Quote of the Week

“Life is lived forward, but understood backward. It is not until we are down the road and we stand on the mountain looking back through the valley that we can appreciate the terrain God has allowed us to scale.”                                            ...

Got Some Regrets You’d Like God to Redeem?

Today’s guest post is from Jerusha Clark.  Jerusha is a speaker at our 2014 Hearts at Home conferences including the upcoming North Central Hearts at Home Conference November 7-8! She’s the bestselling author or co-author of ten books, including Every...

Successful Strategies for Managing School Papers

It’s that time of the year again. No matter whether you homeschool or send your kids to private or public school, the influx of papers has begun! I’ve spent over 25 years managing school papers. Some years I fared better than others. Some strategies worked...

Five Easy Steps To Reading The Bible

Today’s post is a guest post from my friend, Donna Jones. Donna is a favorite Hearts at Home conference speaker and author of three books including Taming Your Family Zoo, Raising Kids with Good Manners and her latest, SEEK: A Woman’s Guide to Meeting God....

The Real Message of Easter

Jesus experienced terrible physical pain. He was betrayed by a friend. He was disappointed by his friends who fell asleep when they should have been praying and when they denied knowing him. He was falsely accused. I’ve experience physical pain. I’ve been...

Love Your Struggles!

Today is the Third Thursday Blog Hop and our theme is Love Your Struggles. Chemo Brain. That’s my struggle. It is evident because I FORGOT THAT TODAY WAS THE THIRD THURSDAY and I’m getting my post up late! My apologies to all my fellow bloggers who link up...

My Favorite Children’s Bible Story Books

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway and shared your ideas for telling your kids Bible stories!  If you haven’t had time to read the comments, you might want to do so because they are full of wonderful ideas on how to impart Bible stories to your kids...

Phase 1 done; Phase 2 begins

Well I’m three weeks out from my lumpectomy and sentinel node removal. The good news is that there was no cancer in my lymph nodes!  This is the value of catching this early while the cancer is still localized. If you’re 40 or over, schedule your mammogram...

One of my favorites

I love worship music. This is one of my current favorites: Forever Reign by Hillsong Live. Enjoy! (If you can’t see the video below, click here!)

Christmas and Perfection

Christmas and perfection. While we don’t usually think of those two words as related, I can think of two ways they are. The first is that most of us want to create the “Perfect Christmas” for our families. We want to find the perfect gift, make perfect cookies, create...

This and that….and a giveaway!

Is anyone else still pinching themselves that it is December already?  Oh my!  The late Thanksgiving really has thrown me off!  Please tell me I’m not the only one! If you’re here from Lysa Terkeurst’s blog today….welcome!  So glad you stopped...

The Women of Christmas

I know, I know…it’s not even Thanksgiving and I’m already talking about Christmas!  I’m not usually one to jump the gun on Christmas, but I want to tell you about a book I’m reading by Liz Curtis Higgs! Liz was a speaker at a Hearts at...

Tornado Recovery

Two years ago my family made two trips to help with tornado recovery in Joplin, Missouri. I saw devastation like never before. We spent our days collecting household items and important papers that had been strewn all over the city, hoping to somehow connect the item...

Do. It. Now.

Yesterday we were discussing home organization in our Professionalizing Motherhood book study on Facebook.  It soon became obvious that home organization is a challenge for many of us moms. As a recovering messy myself, I have found one strategy that makes a HUGE...