It’s the beginning of February, and if you live in the northern hemisphere and you’re anything like me, you’ve just slipped into the doldrums of a dreary winter where patience runs thin and tempers run high.
You’ve been sanitizing kitchen counters and toilet seats after weeks of circulating germs, and right about now you’d give anything for a breath of fresh air. Or maybe a mocha Frappuccino.
Well, I’ve brought you a breath of fresh air for this week’s Five Minute Friday post.
It’s my great privilege to welcome Five Minute Friday founder, Lisa-Jo Baker, to the blog this week!
She has an exciting announcement to share with all of us, and I’m so glad she’s here!
In honor of our special guest, this week’s Five Minute Friday prompt is:
Here’s Lisa-Jo:
A Note from Lisa-Jo Baker
If you’ve been following my blog for any time at all then you know that I’ve spent the past DECADE trying to tame the temper I didn’t know I had before I became a mom.
Because it didn’t make sense that I could simultaneously love my tiny humans like nothing else on earth while also feeling like nothing else could make my head want to explode in quite the same way. It stunned me to one day find myself nose-to-nose with a six year old screaming my lungs out.
What kind of mother feels like that? A bad one, I told myself. I was sure I must be a bad mom because I was capable of a kind of rage that scared me.
What I’ve learned is that we are NOT bad moms!
[Tweet “”Having a bad day doesn’t make you a bad mom.” ~@lisajobaker”]
We are good moms, we are normal human beings dealing with abnormal circumstances (sleep deprivation, zero privacy or personal space or alone time) and what we don’t need is more guilt! What we need are the tools to help get us through.
The blog posts I’ve written about my struggle with my temper have been my most highly read and shared posts. And the ones I get the most email about and the most speaking invitations to teach on. I hear you sisters — the struggle with mom temper is real!
So I’ve finally done something I’ve wanted to do for YEARS!
I’ve packaged up everything I’ve learned about my mom temper (the hard way) over the last decade of parenting and everything I teach at my workshops so that you can put it into practice in your own homes.
And I’m calling it The Temper Toolkit.
The Temper Toolkit is a labor of love from me to you — a collection of practical strategies, honest stories, and Biblical resources from one mom to another to help you take control of your temper BEFORE you lose it.
[Tweet “Check out this brand new resource from @lisajobaker! Only available for a limited time!”]
All for the cost of one exhausted drive-through dinner with the kids after a day of meltdowns.
Just click here to get access to The Temper Toolkit!
In this together!
Lisa-Jo
NOTE: The Temper Toolkit is only available through Monday, February 6th, so act fast!
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Such an honor to get to spend some time with one of my favorite communities on the web!!
Lisa, as I read your post, I was thinking I should have posted pictures of Hawaii rather than today’s hoarfrost for my post’s pictures. 🙂 Yes, we need to breathe. Breathe in. Breathe out. I’m so thankful that each day God’s mercies are new. On those hard-momming days, when I wish I could have about ten do-overs, I find hope in knowing tomorrow is a new day, with only God’s fingerprints on it.And His presence ready to meet me and help me.
Thank you for sharing your words!
I have come to love Lisa-Jo…a lot. A real live struggling woman who shares that struggle with all of us. Will this package help with political anger issues? I’m no longer the mom or grandmom of littles but I’ve been known to throw my iPad across the bed in frustration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is not a mom anywhere who could not use a toolkit at some point in time. Sounds like the perfect resource – one I wish had been available when my own were home with me. May God use it greatly!
Yes! Yes! It’s so refreshing to hear I am not alone in the struggle to tame my temper. Thank you, Lisa-Jo for your honest and beautiful post.
Lisa-Jo, it’s me, the spatula-disaster lady from IG 😉 lol So thankful for your words this week (as you know) and I have shared this great kit offer with so many of my mom-friends, because, well, life. Anything that helps us know we’re not ever meant to be perfect, and have it all together, but still gives us the tools to cope is an amazing gift! Praying homes are blessed by your words, resources, and testimony!!! A thousand thank yous! xxoo
Way to go Lisa Jo! Too many Moms get down on themselves … needlessly. Stop. Breathe. God is in control!
Thank you for the raw honesty here. Secretly, we, as a community of sisters, look at each other wishing we could somehow possess that secret superpower that “they” have. The one that appears to breathe calmness into all of their interactions. Yet, truthfully, we all struggle in some way. The irony is that we tend to let our wrath out to the ones whom we love the most because we aren’t afraid of abandonment in the face of our darkness. I am thankful for a Gracious God whose mercies are new every morning. Every. Morning. I’m at spot # 80 at FMF.