Making Me Mommy


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With a little faith and optimism, a desire to adopt, and a single three-letter word, God changed our lives and our hearts forever. Making Me Mommy is about our family’s journey to parenthood, from the pain of infertility to the trial of fostering, the fear of losing a child we had grown to love, and the day-to-day joy that comes from little hands and feet. With not a child in sight, and only halfway through the foster care training to even qualify for opening our home, we stepped out in faith and bought a crib. We readied that baby bed with blankets and stuffed animals, and then prayed nightly for God to fill it. Fill it He did! Over the next six years, four babies occupied that crib and filled our home, and our hearts, with a love you can’t possibly know exists until you love your child.




How Mommy's Love Helped Me Succeed In School?


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This book is about the role and importance of true love to Excellence for All in school and in life. Love, true love, is the most powerful life giving and animating power we all need first and the most if we are to be willing and able to: *be open and receptive to both our external and internal learning worlds. *strive for the very knowledge and skills congruent to our innate talent. *use our knowledge and skills to awaken the positive side of the sleeping giant in us. *re-align what we have to do to what we love to do. *fight for a decent living out of our own inner calling. *live a decent living conductive to more meaning. *step outside our limiting and limiting self in order to be a blessing to someone else.




Taking Care of the Me in Mommy


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As moms we love to serve and nourish our families. But if we don't learn to rest and receive we run on empty and end up not being the moms we so desperately want to be. Taking Care of the ME in Mommy will show you how to take care of yourself: spirit, body, and soul. Find more time in your day Exercise your brain and your body Enjoy friends and hobbies Learn how to incorporate prayer and scripture into your daily routines Filled with practical advice and time-saving tips, you'll feel refreshed, energized, and ready to pour the true you into the ones you love!




No One to Call Me Mommy: A Journey of Hope and Healing Through the Pain of Infertility


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Girls grow up wanting to be mothers. From a very early age, we play and pretend with our dolls. In teenage years, we practice mothering skills while we babysit. Motherhood is one of the crowning glories of being a woman. But what if it doesn't happen for you? You never hear the words, "You're pregnant" or feel life inside of you, and infertility moves in. Infertility is a life-questioning event. It invades the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual being of a woman. Women who face it tend to crawl into a protective, isolative shell. No One to Call Me Mommy provides companionship, strength, and a voice to break through that isolation. It is not a book about infertility; it is a book about hope and healing through the journey.




Teach Me Mommy


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Make Me a Mother


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Relates how the author and her husband adopted a six-month-old boy from South Korea and the lessons they had to learn as parents, including how to incorporate aspects of another culture and how to discuss birth parents with their son.




Don’t Cry for Me Mommy


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Don’t Cry For Me Mommy is about the emotional effects of a mother watching her daughter grow up and go through the different stages of life. With being a mother you become fearful of your daughters experiencing any form of hurt, nervousness or discomfort. We want to always protect them from whatever harm may come their way, but also celebrate their moments of success. This book illustrates a few of those proud moments along with the moments that bring moms great concerns.




Just Mommy and Me


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Just Mommy & Me is about a little boy who takes the reader with him on a typical day in his life with him and his Mom. He walks the reader through his routine from his point of view.




Mommy and Me


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This is the story of a young girl’s life as she lives it in Judenburg, Austria, and how it differs so greatly from our own in America. From a war-torn Austria at the beginning of her life to her experiences growing up in Northern Austria. We follow this young girl as she immigrates to the United States and builds a new life for herself in a foreign place with a new husband and three children to share life’s experiences with.




The Mother God Made Me to Be


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My journey from newlywed, to mother of two, to single mom - trying to heal - and become the mother God made me to be Karen lived an adventurous single life but longed for a family of her own. After years of maintaining her vow of purity and waiting for a man who shared her Christian faith, she fell in love with her best friend and co-worker. They married. She bore two sons. They divorced. With humor, honesty and raw emotion, Valentin tells her story of wrestling between God's will and her own, with visions of happily ever after. In the midst of her weakness and grief, she experiences God's strength and restoration like never before. Through her family and friends, mission workers, the pastor of Graffiti Church, and her two beautiful boys, God turns her ashes to beauty and her sorrow into joy. The Mother God Made Me to Be contains a discussion guide for book clubs and church groups. karenvalentin.com