Last year I shared a recipe for Homemade Laundry Detergent. We’ve been using the laundry detergent for well over a year now and it costs me about $7.00 for 6 months of detergent. That’s an incredible deal! I’ve been looking for a Homemade...
After a three week sabbatical, I’m back! It was a wonderful three weeks of speaking at the MOPS convention, moving Erica back to Texas, volunteering for a day in Joplin, and getting my boys started in school. It was a good break…but I did miss hanging...
“I realized at the start that whether a child is biological or adopted, one does not know all the ingredients in the package. That is what growth is all about. A child is the slowest flower in the world, opening petal by petal, revealing the developing...
After spending the past year writing our newest book Living With Less So Your Family Has More, I’ve really been thinking about the reality of adult peer pressure. The words “peer pressure” usually refer to the pressure to conform that teenagers experience. But if...
We talk almost every Monday about intentionally making your marriage better. But what if you’re the only one in your marriage interested in making your marriage better? Today’s “Marriage Monday” is about how to keep discouragement at bay when...
“…be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble…no sharp-toungued sarcasm. Instead, bless — that’s your job, to bless. You’ll be a blessing and also get a blessing.” ~1 Peter 3:8-9 The...
I’m currently taking a three week break from daily blogging in order to focus on my family, move our daughter to Texas, and get my two teenagers back to school. I’ll start actively blogging again on Aug 22. In the meantime, I’m posting some of my...
Recently I was reading Thriving Family Magazine, one article title caught my eye: Become Your Spouse’s Publicist. In the book world, a publicist is one who advertises and promotes books. It got me thinking…Do I more often give my husband “bad...
“It is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” ~Ann Landers
It was several years ago that I had the opportunity to meet Ryan Dobson. Ryan is Jim Dobson’s son–that’s Jim Dobson of Focus on the Family. I’ve listened to Focus on the Family radio for years and felt mentored by Dr. Dobson as a parent over...
Mark and I have been reading a book together called Your Spouse Isn’t The Person You Married: Keeping Your Love Strong Through Life’s Changes by Paul and Teri Reisser. Today’s Marriage Monday is focused on staying connected to your spouse during the...
“If you don’t want arguing to happen, don’t do it. As long as you listen to your child’s arguing, he will think that he still has a chance and will argue even harder.” ~Todd Cartmell
Every child has a limited perspective of the world. It’s our job as moms to help expand their knowledge of the world and to introduce them not only to other cultures, but also the reality that others do not have the same level of lifestyle that most of us do....
We’re going into several weeks of crazy here at the Savage’s. We’re heading to the Wisconsin Dells for a few days of vacation with my extended family in celebration of my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. Then we’re home for a few days...
Today is Mark’s birthday so today’s Marriage Monday will be a little different. I’m going to celebrate who Mark is! But not only that, I’m also going to invite you to a marriage seminar that Mark and I are doing in October. If you live in...
