Copyright https://www.ibelieve.com 2023, iBelieve.com Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:51:47 -0500 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/praise-for-the-mom-who-perseveres.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/praise-for-the-mom-who-perseveres.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ You're Not A "Good" Mom... You Persevere! Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:25:41 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/adventures-in-nursing-newborn-twins.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/adventures-in-nursing-newborn-twins.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ I've been breastfeeding these twin girls for 3 months now. Wow! What a wonderful hassle... Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:18:43 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/friends-help-friends-stay-happily-married.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/friends-help-friends-stay-happily-married.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ How I talk to my friends about my husband has a huge impact on how I feel about him and our life together. Do my friends encourage me to stay positive or is "Girls Night Out" just an excuse to complain about our men? How should true friends talk to each other about husbands or marriage? Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:09:54 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/the-first-three-months-with-a-toddler-twins.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/the-first-three-months-with-a-toddler-twins.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ I've been a mama of twins and a toddler for 3 months now, and it's been a blessed bumpy ride. Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:08:16 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/banishing-to-do-choosing-to-be-a-list-of-34-things-in-my-34th-year-happy-birthday-to-me.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/banishing-to-do-choosing-to-be-a-list-of-34-things-in-my-34th-year-happy-birthday-to-me.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ Instead of a TO DO list, I'm focusing on my TO BE list. On my birthday, I'm asking myself, "Who do I want TO BE this year?" Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:53:40 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/tired-mama-in-search-of-sleep.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/tired-mama-in-search-of-sleep.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ These twins are teaching me new things everyday. Like how God can even use their bedtime routine to remind me how I need to invest in relationship, rather than put my faith in rituals... Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:29:00 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/a-crying-crazy-fussy-baby-and-gods-love-for-me-and-a-giveaway.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/a-crying-crazy-fussy-baby-and-gods-love-for-me-and-a-giveaway.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ For the mama of the fussy, crying baby. God bless you. God loves you, and He'll help us love these hard to love little ones. Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:22:35 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/twins-day-a-different-kind-of-birth-story.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/twins-day-a-different-kind-of-birth-story.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ It's not the birth story that so many write about. Beautiful births in water, at home, with low light and deep breaths. It was medical and sterile and surgical. But beautiful just the same. Sun, 27 Oct 2013 16:34:24 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/-twins-day-eve-entering-a-season-of-fasting-aka-new-motherhood.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/-twins-day-eve-entering-a-season-of-fasting-aka-new-motherhood.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ I want to be fueled for new motherhood with every word that comes from God. Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:04:00 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/fear-excitement-anticipating-new-motherhood-the-second-time-around.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/marie-osborne/fear-excitement-anticipating-new-motherhood-the-second-time-around.html Marie Osborne https://www.ibelieve.com/author/marie-osborne/ With my joyful anticipation of the hours of cuddles, comes my great fear of the very real hours of solitary cooking and cleaning and rocking and soothing that I know we are in for. Tue, 22 Oct 2013 01:26:00 -0400 2023-12-28T23:51:47-05:00