“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please...
Looking for something good to do with those bananas that are about to go bad? This Banana Cake recipe was my grandmother’s recipe and it is soooooo good. My kids love it and ask for it anytime the bananas on the counter are getting dark!Savage Family...
This is a pretty powerful 4 minute video. Would you watch it, share it with your spouse, and consider being a Compassion child sponsor along with our family? (If you get my blog posts by email, click here to watch the video.)True Religion from Christian Alliance...
Several months ago I helped a friend gain control of her finances. Working full-time was talking a toll on her homemaking and her finances so I offered some help and she took me up on it.After sorting through financial papers and receipts, she confessed that she...
Every person is created differently. We have different personalities. Different needs. Different capacity levels. Today’s Marriage Monday explores the concept of capacity in marriage.Mark says…Dictionary.com defines capacity as...
During the month of October we’ve been seeing pink everywhere. Pink ribbons, pink shoes on the feet of macho football players, pink lights in the windows of tall skyscrapers in the city. It’s a concentrated effort to bring visibility to one of the most...
It’s been a while since I’ve shared a picture of my sweet little Rilyn. Can you tell why I’m a proud Nana?
We do a garden every year and we’re always working to expand our palate. This year we planted acorn squash and I got a great harvest. Now I’ve been working to find the best way to prepare it…and I think I finally found it! If...
When Mark and I wrote the book the Living With Less So Your Family Has More we wanted to challenge families to live with less stress, less activities, and less money than is culturally acceptable. I recently discovered the CWIVES website: Christian Wives...
Jill says…In the same way that a woman longs to be loved, a man longs to be respected. In fact, if a woman feels loved she will likely respect her husband. And if a man feels respected, he will naturally show love to his wife.Mark says…But the opposite is...
Our discussion on Thursday about storing children’s artwork was so helpful! My blog posts appear on Facebook, too, and one Facebook friend recommended http://www.dynamicframes.com/. I’d never seen these unique frames before and I wanted to make sure and...
“Your children can wait while you tend to your marriage. Your marriage will not wait while you tend to your...
I received this question on Facebook this week. You’ll find my response to her below. However, I told her there is a wealth of information from the thousands of moms (and some dads!) who hang out here in the blog world. What suggestions would you have...
Here are some beautiful words from God’s word for you and me today:“Keep your lives simple and honest. Embrace truth! Love peace!” ...
Mark and I spend alot of time mentoring broken marriages. A large percentage of those relationships are broken because of infidelity. And most of the time those affairs happened not because someone set out to have an affair, but because there were no protective...
