I recently cleaned out our toy room and did some major reorganizing. Many of the puzzle boxes were damaged. I cut out the picture of what the puzzle looked like and taped it to the outside of a plastic zip-lock bag. Once the puzzle pieces were in the bag, I was...
Need an easy way to clean toys? Put them in a mesh, laundry bag and run them through the dishwasher. It not only cleans them, but sterilizes them as well!
This week I’ll be in Colorado. I’m going to speak at two MOPS groups, to do some recording for Focus on the Family, and to get the word out to the moms in Colorado that there will be a Hearts at Home conference in Colorado October 7-8! Over 28 years of...
Congratulations to Erin (erinb1) and Katie (Geiger) who won the drawing for the devotional from Tuesday’s Slow Down and Simplify discussion. Here’s God’s truth for our Easter weekend from Matthew 28: After the Sabbath, as the first light of the new...
“”Give up,” I was told. But how could I? I wasn’t thinking of him as a boy who needed adoption. In my heart he was already my son. I simply had to bring him home.” ~Cheryl Carter Shotts
Today I’m excited to introduce something new on my blog. Hearts at Home is an organization for moms. A little more than a year ago we invited mom bloggers to become Hearts at Home bloggers. Several times a year we asked them to share about Hearts at Home on their...
Today’s post is one I wrote for the Hearts at Home Hearts On-The-Go monthly e-newsletter. I don’t usually repeat content from the newsletter to the blog, but with Easter just days away, this message is one that I feel bears repeating. If you’re not...
The most effective place for us to slow down and simplify is to soak in God’s Word at some point in our day. When my kids were little, I kept a Bible in every bathroom so I could “refuel” on God’s truth in the very few minutes I might have a...
For the last part of last week and the first part of this week, we’re focusing on slowing down and simplifying. Today’s Marriage Monday continues on in that theme. Mark says… When Jill and I have our schedule maxed out, our marriage suffers. We...
“A surplus of emotion usually precedes acting without wisdom.” ~Jennifer Rothschild
Today’s “slow down and simplify” assignment is to stop what you are doing at some point throughout the day. Let your “to do” list go, realize that the housework will still be there when you are done, and simply take 15 minutes to play...
Do you remember the two great guest posts by Shari Braendel last August? She was the one who taught us how to dress for our body shape? (You can find those posts HERE and HERE if you missed them.) She’s featured today on Focus on the Family’s LIVE...
Last Thursday was the final day of the Ultimate Blog Party. What a great week it was getting to meet some wonderful moms and find some wonderful new blogs! I decided to draw one extra winner for the Professionalizing Motherhood books I was giving away from those who...
In one of our more difficult seasons of marriage, we discovered that we were speaking different languages to each other. Mark was loving me the way he wanted to be loved and I was loving him the way I wanted to be loved. The problem was that we felt unloved by each...
“When you are walking with God, there is no such thing as an interruption.” Becky Kempf
