Brenda Rodgers

Author: Brenda Rodgers

  • When Your Husband Wants You to Work Outside the Home

    My first argument about the whole working moms vs. stay-at-home-moms debate took place with my best friend. We were sixteen years old. Yes, you read that right – 16. I still remember it vividly. We were driving down the road together (obviously one our first driving experiences), and we got into this argument about whether or not we wanted to stay-at-home with our children one day.

    I grew up in a household where staying at home with your children before they were in school was not really a question. Moms just did it. My mom stayed at home with my brother and me until we were in school. Then she worked part-time and eventually went back to work full-time. All of my friends’ moms did the same thing.

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  • How to Receive the Desires of Your Heart Without Giving Up {And a Giveaway}

    Do you think it’s possible for God to honor His promise to give you the desires of heart even though your desire for a husband and family isn’t fulfilled yet?

    This past year I had the opportunity to read and review the book Not Another Dating Book: A Devotional Guide to All Your Relationships by Renee Johnson Fisher. I highly recommend her book to you. It is full of wisdom for relationships and dating, including your relationship with Jesus. You can read my review here.

    Not Another Dating Book

    Today Renee is graciously sharing my new eBook Fall for Him: 25 Challenges from a Recovering Single on her blog.

    She is highlighting chapter five, “Allowing Delight to Change Desires”, and she is hosting a giveaway for 3 books!

    Click over to Renee’s blog and read about how I learned to receive the desires of my heart as a single woman, whose main desire was to be married, without giving up my desire for marriage!

    And be sure to enter the giveaway today!

    Fall for Him: 25 Challenges from a Recovering Single

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  • On Being a Stay-at-Home-Mom When Your Husband Travels :: {Part 2}

    Welcome to our series, Motherhood: More than Meets the Eye, where every Monday until December 18th eight bloggers explore what the world of motherhood truly looks like and how even though each unique, we’re all on a mission! Please join us!

    I’m not a military wife. However, I am a wife with a husband who travels a lot for business. On average, my husband travels once a week for at least a night or two. Sometimes my son and I go with him, but most of the time we’re back home eagerly awaiting his return.

    It is exhausting, often times overwhelming, and always a plea for mercy and grace.

    But you know what? The above is not my biggest challenge. Join Leigh Ann at Intentional By Grace to learn more about her biggest challenge with being a stay-at-home-mom when your husband travels

    Want to read all of the posts in this series? Check them out by clicking here!

     

  • Delivering a Slice of Humble Pie {Our Birth Story Part 3}

    This is Part 3 of our birth story! Be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2 here!

    My husband will emphatically tell you that we will NEVER, EVER do that again! He is all for the “let’s just plan for an epidural” route next time – if there is a next time.

    I half don’t blame him. After I received the epidural it was actually kind of fun. After we napped, with the lights off mind you, we just sat around and talked and even laughed between contractions.

    For the first time I understood why women don’t go the natural route. 

    My eyes were opened. 

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  • Delivering a Slice of Humble Pie {Our Birth Story Part 2}

    This is Part 2 of our birth story. Please read Part 1 here! Tomorrow I will share Part 3 and tell you where I am now in my thoughts on natural childbirth!

    Even though I was going to have to be induced, I did not want Pitocin. I knew it would make a natural birth unbearable with pain, and my plan was still to have a natural, water birth. I received another medication to induce my labor, and so it began.

    I labored in the water. I labored in the bed. I labored on the birthing ball. And I labored some more.

    It was hard. The hardest thing I’ve ever done. And each contraction pushed out a little more of my pride. I was helpless.

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  • Delivering a Slice of Humble Pie {Our Birth Story Part 1}

    This is part 1 of our birth story. Read part 2 here and part 3 here.

    No one can prepare you for some things in life no matter many books, magazine articles or blog posts your read, how many words of wisdom your grandmother, mother, or best friend gives you, or how many times you play and replay the sequence of upcoming events in your mind.

    A smile before it got ugly!

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