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...
For those of you who get my blog posts by email, I’m sooooo sorry that you received so many multiple posts in one email yesterday. I was updating my different blog pages and completely forgot that if I updated the date of the page to the current date it would...
Just a quick reminder that the Best Value Registration deadline for the NorthCentral Hearts at Home conference in Rochester, MN is right around the corner. The conference is November 12-13 (Friday evening, all day Saturday) and the Best Value Registration...
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our...
My friend Angie was over at my house a few weeks ago. We opened my mudroom coat closet to find something and Angie marveled at my unique way of storing winter scarves, hats and gloves with a shoe organizer that I had my husband attach to the inside of the doors...
At the Savage home, our kids know that before they can go to a movie, we have to read about it on Plugged In. Plugged In (www.pluggedin.com) is a website produced by Focus on the Family that provides up to date reviews of new movie releases and information on...
Today’s a holiday…the kids are out of school…and we’re returning from an overnight in Indiana where we celebrated Mark’s mom birthday with a surprise party. So today’s Marriage Monday will depart from it’s normal...
