Good Morning Girls

For The First Time Ever…

May 7, 2012 by Courtney 36 Comments

We have lots of new and exciting things happening over at my sister site – GoodMorningGirls.org We are about to embark on a 14 weeks series in the Proverbs 31 ebook (that is free when you subscribe here) starting next Monday, May 14th!

Every Monday I will be posting videos here and over at GoodMorningGirls.org. Then on Wednesdays and Fridays you will want to check in over at GoodMorningGirls.org for all the other extra resources, writing, challenges and more! It’s going to be a fun summer!

Good Morning Girls groups are accountability groups that you either create with your own friends (and register here) OR if you don’t have friends to ask you can go to our message board here and find a group. YOU DO NOT NEED A GROUP TO PARTICIPATE in this summer study though !

The GMG’s are sooo excited to announce, for the first time ever, we are providing a special GMG Leader’s Guide!!! Woohoo! So if you are a leader – click on the link and download your free leader’s guide!

Also, for the first time ever we are offering the summer book club in multiple languages!!!

The Proverbs 31 eBook has been translated into Spanish and German (and a Croatian version is done too and I’ll add it to this post as soon as I have the link!)

Please meet Edurne - who translated the ebook into Spanish!

Mi nombre es Edurne Mencía. Soy de Bilbao, España y actualmente vivo en Amazonas, Venezuela, junto a mi esposo y mis tres hijos: Yennixon Daniel (4), Nahiara (2)y Markel Elías (3 meses). Junto con mi familia, servimos a Dios en el ministerio con indígenas y oramos por entrar en la selva definitivamente. Mientras tanto, seguimos trabajando para Dios y haciendo nuestro viaje personal.

Follow Edurne on Facebook here.

Click here to find the link to the free Proverbs 31 eBook – translated into Spanish! (if that link does not work - try this one.)

Next let me introduce you to a sweet friend who has been translating my posts from here on Women Living Well into German!!! It’s Katja!

Ich komme aus Bayern. Und bin mit einen Österreicher verheiratet. Bei meiner Ausbildung zur Hotelfachfrau habe ich gelernt hart zu arbeiten und meine eigenen Interessen für die Bedürfnisse anderer zurückzunehmen. Mit Mitte 20 habe ich ein Jahr lang in Amerika gelebt. Ich bin eine typische große Schwester. Mein kleines pinkes Netbook ist mein “Lieblingsspielzeug”! Dank facebook kann ich mit all meinen Freunden überall auf der Welt in Kontakt bleiben. Ich liebe Bücher! In der Regel lese ich mindestens ein Buch – meistens ein paar gleichzeitig. Neuerdings auch gerne auf dem Kindle! Ich liebe Musik!!! Jede Art von Musik, Musizieren und vor allem Singen. Ok, so langsam ist es nicht mehr JEDE Art von Musik… In den letzten 15 Jahren habe ich in acht verschiedenen Städten in vier verschiedenen Ländern gelebt. Ich habe zwei Kinder mit 5 und 8 Jahren. Ich liebe meinen Job als Hausfrau und Mutter.

Follow Katja on Facebook here.

Click here to download the German Version – The Proverbs 31 Woman~One Virtue At a Time

Thank you Edurne, Katja and Rosiland (her Croatian translation is coming soon!)! You women are amazing!!! Thank you!!

Okay – just a few more details – if you haven’t already – download your free Bible Reading Plan for the summer by clicking here.

And look for the free study guide (you can print it and put it into a 3 ring binder) that goes along with the Bible Reading Plan – it will be posted any hour now over at GoodMorningGirls.org

So who’s in and joining us this summer? I can’t wait to get this party started!!!

Walk with the King,

Filed Under: Good Morning Girls, Proverbs 31, Uncategorized

Summer Bible Reading Plan & Book Club

April 23, 2012 by Courtney 28 Comments

So yesterday’s challenge was...“Purpose to not read ANYTHING else before you have read God’s word for at least 1 minute in the morning. Do not read the newspaper, facebook, a spiritual devotional or check your email. Go straight to God’s word first.”

Do you need some help as to where to read in God’s word or some accountability? Then keep reading!

I’m excited to announce the Good Morning Girls summer session! GMG will be using my FREE eBook “The Proverbs 31 Woman ~ One Virtue at a Time!” If you haven’t downloaded it yet – now’s the time – here’s how to get it for Free!

To download and print the reading plan click here.

This summer session will include:

Weekly videos from Courtney & Angela
Practical and realistic tips on HOW to be a Proverbs 31 Woman
Fun weekly challenges
Memory verses
And special guests!!!

Our study is going to be light, practical and GREAT for the busyness of our summers!

Do you have to be in a Good Morning Girls group to join? NO but we recommend you create one!!! !

