Happy Birthday and Happy Graduation, Erica!

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...

Video Tips for Moms

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...

We’re not alone!

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...

Life’s so not fair!

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...

Focus on the Giving

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...

Dream Maker or Dream Taker?

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...

All in a days work

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...

Videos I Want To Share Day 5

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...

Videos I Want To Share Day 4

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...

Videos I Want To Share Day 3

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...

Videos I Want To Share Day 2

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...

All or Nothing

The last month has been a challenging month for me physically. I haven’t felt well with my fibromyalgia and because of that, I stopped exercising. When I visited the doctor she asked if I was exercising and I couldn’t lie.”I was all summer,” I...

Learning about life and death

We’ve left our momma cat alone for a couple of days, but today we climbed the ladder again and took a peek. We saw three beautiful little kittens and unfortunately one dead one. Of course, Mark wasn’t home and there was already a horrible stench so Kolya...

Home As A Cultural Center

In my book My Heart’s At Home, I look at all the roles that home plays in our life such as Home as a Safe House, Home as a Trauma Unit, Home as a Rest Area…I think you get the idea. One of the chapters is Home As a Cultural Center and it focuses on home...