It’s the Marriage Getaway Giveaway!

Mark and I just returned from 48 hours in Orlando, Florida as part of the Celebrate Family tour with Focus on the Family.  It was so exciting to meet some of our Florida blog and Facebook friends!This was a little getaway for just the two of us.  Sure there...

Living With Less…Don’t Confuse Luxuries With Necessities

One of my favorite mommy bloggers is Crystal Paine who blogs at www.moneysavingmom.com.  When reading through the articles on her website I ran across one where she shared about her decision to stop buying paper towels.  While not buying paper towels...

Marriage Monday: Scheduling Sex

Mark teases that Is There Really Sex After Kids? is the book he’s most astonished that I wrote.  He has reason to feel that way because our physical relationship was at the core of much of our marriage conflict and frustration for the first 10 years of our...

Are we coming to your neck of the woods?

Mark and I have several events on the calendar over the next few months.  We might even be coming to your area!  If you live in Central Florida, the St. Louis area, or in Central Illinois, we’d love to meet you!  If you don’t live near these...

Living With Less…Homemade Costs Less

At the beginning of the year I shared with you the ministry transition that Mark and I felt God leading us to make.  Mark resigned from his pastoral ministry and we are now speaking, writing, and encouraging families through Hearts at Home full-time….with a...

A Boy and His Boat

After adopting Kolya at the age of 9, we soon realized this young man thrived with a hammer in his hand.  He loved anything to do with creating, fixing, or building.We also discovered several years ago this same boy loves to fish.  Everytime we’d go to...

Marriage Monday: Love and Respect

Several years ago Mark and I were introduced to a great marriage book by Emerson Eggerichs called Love and Respect.  This book transformed our thinking in many ways. The book Love and Respect is based upon the Bible verse from Ephesians 5:33 which says,...

Blog Tune Up

We’ve been tuning up some of the pages on my blog today.  So if you receive my blog updates by email, just ignore any out of the ordinary posts, such as “Request Jill As A Speaker.”  Thanks for your patience!