Finally a Christmas tradition you can commit to! Here you will find a list of activity ideas to do with your kids during a 12-day activity advent calendar, as well as the story of Jesus’ birth broken up into twelve days of scripture. Enjoy getting in the Christmas spirit with your family while remembering the true reason for the season!
Read MoreA list of over 50 items that go deeper than the cheap and easy plastic toy. This list is created to help you spark ideas of gift items that will encourage exploration, creativity, and a love for learning and adventure within your kids.
Read MoreWhen life starts getting crazy I remind myself to pause for a moment and grieve the person I used to be, the life I used to have, and the sheer weight of my roles and responsibilites right now.
Read MoreIt’s moments like this that I question who motherhood is changing me in to. On one hand, it’s given me my greatest purpose. On the other hand, it sometimes winds me so tight that I’m beyond recognition.
Read More“Food fights were so much more fun in middle school. Now it takes on a whole new meaning.”
Read MoreThese are activities that we have found successful in our house for ages 2-3 years in order to create a learning environment for our children.
Read MoreHe asked me to put his raffle ticket into the pink bike basket, but I snuck it into the superhero bike basket instead.
Read MoreThese are activities that we have found successful in our house for ages 1 - 2 years in order to create a learning environment for our children.
Read MoreFor a second I paused, collected my thoughts, and then turned so I could look him straight in the eyes. I wanted to be sure he heard what I was about to tell him.
Read More“You can’t plant negative instructions and raise a postive child anymore than you can plant beans and raise potatoes.” -Zig Ziglar
Read MoreYou’re walking into a familiar place but your life seems oddly unfamiliar. You’re not the same person you were only a few days ago. You’ve got to learn how to function in this space in recovery and with this new little human.
Read MoreSure, you go to your sex-education classes in school to learn how to prevent pregnancy, but once you’re actually pregnant? Girl, you’re on your own!
Read MoreOur goal was progress, not perfection, people.
Read MoreI honestly wasn’t even totally sure what a c-section was, and now they’re asking me to take my wedding ring off and they’re wheeling me back for surgery.
Read MoreAll I ever wanted was to be a mother. I had never considered that God might make it a long and trying journey.
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