Jaimie Ramsey

Jaimie has had a love of words and writing since childhood and studied English and Theology in college. Jaimie and her husband have been married since 2011 and have four children. She enjoys cooking, movies, reading, walks, date nights, and napping. She and her family reside in a village in rural East-central Nebraska. Visit her blog at jaimieramseyblogs.com.
Motherhood is one of God’s highest callings and greatest gifts. Those of us who have the vocation of mother have the joy, privilege and responsibility of raising little soldiers for the Kingdom: teaching and training our children in the faith, loving them with the love God has for us, and walking alongside our husbands and God Himself as we help raise our children into men and women of God.

This joy and gift is not without its struggles, as any mother well knows. Some days the task of motherhood seems challenging. Other days it feels downright impossible. And there are dozens
Dear tired mama: You are not alone. I get you. I see you.

I am in the stage of life that is characterized by chaos, cleaning up messes, and refereeing sibling squabbles. My kids are seven and a half, six, four and two. I haven’t slept through the night in years except for the rare night away I get with my husband (make that happen, if at all possible, at least twice a year! Your marriage is worth it!).

My kids have had colds lately so that’s made for some rough and heavily interrupted nights. And my two year old is still nursing so she doesn’t sleep through the night yet. It is HARD.
When I look back through my old Bible study journals, it gives me some feelings of guilt, and I cringe when I see the gaps in dates, some of them weeks or months long. There have been times in my life where I was very consistent with Bible reading. I would keep up the habit for several weeks, or even a few months at a time. But then something would happen to make me stop, and a habit, once broken, is hard to restart.

My problem was not busyness, or lack of time, but a lack of discipline.

Discipline is such a good thing. In order to create any new good habits, we need discipline.