Occasionally, a moment arises when the big kids are done with their school work, the babies are napping, a meal is bubbling away in the crock pot, and the weather outside is perfect. It’s occasional, but it does happen. 🙂 If and when that golden opportunity with your big kids shows itself, I recommend spending some time together outside on […] Read more…
This post is part two of a post from 2015. If you’re interested in reading that first, please click here So, you’re pregnant… again. Or maybe just still pregnant… Let me high five/ fist bump/ belly bump you. I’m so excited for your growing family, and I have more ideas to help ya’ll get through this […] Read more…
The Lord is my Giver of life, and of joy, and of salvation, and of all good things. Everything that has even a hint of Heaven in it springs from his deep, deep well of kindness. Most of His kindnesses go unnoticed…the beautiful details and comforts in my life are so abounding that I, incredibly, am […] Read more…
Having toddlers is a lot of fun, but it can also be sort of stressful when you’re starting out and when you think about having to teach your child. Maybe it’s stressful because you’ve never taught anyone before, maybe it’s stressful because you have no ideas, or maybe it’s just stressful because your toddler is […] Read more…
You know it…I know it…the whole world knows it: 2016 was hard…and weird. 2016 made me wish that I lived in any other time other than this one…that there was somewhere perfectly safe and happy that my family and I could sneak off to. 2016 made me long for Heaven. But I am not in Heaven…yet. I […] Read more…
Let me begin this post with, I’m not pregnant. However, for some reason, I feel the need to organize all my thoughts and ideas and attempts at surviving the first few weeks with a baby. These are not scientific by any means, but just some thoughts that I used or wished I’d used when my […] Read more…
There are 3 packages sitting in my kitchen that are ready to be mailed out! All I need is 3 mommas to send them to. The winners (there will be 3 of them!) of this year’s Christmas giveaway will receive a copy of my recently-published children’s book, “The Emergency Bird,” along with a special edition […] Read more…
Thanksgiving is over, but I hope our giving of thanks will never end! Now Christmas is coming and the year is swiftly coming to a close. Oh my! – How things have changed this year!!! Even more than usual. (If that is even possible.) Some very good changes and some very hard changes. When I […] Read more…
As my children are entering into the ability to understand the depth of Christmas, I am filled with the desire to present them with the truth: that, yes, we eagerly await the joy the gifts will bring on Christmas morning, but we also anticipate the forever joy that the birth of our Savior brings. Toys, […] Read more…
I am a recipe hunter. Yes, I have cookbooks and research fun recipes. But my favorite recipes come from people I know. Whose yummy treats I’ve tried. I will hunt your recipe for YEARS if I love it enough. I am still trying to squeeze a cole slaw recipe out of a girl from 2009. […] Read more…