Stock up on those crayons!

Operation Christmas child

Now is a GREAT time to start stocking up on school supplies for Operation Christmas Child! We build our boxes together each year as a family and it is always so much fun. The kids get so excited when we find out where our boxes were sent to! So, grab a spare box and start [...]

Motherhood is hard, but it doesn’t have to be wearisome.

Encouragement for tired moms

If you read the title of this post and said, “Weary? Yep, that’s me.” I have a great book to share with you today. Hope for the Weary Mom, by Stacey Thacker and Brooke McGlothlin, is a perfect encouragement for those of us in the throws of motherhood. Stacey and Brooke pour out their hearts, [...]

For When My House is in Chaos

For when my kitchen is a mess… …the living room has exploded… …and the laundry is taking over… …and for when I am weary of it all… …I am thankful that when the God of all order looks at me He sees Christ’s perfect obedience—not all the chaos in my life, nor my disobedience. For [...]

This is a Bible

Our little family had some fun last night, talking about the role of the Bible in our lives and thinking about what life would be like without having a Bible… (The last thing Kenneth says CRACKS ME UP!) We’re joining in the OneVerse Bible Stack Challenge, and you can too! Gather all your Bibles and [...]

What We Give Our Kids for Christmas

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So, we don’t do Santa, but we have decided to allow the giving of gifts, and even in the giving of those gifts at Christmas, we want to point them to Christ. Giving (Just) Three Gifts We’ve chosen to guide our gift-giving through the giving of three gifts. We also want to use the actual [...]