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• Oh, Santa...

  by Abigail Maxwell November 27, 2012
  It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas. I got a little over excited this year and decorated the day before Thanksgiving. Well, almost. We got the living room set up and the first tree up. We put up the second tree last night and today, if I ever get my room clean, I'll put up the last tree. Ye...

• Being a Soccer Mom: Not What I Expected

  by Abigail Maxwell November 15, 2012
  Every time I get on here to write, I realize that it's been way too long since my last post. This time I have a legitimate excuse for my absentmindedness and for now, I'll blame it on the holiday season even though I know for a fact that it has absolutely nothing to do with that. Back in Septemb...

• Battle of the Moms

  by Abigail Maxwell October 17, 2012
  When I was pregnant with my oldest daughter, I had a little scare and went to the emergency room. While going over my paperwork with the nurse, she asked what my occupation  was. At the time I wasn't working and told her I was a house wife. She looked me dead in the eye and said, "Home Mak...

• Why It's Ok When Bad Things Happen

  by Abigail Maxwell October 9, 2012
  It's that time of year again. My little boy celebrated his third birthday yesterday. And for the last three years, we have basked in the blessing of being able to celebrate his birthday with him. It is not something that we take lightly. And every year, I have a deeper respect for God and my appreci...

• The Joy of Having a Boy

  by Abigail Maxwell September 24, 2012
  The Joys of Having a Boy   I remember hearing the sonogram technician tell me that I was having a girl. My husband sat next to me and smiled as we found out the sex of our first baby. I started crying. I had really wanted a boy. The poor tech started looking at me like I was crazy and I'm p...

• Passing The Test

  by Abigail Maxwell September 12, 2012
  When my first child was about 2 months old, I knew I wanted another baby. Immediately. I think it took a little longer for the desire to kick in for my husband but still, we were pregnant with baby #2 by the time our daughter was 7 months old. A week after our son was born, he had to return to the h...

• Through My Mother's Eyes

  by Abigail Maxwell September 6, 2012
  One of my earliest memories is of me as a very small child. I don't know if my sister was even born yet but I'm guessing she either was brand new or about to arrive. The memory is of my mom walking into my play room, taking one look around the chaos that I'd created and telling me sternly to clean u...

• Be Still by Lisa Chan: A Review and Giveaway

  by Abigail Maxwell September 3, 2012
  Be Still by Lisa Chan: A Review and Giveaway   Irony rarely makes me smile but right now it does. My last post was about needing a vacation. I was frazzled and tired and quite honestly a little burnt out. I was relying on my own strength, as I so often foolishly do. Later that day, I sa...

• Mommy Needs A Vacation

  by Abigail Maxwell August 16, 2012
  It's been a long day and an even longer week. And it's not even over yet. In fact, even when the weekend comes, although I'll be able to relax a little more and my hubby will be home, I'll still be working. Part of the "motherhood" package. As I sit here writing this, I can see a pile of dishes that...

• Narnia, Middle Earth and other children's fairy tales...

  by Abigail Maxwell July 25, 2012
  Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books as bedtime stories for his children? And that quite a bit of his muses were his wife and kids? While his books are serious but with touches of wonder and beauty, I have to wonder what kinds of dreams his kids had falli...

• Life As We Know It

  by Abigail Maxwell July 20, 2012
  Situations like the recent massacre in Colorado make me wonder what I was thinking by bringing kids into a screwed up world. I'm not trying to make light of the tragedy (my prayers go out for those poor people and their families) but it's not like this is the first time that evil has reared its...

• Play Date Etiquette

  by Abigail Maxwell March 20, 2012
  Playdates can be tons of fun for both the parents and the kids. Or they can be total nightmares for both. On a personal level, I enjoy play dates. Probably as much as, if not more than, the kids do. I've not had a terrible experience, the kids always enjoy it and since I never go on play...

• The Father of My Children

  by Abigail Maxwell March 20, 2012
  Obviously, Monday's are about "Mommy Moments" here at A Wannabe Supermom. However, if it wasn't for my husband, I wouldn't have the three amazing, beautiful children that I have now. Without him, our kids wouldn't be our kids, and they wouldn't be the children that are so much a part of my soul as I...

• 30 Pieces of Advice for Brand New Moms

  by Abigail Maxwell March 12, 2012
  Right now, I have quite a few friends that are pregnant for the very first time. Months (some only weeks) away from being brand spankin new mommies. I remember how much fun it was being pregnant for the first time. I read every stinking thing about pregnancy and births and babies that I could p...

• Monday Mommy Moments: "It's MY turn, Mommy!"

  by Abigail Maxwell March 12, 2012
  I've said it before and this probably wont be the last time I say it: Getting to be a kid all over again is one of the wonderful highlights of being a mom. Today, I had to return a book and pick up a reserved one at the library. I took my oldest daughter with me. I feel that she needs alone time wit...

• Monday Mommy Moments... as only a mother knows them...

  by Abigail Maxwell March 5, 2012
  Very early this morning, at around 1 am (and I'm only calling that morning because technically, in some sick way, it IS part of the A.M.), my oldest, the one with pink eye, woke us up with her terrified screaming. She will be 4 in June and had her very first potty accident. It mortified her. I think...

• My Lent: Part 2

  by Abigail Maxwell February 29, 2012
  It's painful to live in a world, in a country, where watching the news means seeing stories about parents killing or molesting or abusing their children. It's tough to live in a society where sex really doe sell just about anything. It's a battle to live in a world where demonic activity is glorifie...

• Frumpy Franny: Just Another Stereotype about SAHMs

  by Abigail Maxwell February 28, 2012
  I hear a lot of random, but sometimes merited, stereotypes in regards to stay at home moms (SAHMs). The most common one that I hear is that we don't do anything all day. I'm not even going to attempt to defend that one because any stay at home mom reading this knows just as well as I do that we ne...

• Monday Mommy Moments (a poem)

  by Abigail Maxwell February 27, 2012
  I came across this poem today and thought it was appropriate for how I've been feeling about my own children recently. As a mother, I'm constantly fighting battles. Battles with myself, battles of will with my children, battles against what danger the world is and will attack my children with. ...

• Mommy Moments with a Mommy Brain

  by Abigail Maxwell February 13, 2012
  Join me for tonight's Monday Mommy Moments blog hop!!! Click the link below, then click on the "Mommy Moments" button to link up!     Before I had kids, I had a pretty good memory. I would remember faces, names, silly details, appointments, anything and everything. I wrote things down j...