Take care of your growing family by discovering how easy it is to raise healthy, organic fruits, vegetables, and herbs in your own garden. Regardless of where you live or how much space you have, the worksheets in this guide will help you grow food that will reduce your grocery budget, have you eating healthier, and maybe best of all, raise produce your family already enjoys eating. This family garden planning guide is our gift to you for signing up for the latest content from Christian ... [keep reading]
You Can Achieve Your Goals This Year—Here’s Why
I’m good at working toward my goals like a woman on a mission…at least in the beginning. But somewhere along the way, my enthusiasm fades (or plummets off the cliff entirely). I struggle to regain momentum, and I’m ready to chuck the idea and go back to life before my grand goal came into being. If you find yourself in that boat, I want to give you a little power boost today. I may not know you personally, and I may not know what your goals are. But I do know you can achieve ... [keep reading]
Give Yourself the Gift of Self-Care
Okay, mamas. You survived the Christmas cray-cray. I’m amazed you’re even looking at your computer today—but maybe it’s the much-deserved break after all the shopping, wrapping, cooking, assembling toys, and all the general amazingness you are and do over the holidays. I’m glad you’re here! Now it’s time for you. Yes, you. And yes, this post is about the ever-elusive topic of self-care. I don’t have to remind you that self-care is important. Judging by how tired you probably feel right now, ... [keep reading]
Here’s Why I’m Ditching Christmas Traditions
Christmas traditions. They often define our holiday and bring meaning and joy. They’re comfortable—familiar—settling us with order during a busy season. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Christmas traditions, but if we’re not careful, they can work against us. The frenzied pace of making sure we get every last detail in place. The endless glances at the calendar to make sure we have time to do this activity or that. The moments spent behind a camera lens to capture said traditions ... [keep reading]
Jesus Can Heal, But Will He?
At age 32, just after celebrating the start of the new life of our son inside my womb, I discovered that there was also death beginning to form inside me, in the shape of a cancerous tumor in my breast. What a weighty tension it was to hold; to rejoice in the Lord granting us this gift of pregnancy, but to also mourn the loss of my health and potentially my life at a young age. My husband and I, when sharing these tidings, would always start with the cliché, “We have some good news and some bad ... [keep reading]
Give Your Family the Gift of Time
The holidays are upon us again, and honestly speaking, sometimes I feel they lack the joy they’re meant to bring. This joyous season is my busiest. I feel overwhelmed and stressed just looking at all the events and obligations on our calendar. Because I feel as if I have to get all the things done at once, each day is overfilled. Before I know it, I’ve scheduled—some by choice, some by tradition—every last waking moment. When that happens, I become even more distracted and am left feeling ... [keep reading]
Share the Joy of Gardening with Your Family
Growing a garden is as much food for the soul as it is for the body. There is little more satisfying, or delicious, than walking out your backdoor and picking a fresh, vine-ripened tomato or filling a colander full of carrots and beets with soil still lingering on the roots. Watching the cycle of a garden, from the dormant earth, first seed sprouting, producing the harvest, and then gifting us with another seed to perform the cycle again, is like witnessing a small miracle each year. My heart ... [keep reading]
What Will Truly Bring You Joy This Christmas?
Oh Christmas, my favorite holiday. Well, it was my favorite holiday until last year. I have a fondness for the lights, the music, and the parties. This season brings wonderful feelings of love, joy and hope. It also brings an impossible amount of pressure. The panic hits me every year in mid-December. But last year was the worst. As I sat in the parking lot outside of our local mall, an unseasonably violent thunderstorm unleashed its wrath. I clutched my phone in one hand and a battered ... [keep reading]
How to Make Meaningful Family Traditions (and Question Existing Ones)
I was frantic. It was Christmas Eve, and somehow, I had forgotten to buy the raviolis. I imagined the furrowed brow of my father and my mother’s disappointment if those we didn’t tomato-saucy rounds weren’t the crown of the holiday table. Heaven knows we just wouldn’t enjoy all the other stuff, like the frosted sugar cookies and sparkly gifts under the tree, without the raviolis. Frankly, it just wouldn’t be Christmas! I had to save Christmas. It was my duty as wife and mama. But it ... [keep reading]
What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Giving Thanks
It’s that time of year again, the time where family and friends gather together and give thanks for all that we have. Across the United States, we congregate around casseroles and pumpkin pies. We laugh and hug and dodge Aunt Freida’s sloppy kisses. We’ll challenge each other to backyard football and then return to the warmth of the indoors to scrape at the last bits of apple pie. Grandmas will rock their grandchildren to sleep. Grandfathers will tell stories from their childhoods. Mothers and ... [keep reading]
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