What’s for dinner tonight?

I’m trying something new these days.  I’m trying to begin dinner plans at breakfast.  I have a loose schedule for meals, but I find that I serve a more well-rounded meal when I think through my meal plan and start my prep first thing in the...

Wednesday’s Words of Encouragement: Money Management for Kids

Money Management for Kidsby Jill SavageEvery child has their own financial personality. Three of our children are savers. Two are spenders. Of course, they take after both my husband and me, who sit at opposite ends of the spending/saving spectrum ourselves.Regardless...

Ultimate Blog Party

Wow!  I have a couple of friends who have turned me on to the Ultimate Blog Party 2010 at 5MINUTESFORMOM.COM.  This has been so much fun because I’ve been meeting so many wonderful moms and discovering some great new mom blogs! Not only that, but...

Marriage Monday: We’re wonderfully incompatible!

Today I’m starting what I hope to be a weekly feature on my blog: Marriage Monday.  Mark and I speak and write together about marriage.  Each Monday we’ll share about a common marriage struggle and how we’ve learned to handle it.  You...

Living With Less…when planning a wedding!

A mom stopped me last summer after reading a newspaper article that stated the average cost of a wedding was now $25,000. “Jill, did you read that article about the cost of weddings these days?” I replied that I had seen the article to which she referred. She...

Friday’s Quote of the Week

“Let your children see you perform seemingly random, yet purposefully planned, acts of kindness.  Then invite them to join you in the...

The Fresh Start of Easter

I love Easter. It is the cornerstone celebration of the Christian faith. Sure, Christmas is pretty important, but if that baby boy didn’t die on the cross for you and for me, we would not have direct access to God each and every day.  And we would...