My favorite memories from childhood always involve the holidays. Every year, my parents loaded me and my siblings into our van and traveled 13 hours away to see my grandma. It didn’t matter what time of day or night we arrived, my grandmother was always waiting at the door for us. She threw the door open and welcomed us into her waiting arms. I never doubted for a moment that she would welcome me inside. Her house was warm and cozy and inviting. Her kitchen smelled like good food and clean ... [keep reading]
Inspire Your Kids with the Stories of Others
When our daughter was three years old, we took her to see a close family friend perform in a local production of Annie Get Your Gun, the lively, musical rendition of the life of Annie Oakley. Bethany was fascinated. Soon she wanted a cowgirl hat. She spent a lot of time riding her rocking horse, pretending to be a cowgirl. When I found a children’s book about Little Sureshot—Annie’s nickname—I checked it out from the library and must have read it to my daughter a dozen times. I think it’s ... [keep reading]
In 2020, Who’s Leading You?
If you are like me, you started out 2020 with some resolutions. And if you’re like me, it’s January 10, and you’ve…already…failed. Maybe you’ve even given up! I’ll be honest, mamas. One of my resolutions was to step up my workout game. It wasn’t the frequency of my workouts that I wanted to improve. It was the intensity of them. My goal is to run two miles, five days a week. A great goal! But my resolve? It wore off as soon as I sweated up my new workout gear. As a professional counselor, ... [keep reading]
You Can Grow a Year’s Worth of Food for Your Family – Get a Free Planning Guide Today!
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]
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