I am so excited to tell you that this Thursday, March 27 at 3PM CST ( 4PM for my EST friends) “Hope for the Weary Mom” will be on Living Inspired Radio with Tricia Goyer.  We will be talking about our book, finding hope in the middle of our messy lives, and possibly even sharing some fun things coming up in the days ahead.

If by chance you can’t listen to the live show—no worries, you can listen to it later as a podcast! You can find out all the details right here. By the way, Tricia has been so gracious to us. We love her and thank the Lord He brought her our way! She is the best!

Remember last month when Brooke came to town and I told you we were working on a top secret video? Well, just in case you missed it, here it is!  I call it “Hope with Heart“. My sweet friend Erin did the whole thing, and she is super-awesome-cool.

Well, what do you think?
Do you love it? I kinda do.
Remember, Thursday is our live chat.
Want to hang out with us?
Please say, “Yes!”

xo,
Stacey

Please say you will come by and chat a while with us! I’d love to answer your questions, so if you have one, leave it here in the comments.  We’ll try to chat it about it at the Kitchen Table tonight

The link for the “Hope for the Weary Mom” channel is here.

{What is Spreecast you say? It is something like a Twitter Party but you get to see the people talking! You can hang out in the chat room, interact with other moms, and ask us questions!}

Last week was crazy. I’m pretty sure I met myself coming and going several times. It all started with Brooke coming into town to work on a few projects for “Hope for the Weary Mom”. One thing we did was shoot a video with my friend Erin. I can’t wait to show it to you. She is editing it right now and trying to make me look 10 years younger and 10lbs lighter. Not really, but that would be awesome, right?

We also worked on a top secret I can’t tell you right now plan for the next few months. I can say, God is not finished with this message and we are excited to walk with Him on the journey. He loves moms, you know. We do, too. If I talk too much about it I get all weepy, so I’m going to stop right now.

We might also have eaten our favorite Starbucks Ice Cream and chased that with 10 Blow Pop Suckers. I’m not saying we did, but it is a strong possibility.

Our friend Jeff asked this question on Twitter:

Isn’t that a sweet Tweet? I don’t think any one calls us “Weary Moms” except us. We have always used #wearymoms for our #hashtag on Twitter, because we felt like moms who saw it would get it. Maybe we should add #hopemoms to it. What do you think?

Only two more things, I promise! The first is we are speaking at a new conference March 2014 called Raising Generations. It is going to be awesome.  If you live in New York area or you want hop on a plane, train, or get in your car and drive there, you can find all about it here. I love that two of the women in charge of it happen to be writers for MODsquad. I’m also excited about two Lisa’s who will be speaking there: Baker and Leonard.

Finally, today I am over at the Hope for the New Year Book Club talking about my favorite chapter called “When You Come to the End of Yourself”. I love what God wrote in this chapter.  I say that because even though I may have put the words on the page, He wrote them on my heart first. He has encouraged me with them. He has grown me through them. I am overwhelmed by His grace. The chapter focus on two things you can do today to move from weary to hope. It works for weary moms, weary women, weary wives, and just about everybody. I’d love for you to stop by and watch the video. I may even sing on at the end.

xo,

Stacey

We are 3 weeks into the “Hope for the Weary Mom Book Club,” and I am loving the community of sweet and yes weary moms God has gathered. Are you following along? I sure would love to see you over there, too.

Today at the book club, I share a video about my “Phantom Mom” named Carol.  I also talk about how God is teaching me I don’t need to measure up to an invisible standard. His standard is grace. . . always.

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One sweet mom said this recently:

“I’m reading it and crying because I haven’t felt so completely understood before. Thank you for being real. Thank you for sharing your mess. And thank you for bringing everything back to the hope of the gospel. At this point in my life as a mom, this book is the best book on being a mom that I’ve read.” ~Sarah

And now, I’m undone.
For real.

Lord—You are so good to use my broken ugly places like this.
I had no idea this is what you had in mind when you said to write.

Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.

Hello sweet friends! I am so excited for the Hope for the Weary Mom Book Club to start today. It is being hosted over on the Hope blog, so if you want to join me over there with hundreds of others moms I would love it.