Positivity– Focus on the good things in your life this week. How can you have a positive influence on the atmosphere in the home? Moms have such an influence for positive or negative. I know that how I react to others affects the entire mood of our home. When the family members come home How…
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Come, Follow Me
Interested in studying the New Testament this year with your family? Come, Follow Me is a new program that we have started this year. It has a lot of great ideas for studying the New Testament together with your family. It’s purpose is to deepen your conversion to Christ and to help you become more…
Weekly Challenge #2-Prayer
Weekly challenge 2-Pray for your kids.
Weekly Challenge #1-Time
This week’s challenge is to spend more time with your family this week. Time. It comes. It goes. It never seems to be enough! You really can decide what you do with it! This week’s challenge is to focus a little bit more on your kids and your spouse. Give them your full attention when…
GOALS
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACCOMPLISH THIS YEAR??? It’s that time of year when we start to think about making resolutions and goals for the new year. I love January! I love setting goals and looking at ways to refocus and improve in my life. New year, new beginnings. Goals really help put an emphasis…
Planning and Organizing Your Time
Planning has always been something I enjoy! Call me crazy but I love researching future events and locations as well as organizing everything on the calendar. “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” “Do or Do Not, there is no try.”-Yoda. Just make a plan-you won’t regret it! We all have the same…
New Year’s Eve Traditions
It’s a fun time of year! Lots of holiday celebrations and lots of yummy goodies! I love all of our family’s New Year’s traditions! Food-Some years we have everyone bring their favorite appetizer. We’ve done fancy candlelight dinners. We went to the Melting Pot one year and ever since then we have made fondue. It…
Patience
How can you have more patience in Motherhood? I asked some friends what is one parenting skill they’d like to improve and many said they wanted to have more patience. I realized yesterday after waiting 1 1/2 hours for something they said would take 30 minutes…that I wasn’t a very patient person and probably shouldn’t…
Are You a Gracious Receiver
Is this not the biggest poinsettia you have ever seen? This was a thank you gift from a family that my daughter has been helping out at church. I’ve been thinking a lot about how special it was to receive this gift. It seems like I often forget to thank the giver of services rendered…