How to Handle Family Conflict During the Holidays
It seems the ever mounting pressure around the month of December is very real. Be here, buy that, cook this, wear that. I entered the month with a super intentional approach for...
To My Son's Future Wife
Lovely,
If you are reading this, then you are holding in your hands my Bible. When I was married to your husband’s father, I was given the gift of this Bible. It had my new...
Why Grandparents Are The Best
I would consider myself lucky, for the fact that I had 3 living, active-in-my-life grandparents for the first 16 years of my life. My parents were both born & raised in my hometown, and a...
I am a special needs mom to a beautiful and courageous 18 year old daughter.
She is the light of my life, and pushes me to never quit. She pushes through so much with a smile on her face, so...
Christmas is vastly approaching so I've compiled a list of "I wish" gift ideas that most moms may want! First and foremost, how in the world can we get this memo out to our husbands and kids?! Secondly, I...
A Letter to My Daughters' Future Husbands
I pray for you daily.
I pray now, for your safety, security, and your path in life. God knows who you are and what lies ahead and I pray that he paves the road...
My husband and I married when we relatively young, 25 and 23, respectively. We were babes, by all accounts.
But we sure had fire in our bellies, wanderlust in our eyes, and adventure in the marrow of our bones. So,...
For the first year of being a SAHM, I was blissfully happy and mothering our two daughters felt like the easiest job in the world. I had left the work world where everything I did was noticed. Some of...
I guess I've been fortunate in the sense that I didn't lose someone close to me until almost five years ago. Oma, my maternal grandmother, was feisty, German, and the most amazing cook I've ever known. No one can...
Let me just start by saying this, mama. Are you considering taking a trip with your husband and leaving the kids at home? DO. IT.
When I mentioned to a group of mothers that I was planning my first kid-less...