BLESSED BEYOND EXHAUSTION
Hey, friends! Here is my first Favorite Things list of 2017. Check out a few things I’m loving this month and let me know what you think! This Focus on the Family podcast episode: Y’all. This one is so good. It’s all about teaching your children money management. It struck such a chord with me that Peter and I have decided to start implementing it with Brienne. I can’t wait…
The dinner table seems to be the center of interesting conversation at my house. Is it the same for your family? This was the conversation a few days ago: Child A: Mom, it’s easy for me to be nice. Child B: Well, it’s NOT easy for me… As I listened to this back and forth banter, I began to realize something that should seem like common sense. Each of my children…
I don’t know if your family is like our family, but we did an awful lot of traveling over the Christmas holidays. And traveling can be exhausting. The week before Christmas we decided to take the kids to Disney World. We live just 3-1/2 hours from the “Happiest Place on Earth” and we wanted them to experience the joy of Disney before we moved out of state this summer. …
Each January, the internet is filled with chatter about people’s #oneword for the year. I’m sure you’ve noticed it as you scroll through your Facebook newsfeed or read New Years blogs. A few years ago, I stumbled upon this concept of choosing a word or verse to claim for a new year and I’ve loved seeing how the Lord used each new theme to work in the life of our family.…
Happy New Year, friends! Do you set New Year’s Resolutions? I love having goals to strive toward so I definitely tend to be in the “resolution setter” category. Last year, I set 8 goals, most of which went by the wayside after March. (Just being honest here…) But even with last year’s failures, I am setting more goals this year. I just feel like it’s a good idea to have…
Hi, friend! Can you believe 2016 is almost over? During the next couple weeks, I will be posting some of my New Year’s Resolutions as well as my annual Verse of the Year. (You can read about my 2016 verse here and my 2015 verse here.) Stay tuned for those upcoming posts. But today, I want to share a little bit about our adoption journey. I’m hoping to keep you…
Christmas is Sunday. I don’t know about your kids, but mine are about to lose their minds over the presents under the tree. They’ve been scoping out which ones belong to them, shaking each package, and trying to guess what’s in them. Just like I did as a child. Christmas has always held such magic. I remember waking up around 4:00 each Christmas morning, sneaking into my brother’s room, and trying…
UPDATE: The winner of the book giveaway is Shannon H. Shannon, I will be getting in touch with you soon and your book choice will be on its way to you! Congratulations! And thank you to everyone who participated! Last year, one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to read 50 books. I surpassed that goal by reading over 75 books. (Don’t judge. I spend a lot of time in…
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about idols. Not the “graven images” or “golden calves” of the Old Testament but more like the things we hold most closely to ourselves. A few weeks ago I wrote this post on the god of emotion, and it seemed to resonate with a lot of people, probably because we are all susceptible to allowing our emotions to control us. But God doesn’t want…
Hi, friends. I hope everyone experienced a relaxing Thanksgiving. Peter had a second surgery on his foot on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving because it had not healed properly from the first surgery back in July. He is doing great, though, and is able to walk around just fine now. But needless to say, our Thanksgiving was strangely quiet this year. Here are a few of my favorite things this month:…