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    Memory-Making Mom: Building Traditions That Breathe Life Into Your Home
    Memory-Making Mom: Building Traditions That Breathe Life Into Your Home
    Memory-Making Mom: Building Traditions That Breathe Life Into Your Home
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    Memory-Making Mom: Building Traditions That Breathe Life Into Your Home

    Written by Jessica Smartt

    Narrated by Jaimee Paul

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    What will your children remember of their childhood? Calling all moms who want to break out of monotony, distraction, and busyness to a life of making lasting memories with your kids and drawing your family closer to one another and to God!

    What’s the solution to gaining the balanced, meaningful life you desire with your family? Create traditions that bring joy and significance! Popular "Smartter Each Day" blogger and mom of three, Jessica Smartt explains why memory-making is the puzzle piece that today’s families are longing for.

    As Jessica shares her ideas, traditions, and beautiful insights on parenting in this well-written resource guide, she highlights the tradition-gifts kids need most with 300+ unique traditions including:

    • Food: memories that stick to your ribs
    • Holidays: fall bucket lists, crooked Christmas trees, and lingering over Lent
    • Spontaneity: going on adventures
    • Faith: why you need the puzzle box 

    Memory-Making Mom is jam-packed with her own favorite childhood traditions, those she has started with her own children, traditions tied to the Christian faith, and additional ideas that you can take and tailor to suit your needs. Jessica also offers spiritual guidance and practical encouragement to modern parents to keep on adventuring—even when they are fighting distractions, are on a budget, and exhausted.

    A rich resource of two hundred-plus unique traditions and beloved family recipes available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMar 5, 2019
    ISBN9780785221302
    Author

    Jessica Smartt

    Jessica Smartt is a former English teacher turned homeschooling mama of three. A week after her first baby was born, she began her motherhood blog “Smartter” Each Day. Jessica and her husband live in beautiful North Carolina, where she loves hiking with kids (mostly), steaming coffee in the afternoon, family bike rides, and anything that’s ever been done to a potato.

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    • 5/5
      So inspiring for who wants to create traditions with their families and needs some guidance/ideas. Jessica Smartt really put her heart into the words and I felt touched by this book. Also the narrator is great.
    • 3/5
      The book was truly great, but the narrator was AWFUL!!
    • 5/5
      I loved it!! I listened to the audio version and it was so inspiring. This book is full of great ideas and sound advice. I’m going to purchase the book so I can make notes and start some new traditions.
    • 5/5
      Very inspirational! Loved each chapter and left with me many ideas on how can I improve my family's relationship!
    • 5/5
      Wonderful ideas with the core being Jesus! I loved it!