Download or read book Temporary Mom written by Bess Lewis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I still can describe to you my fairytale emotions that I had about fostering and adoption. We were going to rescue abused children, provide them a home, love on them, adopt them and then go on with our normal American lives! I could quote all the Bible verses on delivering the fatherless, recite happy adoption stories, and believed our own story of adoption would be just around the corner. But, two and half years later in our fostering journey, we would continue to struggle to obtain the foster children's permanent placement which seemed like an unending battle. "The goal remains the same," the judge would pronounce, "return home." This 'home' was a place that our foster children no longer knew or recognized even if it was with their birth dad. How could God allow this? How could God remove the foster children from our secure and loving home and place them in the midst of insecurities and chaos? How could God allow bad things to happen to us when we were doing exactly what He told us to do? This is a story about the ins and outs of fostering and how God uses every event for his glory - in his way. For he is constantly using our temporary moments for his eternal story. 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV) So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Download or read book Mothers Before written by Edan Lepucki and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was your mother before she was a mother? Essays and photos from Brit Bennett, Jennifer Egan, Danzy Senna, Laura Lippman, Jia Tolentino, and many more. In this remarkable collection, New York Times–bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki gathers more than sixty original essays and favorite photographs to explore this question. The daughters in Mothers Before are writers and poets, artists and teachers, and the images and stories they share reveal the lives of women in ways that are vulnerable and true, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always moving. Contributors include: Brit Bennett * Jennine Capó Crucet * Jennifer Egan * Angela Garbes * Annabeth Gish * Alison Roman * Lisa See * Danzy Senna * Dana Spiotta * Lan Samantha Chang * Laura Lippman * Jia Tolentino * Tiffany Nguyen * Charmaine Craig * Maya Ramakrishnan * Eirene Donohue * and many others

Download or read book Bikini Ready Moms written by Lynn O'Brien Hallstein and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) The requirements of "good" motherhood used to primarily involve the care of children, but now contemporary mothers are also pressured to become bikini-ready immediately postpartum. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein analyzes celebrity mom profiles to determine the various ways that they encourage all mothers to engage in body work as the energizing solution to solve any work-life balance struggles they might experience. Bikini-Ready Moms also considers the ways that maternal body work erases any evidence of mothers' contributions both at home and in professional contexts. O'Brien Hallstein theorizes possible ways to fuel a necessary mothers' revolution, while also pointing to initial strategies of resistance.

Download or read book Temporary Dad written by Laura Marie Altom and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Crying Babies + 26 Hours + 800 Miles = One Desperate Man! Fireman Jed Hale is used to being in control. But twenty-six hours of babysitting his sister's infant triplets is making him feel utterly helpless. His sister Patti was supposed to be back yesterday.Now he's worried. But he's pretty sure where she is—at the family cabin eight hundred miles away. Jed needs a miracle—fast. And that's exactly what he gets when his new, very beautiful neighbor Annie Harnesberry drops by to offer a helping hand. She seems to have a magic touch with babies and calms the triplets down within minutes. In an act of desperation, Jed asks Annie to join him and the triplets on his mission to find Patti—and Annie accepts! Jed has never needed anyone, but he's starting to think that needing Annie wouldn't be so bad….

Download or read book Wanted Mom for Christmas written by Lee Kilraine and published by Lee Kilraine. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is coming to Climax, North Carolina—and it’s delivering an unexpected second chance right to Hawk Savage’s door…  Small-town cop and widower Hawk Savage doesn’t do Christmas. No lights. No Christmas tree. No mistletoe and magic. He’s got his hands full being a single dad. And that was before his old high-school girlfriend shows up on his doorstep. Olympic medal-winning volleyball player Nora Joy receives a mysterious Rent-A-Mom job offer just when her finances, and her spirits, are at an all-time low. Rent-A-Mom? She’s not much for cooking. Or housekeeping. But she needs a place to stay for the holidays and Hawk’s children are hard to resist… And Hawk? He’s not the lanky teenager she once knew. Not. At. All. He’s now a strong, steady, sexy and very tempting man. Too tempting. Christmas in Climax is shaping up to be full of surprises. But the biggest one of all might be the happy-ever-after that a little boy’s Christmas wish can bring. There’s magic in the air in Climax this Christmas… Wanted: Mom for Christmas is a 35,000 word novella featuring Hawk Savage & his son HL from the Cates Brother Series.

Download or read book Temp written by Noelle Adams and published by Noelle Adams. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thing I want is to take a temp job as assistant to the grumpiest VP at Milford College. But my mom broke her leg, so I need to live in Milford for a while to help her. Plus, I could use some extra money for graduate school, and this is the only job available. I'll just have to put up with Liam for a couple of months. I can deal with his grouchy manner and his workaholic habits and his irresistible eyes. The real problems start when I begin to want him as a lot more than just my boss. Temp is the fifth book in the Milford College series, novellas about the faculty and staff of a small liberal arts college.

Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1975-02-11 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Moby Dyke written by Krista Burton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence. Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a couple dozen remain. How and why did this happen? What has been lost—or possibly gained—by such a decline? What transpires when marginalized communities become more accepted and mainstream? In Moby Dyke, Krista Burton attempts to answer these questions firsthand, venturing on an epic cross-country pilgrimage to the last few remaining dyke bars. Her pilgrimage includes taking in her first drag show since the onset of the pandemic at The Back Door in Bloomington, Indiana; competing in dildo races at Houston’s Pearl Bar; and, despite her deep-seated hatred of karaoke, joining a group serenade at Nashville’s Lipstick Lounge and enjoying the dreaded pastime for the first time in her life. While Burton sets out on the excursion to assess the current state of lesbian bars, she also winds up examining her own personal journey, from coming out to her Mormon parents to recently marrying her husband, a trans man whose presence on the trip underscores the important conversation about who precisely is welcome in certain queer spaces—and how they and their occupants continue to evolve. Moby Dyke is an insightful and hilarious travelogue that celebrates the kind of community that can only be found in windowless rooms soundtracked by Britney Spears-heavy playlists and illuminated by overhead holiday lights no matter the time of year.

Download or read book My Money My Way written by Kumiko Love and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does fear and insecurity keep you from looking at your bank account? Is your financial anxiety holding you captive? You don’t have to stress about money anymore. YOU can take back control. As a newly divorced single mom making $24,000 per year and facing down $77,000 in debt, Kumiko Love worried constantly about money. She saw what other moms had—vacations, birthday parties, a house full of furniture—and felt ashamed that she and her son lived in a small apartment and ate dinner on the floor. Worse, when her feelings began to exhaust her, she binge-shopped, reasoning that she’d feel better after a trip to the mall. On the day she needed to pay for a McDonald’s ice cream cone without her credit card, she had an epiphany: Money is not the problem. Self-Doubt is the problem. Shame is the problem. Guilt is the problem. Society’s expectations for her are the problem. She is the solution. Once she reversed the negative thinking patterns pushing her toward decisions that didn’t serve her values or goals, her financial plan wrote itself. Now, she’s not only living debt-free in her dream home, which she paid for in cash, but she has spread her teachings around the world and helped countless women envision better lives for themselves and their families. Now, building on the lessons she’s taught millions as the founder of The Budget Mom, she shares a step by step plan for taking control back over your financial life—regardless of your level of income or your credit card balance. Through stories from navigating divorce to helping clients thrive through recessions, depression, eviction, layoffs and so much more, you will learn foundational practices such as: How to use your emotions to your financial advantage, instead of letting them control you How to create a budget based on your real life, not a life of self-denial How to create a motivating debt pay-off plan that makes you excited about your future, instead of fearing it My Money My Way will give you the tools to align your emotional health with your financial health—to let go of deprivation and embrace desire. Love’s paradigm-shifting system will teach you how to honor your unique personal values, driving emotions, and particular needs so that you can stop worrying about money and start living a financially fulfilled life.

Download or read book Temporary Agency Work and Globalisation written by Huiyan Fu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its geographic and industry expansion as part of the ongoing globalisation of service activity, temporary agency work (TAW) is relatively understudied. TAW is characterised by a distinct triangular structure where workers are typically hired by staffing or employment agencies while being ’dispatched’ to firms that use them as a type of temporary or non-regular labour. This agency-mediated labour dispatching, as a newly institutionalised industry, has registered rapid growth rates over recent decades across vast swathes of the globe. To a great degree, TAW is part of a wider structural transformation of work and employment under neoliberalism. Arguably, controversy over the expanding non-regular workforce is at its most acute when it comes to unsavoury labour-selling practices. In this connection, TAW is an exemplary field in which to examine today’s ’flexible’ capitalism and its concomitant phenomenon, i.e. ’inequality’. Featuring holistic and interdisciplinary perspectives, this edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of TAW, in an international context. It reveals how the TAW industry is intertwined with the changing relationship between the state, corporations and labour unions at the institutional-structural level, and also the perceptions and experiences of ordinary workers in everyday practice. By combining global and local forces, macro and micro levels of analysis, and theoretical and empirical investigations, the book offers fresh insights into recurring issues of labour flexibility and inequality, contributes to practical applications and facilitates fruitful cross-national collaborations.

Download or read book One Mom S Journey to Motherhood written by Ivy Shih Leung and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Ivy Shih Leung shares her not-so-perfect road to motherhood in this book that is part memoir and part self-help guide, reflecting lessons learned in the form of helpful tips and information to empower readers on the biological and sociological roots behind postpartum depression (PPD). She also seeks to raise awareness of the myths of motherhood and the stigma of PPD that contribute to the silent suffering of many mothers, as well as the importance of adequate social support in the early postpartum weeks. A culmination of Ivys frightening PPD journey and her emergence from it with a passion to learn more about perinatal mood disorders, this book is fueled with passion to help other women and their families, anger from the unnecessary suffering Ivy went through from the lack of information available to the public about PPD, her doctors ignorance and lack of sensitivity, and public remarks like, There is no such thing as a chemical imbalanceall of which shows theres still a long way to go in terms of educating the public about an illness that is suffered by one in eight new mothers. With side effects that include shame, helplessness, and despair at a time that is supposed to be one of the happiest in a womans life, Ivy wants to help fellow PPD advocates get the message out that PPD is not a mind-over-matter thing, as those who dont know any better tend to believe. PPD is an illness that must be taken seriously. We must all remember that the health of the family unit depends on the mothers well-being. Ivy Shih Leungs voice as a storyteller is strong, loud, and clear. Ivy is a survivor of postpartum depression, and through the written words on each page you can hear her roar. Jane Honikman, Founder of Postpartum Support International

