Do you have your baking done? Is you shopping finished? Do you have the house cleaned? Are you packed for traveling? There are so many things to get done to “do” Christmas. Isn’t it time to let go of some of the expectations for a...
The weekend was a busy one for company in our home with 15 extended family visiting and 10 of them spending the night at our house plus about 50 people who joined us for Erica’s graduation open house on Saturday. That was the best part of the weekend.But in the...
It’s been a busy weekend at the Savage homestead. Thursday evening we got the predicted ice storm. And as you can see by the picture…we were hit hard. We will likely lose a couple of trees that have been damaged by the ice.Tonight we lost our power for a...
Today is a special day at the Savage household. We’re celebrating our daughter’s 18th birthday and her high school graduation.Erica was always a fun child, very inquisitive, and very funny. Finding her pulling all the toilet paper off the roll was a daily...
Today Hearts at Home is launching a new resource in partnership with the Pantagraph. Once a week a one minute mom tip (taped in my home) will be featured on the Pantagraph newspaper website. Here’s the first...
Well from the response to my “Life’s Not Fair” post, I’d say there’s alot more of us “mean” parents out there than we realized! I’ve loved reading about the boundaries you’ve set in your families. I’d say...
Did you all know that my 12-year-old son is the ONLY kid in seventh grade who doesn’t have his own phone? Well at least that’s what he just told me. Honestly, when picking him up after a school basketball game last week, my husband told me that every kid...
Tuesday night my boys and I worked together to fill three shoeboxes to send to Operation Christmas Child. I want this Christmas to be about giving more than any others, because I think it’s important for those of us who have so much to share with those who have...
I’m writing this post from a hotel room in Columbia, Missouri. I traveled here today with four teenagers…what was I thinking?Four weeks ago, our 17-year-old daughter, Erica, told me that she and her friend Elizabeth wanted to give their boyfriends an early...
Today I just found joy in the simple, yet diverse tasks of mothering. There was the usual laundry, making dinner, and checking homework. But today it was two of my older kids that needed my encouragement and time.After making new curtains for her bedroom this weekend...
It’s Hearts at Home weekend in Minnesota! We have over 2,000 moms registered and walk-in registration is still available. For those of you who can’t join us at a conference, I’m bringing a little bit of Hearts to you today.This video is from our 2008...
This video was one I showed at the 2007 Hearts at Home conferences. Our theme was “Extreme Home Makeover” and I gave everyone a video tour of the Savage home and places I’d love to do a makeover of some kind. I think you’ll find my house is...
This video is a powerful reminder that the advertising media doesn’t always tell us the truth. If you have pre-teen and teenage daughters, you might want to share this with them. We can’t compare ourselves to what we see in magazines, on television, and on...
Here are some new Hearts at Home promotional videos. You can download these and show them to your moms group or church to organize a group to come to a Hearts at Home conference.Some of you have asked if Hearts at Home will come to your area. We have as many...
Check out the Family Life Mom Blog…it’s a great resource for moms!
