions that we set aside.

I’d like to invite you to get the “What’s Next for Mom” workbook and jump into this growing tribe of Moms who are emptying the nest and filling the life! Let’s reignite your Mojo after Mothering!
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At Real Mom Life, my passion is to provide resources and reassurances for moms facing the surprising challenges of family life. In my writing and speaking, I explore solutions to unexpected issues in adoption, homeschooling, special needs, and more while encouraging moms to extract the maximum joy out of each day. Read More…

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