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Camping With a Baby
We took our not-yet-six-month-old camping last week. Yep, we’re a little crazy, but if you’ve been around here awhile, you already know that. Our four-year-old, Pumpkin, has been camping once before...
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Ten Tips From Our Ten Years of Marriage
Today I’m guest posting over at Modern Alternative Mama. Friday was our tenth anniversary! It seems unreal that we have been married for an entire decade. Over these last ten years, we’ve learned some...
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My Etsy Store: Grand Opening and Giveaway!
Finally! In celebration of reaching 1,000 Facebook “likes” and passing my one-year mark as a blogger, we are launching our Etsy store. We would like to thank you, dear readers, by cordially inviting...
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Emotions: Control or Be Controlled
This week we are delving into some re-evaluation of the last year and making direction changes for this year. We want to end up better than we start, right? It’s all about forward progress. Read this...
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Creative Ways to Be More Active
I know that most of us make New Year’s Resolutions (or “re-evaluations”) having to do with health or weight. We all want to have more energy, feel better and look our best, so we tend to vow that we...
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Room For Change
All of my life I was certain that I didn’t like gardening. I hadn’t ever actually tried it, but it just seemed like a boring, tedious activity. After our first daughter was born I had the inexplicable...
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Speaking the Truth in Love
Today I took a bold stand. I said that, I do not give my money to a company that *to my knowledge* openly supports sin. It’s impossible to know 100% for certain about all the practices of every single...
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Facebook Fast and 30 For 30 Challenge
Please don’t panic. I’m not disappearing forever, just for… a month (it sounds like a really loooooong time, doesn’t it??). The month of April, to be exact. I’ll still be putting out new blog posts,...
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Lifeless Babies and Broken Mamas
That title pretty much tells you that this won’t be one of my typical posts. You all know that I’m not a “shock them with controversy” kind of girl. I don’t often even mention politics and I hate...
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Becoming a “Natural Mother”!
I am passionate about natural mothering. My blog has tons of natural remedies, real foods recipes, natural pregnancy and birth information (including home birth!), natural cleaning recipes and ideas,...
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Our 1940′s Farmhouse!
We just closed on this adorable 1940′s farmhouse! It was a foreclosure, so it needs quite a bit of work, but we’re having a ton of fun with the renovations. Our family has been so blessed, not only by...
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Farmhouse Renovations: Week Two
We got quite a bit done during week two, in spite of a very nasty 36 hour virus that knocked out everybody except my hubby. High fever, aching all over… bleck! We skipped the fever meds, as always, and...
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Letting God Whittle Our To-Do Lists
As I’ve been making some huge changes to the way I blog (I quit blogging the “right” way), I’ve also become much more aware of how I am spending my time. What makes me decide to do one thing, instead...
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Being Thankful When God Says, “No”
There are so many things we have wanted that we didn’t get. Things that we prayed for many times a day. Things that we were sure were the very best things for us. God said, “no.” Sometimes, we were...
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Toys to Inspire Creativity and Learning
Instead of more movies, video games, computer games and cell phones, how about some presents that get those creative juices flowing and maybe even teach our little kiddos something?! Whether you’re...
View ArticleThe Gift of Rest
Busyness has been glamorized by our culture. Being on-the-go, 24/7 is sought after as though it is the way we are meant to function. Some of us aim for it, others fall into it. Either way, it’s not...
View ArticleOutdoor Toys to Inspire Exploration and Adventure
With all the focus on electronic gadgets, gismos and games, I wanted to offer some alternatives. Yes, a few high-tech items can be great, but most children’s toys ought to encourage our kiddos to be...
View ArticleWhen You’re Overwhelmed
We all have those days when we just can’t seem to handle everything. Our to-do lists are 17 miles long, our dirty laundry is taking over the laundry room, the dirty dishes are taking over the kitchen...
View ArticleProverbs 31 Lady: The Real Ideal? Part One
We ladies can so easily fall into the comparison trap. Church-going ladies often find they are comparing themselves with the well-known Proverbs 31 Woman. To many of us, she seems like an impossible...
View ArticleProverbs 31 Lady: The Real Ideal? part two
Do you feel discouraged by the Proverbs 31 lady? Does she seem like an impossible standard that you can never live up to? Before you give up on being “good enough” let’s take a closer look at her! We...
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