What is Good Morning Girls? (GMG)
If you have never heard of Good Morning Girls before here’s what we are… “Good Morning Girls” is a title for a group of women who use email, Facebook, Twitter, Skype or text messaging to keep each other accountable for their quiet times. My group emails each other each daily after we have our quiet time. We say “Good Morning” and then share what we read in our quiet time. Some of us have our quiet time first thing in the morning, while others squeeze it in during children’s naps or at bedtime. The time of day doesn’t matter…..our focus is just being in God’s Word daily!

Here is a video about Good Morning Girls and a few testimonials from my own personal GMG friends!

For those of you viewing this in your email, click here.

Summer sign-ups run from: April 16th-May 14th
Summer session dates: May 14th-August 17th

Who can join?
Young, old, single, married – any woman who wants to pursue walking with Jesus. (This is our belief statement- scroll to bottom of page).

Joining GMG is as simple as 1-2-3!

1- Find a group of friends to form an online accountability group.

Women in your Sunday school class or church
Friends from your women’s bible study
Past college roommates,
Relatives,
Neighbors,
Co-workers,
Other moms that you do life with…

Still not sure who to invite? Then visit our online message board and find a group there to join! GMG groups are forming based on location, age of children, pastor wives, homeschool moms, public school moms, working moms, stay-at-home moms, special needs moms…etc. If you don’t see a group that interests you then form your own online!

2- Once you know who is in your group, decide how you want to daily communicate to each other.

Facebook -setup a secret group. (Not sure how? Here are the steps)
Twitter- our hastag is #GoodMorningGirls
Email
Text messaging
Skype

3- Sign-Up HERE!

After you have joined our summer session, please make sure to subscribe to our blog for blog post updates and join our Facebook community by “Liking” us!

We are so excited to start this next session with you!

Walk with the King,

Filed Under: Good Morning Girls, Quiet Times

Coming Soon…& WLWW Link-Up Party!

April 3, 2012 by Courtney 22 Comments

On Monday, Angela over at GoodMorningGirls.org, announced their summer book club selection and it’s ……

The Proverbs 31 Woman: One Virtue at a Time ! Hooray!

This summer session will include:

Videos from Me & Angela
Practical and realistic tips on HOW to be a Proverbs 31 Woman
Fun weekly challenges
Memory verses
And special guests!!!

Our study is going to be light, practical and GREAT for the busyness of our summers!

If you haven’t already – you can subscribe to my blog on the right hand side bar and receive this eBook for FREE! You will find the direct link to the eBook at the bottom of every email you receive from me.

This Book Club begins: May 14th and runs until August 17th

To learn more about Good Morning Girls and what the groups are all about click here.

You do not have to be a part of a group to join this book club.

I can’t wait for YOU to join US!

Walk with the King,

It’s Women Living Well’s Wednesday Link-Up Party Time!!!

Join the fun, do a little blog hopping and don’t forget if you join below -please add the Women Living Well Wednesdays button to your post so your readers can find us here! (Posts can include the topics of marriage, parenting, homemaking, finances, recipes, organization and more!)

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Filed Under: Good Morning Girls, Women Living Well Wednesdays

I Am SOOOOO Tired & WLWW Link-Up Party!

March 13, 2012 by Courtney 19 Comments

Oh friends! I just had a great bloggy break!!! One of the things I did a whole bunch of (besides spring cleaning) - is sleep! lol!!! Oh ya – I’m talking about sleeping in - power naps – and I even went to bed crazy early the one night – it felt SO good! I was LONG overdue for some good long nights of sleep. I’ve been cutting myself short lately and I came to the point where I found myself saying everyday…

“I am SOOOOOO tired.”

Are those words that you think quite commonly? I bet you do – I just know I can’t be alone in this!

I read a crazy statistic that said “In 1850 Americans crawled into bed at a reasonable hour and slept an average of 9.5 hours a night. By 1910, half the country had electricity, but our recent ancestors were still breathing evenly with their eyes closed, on average, nine hours a night. By 1950 an average night’s sleep decreased to 8 hours. And by 2008, Americans, on average, go 6.5 hours of sleep a night.” - Kathy Peel – America’s Family Manager

We are a sleep deprived nation.

I would go out on a limb and say that it is affecting our marriages, parenting and homemaking negatively.

It is much more difficult to be patient when we feel tired.

It is much more difficult to be consistent in training our children when we feel tired.

It is much more difficult to be “joyful in all circumstances” when we are tired.

So what do we do?

Visit me over at my sister site - GoodMorningGirls.org - where we are in week 9 of our study in the book of Ephesians (click here to see our reading plan) and I’m talking about getting some more sleep!

Now It’s link-up time!

It’s Women Living Well’s Wednesday Link-Up Party!!!

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Walk with the King!