This weekend, I had the first opportunity to be away from my boys for a whole night. Although they’ve stayed the night at Grandma’s before, this was the first time I was actually away from home. Lest you think I’m a sentimental type… IT WAS AWESOME!!! I mean, I was happy to get home to my boys, but I loved my night away, refreshing and renewing my perspective with about 5,000 other ladies at the Hearts at Home conference. This year’s conference theme was “Real Moms: Real Lives, Real Stories.”
Hearts at Home is an organization dedicated to helping moms in the “profession” of mothering. Their goal is to provide encouragement, support, and information for moms across the country, and they’ve recently expanded to include an international Hearts at Home group as well. Twice a year, they offer identical conferences (one in the Spring and then the same one in the Fall) that speak to every mother’s heart. We chose to head to Normal/Bloomington, IL for the Friday night Mom’s Night Out and Saturday conference.
At the conference, we had the opportunity to listen to the Go Fish Guys (they are awesome!), Dr. Kevin Leman (who is hysterically funny & informative), Sally Bauke (who is absolutely hilarious!), and Hearts at Home founder Jill Savage. Since this was a conference full of mothers, there were of course a number of tears, very little sleep, and lots of talk about what we can do to become better moms. We were all able to choose our top 10 workshop options, and we had 4 time slots (aside from the key note speakers) when we were able to attend a variety of fantastic choices. Right now, my children are now longing for, well, a drink, but I promise to talk more about what I learned later…
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