New Years means starting fresh. Daydreaming about new accomplishments and challenging ourselves to try new things is invigorating. Don’t you just love the sense of accomplishment that comes from reaching your goals? One year I vowed to run 12 miles straight and finished in four months. Another time I made a $5 weekly grocery budget…
Christmas Decor on a Budget & Christmas Linkup!
When I think of Christmas decor on a budget, plastic holly berries or cheesy fake poinsettias come to mind. I don’t know about you, but there’s no way that stuff is entering my front door. Jillian at Olive Plants & Cornerstones floored me with her gorgeous holiday home decor. It is flat out pretty. You’d…
3 Ways to Pull the Nativity into Christmas
We’re putting the Christ in Christmas this week, sharing intentional and doable ideas to focus on our Savior in the “C” is for Christ(mas) series. Today, Gabby from MamaGab is featuring three ways to use the nativity to highlight Jesus this Christmas. Where’s baby Jesus? Jesus hide-and-seek of sorts is my fave of the three…
Navigate the Holidays with a Christmas Roadmap
Walmart doesn’t sell Christmas road maps. Can you imagine the flurry of customers to grab a copy of the Christmas best-practice guide hot off the press? I might be first in line, that is, unless it required parking lot campouts like Black Friday.Source What do you want your Christmas to look like this year? Having…
How to Use an Advent Guide
Welcome to day two of “C” is for Christ(mas), where we’re sharing practical, no-fuss ways to keep Christ at the center of our holiday celebrations. Yesterday, Caroline at Anchored in His Grace highlighted her family’s top 10 Christmas Children’s Books. Today, Keri from Growing in His Glory is giving us a peek into how she…
Christ-Centered Christmas Children’s Books
Welcome to day one of the “C” is for Christ(mas) series. If you’re a parent, you’re sure to love this one! We’re aiming for a Christ-centered Christmas around these parts, and what’s better than reading Christmas stories together to remember who the holiday is all about. My friend Caroline at Anchored in His Grace put…
5 Ways to Have an Intentional Christmas
Christmas morning, as gift wrap is hurled into the air and another holiday whizzes by you wonder once again why you spent hours meticulously creasing wrapping paper and scribing gift tags. Do you want to step away from hustle and bustle of the commercialized Christmas this year? Or is it just me? This week I’m…
Proven Best Motivational Tool for Birth
Scripture verses are a powerful motivator during birth. Focus is everything when you feel like you just can’t possibly do it any longer. For both the natural home birth of my daughter and my son’s hospital birth, Scripture note cards were incredibly helpful to pull through the pain & remember that my Creator fashioned my…
Happy Scenes
There are some scenes in each day that make me sit back and smile the wide satisfied grin of an incredibly happy mama. God has been so good to my little family. Baby shoes lined up on the rug, so delicately small & so perfectly sweet. Little girl toys strewn across my bedroom. Papis and…
My Birth Playlist
When Summer Elizabeth was born, I had a playlist ready to go, stereo loaded. We used only one of those CDs before my midwife arrived and determined the music not “soothing” enough. The rest of the birth went on under the approved calming harp melodies that the doula had in her handbag. Not my cup…
