Ep. 14: Mom Friends + Grace Girls (How One Led to the Other)
M Is for Mama Podcast
Abbie Halberstadt
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Finding kindred spirits to "do life" with is challenging--especially when you throw in all of the mama responsibilities like naptime schedules to coordinate, mealtimes to plan, homeschooling or school drop-offs, and a host of other everyday life details that must be taken into consideration when lining up play dates, dinner with friends, or even a quick chat on the phone (which, if you're anything like me, never happens, so we resort to playing tag with texts or voice memos).
It can be so hard to find mama friends that feel life-giving rather than like one more box to tick. Trust me, I know. I prayed for that kind of "fill my cup" community for years before the Lord began to bring along just the right mamas. But hard is not the same thing as bad, and the waiting has made the relationships He's blessed me with all the sweeter.
In this episode, we tackle a few core things to do as you pray and look for your "tribe." And we also talk about Grace Girls--the homeschool girls group that I started a couple of years ago that I get asked about all the time. You'll learn: how it came to be, how it works, and how you can start a similar group of your very own, regardless of your school choices or schedule.
Bible references:
Proverbs 18:24
John 15:13
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MS from Mama podcast I'm your host Abby Halbersat |
| 0:08.8 | happy wife mama to 10 Bible believing Christian and today's show, I want to talk about the concept of putting ourselves out there for the sake of friendship. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm going to give you a very specific example and kind of do a twofer. |
| 0:22.9 | Both talk about what it's like to invest in godly friendships and kind of what that could entail. |
| 0:29.2 | And I do have an entire chapter on this coming out in my new book in September |
| 0:33.4 | 2023 called Hard is not the same thing as bad because I hear all the time that |
| 0:38.1 | mom friendships are hard it's hard to find kindred spirits it's hard to find |
| 0:42.0 | like-minded folks it's hard to find like-minded folks. It's hard to find |
| 0:44.4 | the time to invest. It's hard to find similar parenting styles so you don't feel |
| 0:48.0 | like you're always kind of worrying about whether their kids and their |
| 0:51.8 | parenting styles are going to have an influence on you, which, you know, is a reasonable consideration, but sometimes it's not necessarily a bad thing depending on the influence that it might have. |
| 1:01.0 | So there's all these factors involved in all these things that make it feel like it can be really complicated to find good mom friends and kind of how to go about that. |
| 1:09.1 | And then the second part, the two-pronged approach, the other bird that I'm going to knock out so to speak is to |
| 1:16.8 | Talk about this thing that I started a year and a half go called Grace Girls. |
| 1:22.8 | And it is a homeschool girls group, |
| 1:25.2 | but I don't think it has to be specifically |
| 1:28.0 | unique to homeschoolers. |
| 1:30.0 | And it's something that the Lord just really put it on my heart heart to do and I'll talk about how that came about here in just a little bit. |
| 1:37.0 | Today's episode is probably going to be a little bit shorter because I'm actually on a time crunch today as my little boys sleep and I have to go do some cleaning at |
| 1:45.2 | our homeschool co-op so I'm going to talk as fast as I can include as much detail |
| 1:49.1 | as I can and then I'll be off. This episode, by the way, dovetails nicely with the episode that I did on stages of life. |
| 1:58.0 | Because I really feel like this Grace Girls group that I've been able to start is because I really feel like the stage of life that I'm in, |
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