Download or read book Working Mom s 411 written by Michelle LaRowe and published by Revell. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Working Mom's 411 provides parents with the options, tools, and solutions that will enable them to make educated and informed choices for their family and successfully navigate the waters of the two parent working household. It's an all-in-one resource that will rescue moms trying to put together the how-to-do-it-all puzzle. With informed insight, a healthy sense of humor, and a fresh, expert perspective, Michelle LaRowe shares time-saving tips and practical solutions to the common complications working mothers face! Here are at your fingertips current childcare options, including an assessment tool for moms to evaluate which option best suits their needs; solutions to everyday problems working parents face, from scheduling to overcoming the stigma often associated with moms who work outside the home; and practical tips on managing childcare, school activities, self care, home life, and marriage.

Download or read book All Moms Work written by Sharon Reed Abboud and published by Capital Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As featured in U.S. News & World Report -- ...a must read 'fave' for moms, linking them in to career savvy advice, imaginative options, and terrific tips.*

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book NIV Mom s Devotional Bible eBook written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you have 5 minutes to read or 15, the devotions in this Bible will touch your heart Mom, you don't have to go it alone! The NIV Mom's Devotional Bible helps you to be the very best mom you can be by relating the Bible to your everyday life as a mother—whether you’re a new or experienced mom! A trusted source of wisdom to help you as you learn how to be the type of mom God wants you to be, this Bible provides a year of weekday and weekend devotions. These weekday readings are full of good advice and encouragement from Elisa Morgan, President Emerita of Mothers of Preschoolers, International (MOPS). Her inspiring insights help you understand and delight in your vital role of raising children and remind you to keep your head high when dealing with the stress of parenthood. Some devotions are also written by well-known and inspiring authors, including Stormie Omartian, Tracey Bianchi, Shauna Niequist, Ann Voskamp, Lysa TerKeurst, Shayne Moore, Jennifer Grant, Linda Dillow, Margaret Feinberg, Karol Ladd, Anita Lustrea, Sheila Walsh, Angela Thomas, and Carolyn Custis James. Weekend “Momday” devotions cycle through four special interest areas for moms: Better Moms Make a Better World reveals five essential ingredients for improving yourself as a mother, which has tremendous implications for your family and your world Train Up a Child helps you teach your children about God and how he can be reflected in their lives A Time to Play gives some good reasons why play is important, even on the busiest days, and it offers some creative ideas for having fun Get Growing encourages you, as a mom and as a woman, to expand your mind and spirit as you journey through motherhood You'll also find resources that show you where to turn for help with the special challenges you face and that offer insight into your role as a mother by linking your real-life encounters as a mom with biblical dilemmas. Whether you have five minutes to read or 15, the devotions in this Bible will touch your heart. Features: Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV) A year's worth of weekday devotions, mostly written by Elisa Morgan, President Emerita of Mothers of Preschoolers International (MOPS) 5 devotions written for you by everyday, real-life moms facing the same struggles you do Weekend “Momday” devotions cycle through special interest areas for moms Index of topics important to mothers Resource list offers timely, practical help for moms Promises and Prayers for Mom Double-column format

Download or read book NIV Busy Mom s Bible written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 2768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for Busy Moms with only a minute to spare Every mom is a busy mom. The NIV Busy Mom's Bible is packed with one-minute thought starters, and this trim, go-anywhere Bible is filled with quick devotional content for those who only have a few minutes a day to seek out divine inspiration through God’s Word. Throughout this Bible, you will find 52 one-minute Thought Starters that let you dip into God’s Word for a minute of refreshment. To go deeper, each of these Thought Starters is followed by an option for a five-minute Reflect and Pray or a ten-minute Study to help you learn even more about what God’s Word has to say to you today. Devotional thoughts are written specifically for you, the busy mom, and cover topics such as raising kids, marriage, emotions, and your identity in Christ. Features: Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV) Double-column format Concise concordance Words of Jesus in red

Download or read book A Forever Home for the Holidays written by Melissa Davis and published by World Castle Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma Miller has lost everything. At the tender age of sixteen, a tragic accident took her parents and her beloved dog from her. Now stuck in the foster care system, Emma is in foreign territory. Her experience so far has her wanting to run away. However, love can come from unexpected places; she only has to open her heart to find it. When presented a Christmas miracle, Emma holds on to it for all she’s worth, but will it be enough? A Forever Home for the Holidays is a heart touching, emotional roller coaster ride about a young girl’s journey to find herself.