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Simple At-Home Sensory Activities
When we think of Sensory Activities playdough is usually what comes to mind. I love some good playdough, but I wanted to share with you…
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Crafting a Biblical Family Vision Statement
In my previous post on Blessing Your Children, I promised that I would also address crafting a Family Vision Statement. My husband and I crafted…
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Audacious Arrows
I am so excited to share my latest project with you all! Audacious Arrows is a Bible reading podcast for kids. If you’ve read any…
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Blessing Your Children, How and Why
Bless your children! What on earth do you mean, Ruth? Think of Isaac blessing Jacob and Esau, laying his hands on them and speaking a…
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Daily Devotions for Young Children
In a previous post I laid out some principles for making daily Bible reading a habit for young children. I would encourage you to go…
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How To Teach Kids To Make Daily Bible Reading A Habit
Bible reading is like eating food. To be spiritually healthy we need to consume God’s word on a regular basis. I have written on the…
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14 Things Siblings Can Do With The Baby
Our newest family addition has three big sisters! They are all obsessed with the her and they all want to play a part. Each sibling…
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Helping Children Respond to Sin: 4 Positive Discipleship Strategies
I don’t know about your home, but ours is full of sinners! There are six of us plus a dog living in a home that…
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11 Ways to Really Help a New Mom
Recently, we had our fourth baby girl. I was the recipient of an incredible outpouring of kindness from my friends, family, and church. I literally…
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Why We Don’t Teach Our Kids to Share and What We Do Instead
It’s not that we don’t want generous and kind children. We certainly do! Which is why we don’t “teach our kids to share”. Instead we…
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Teaching Kids to Tell Time with a Free Ebook!
There is a tipping point in every parent’s life where teaching kids to tell time becomes essential. When they are little you can say “in…
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Big Ideas for Biblical Discipline
Discipline is one of those words where if you stare at it long enough it looks like something foreign from what you originally thought. I…
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Training Children to Deal with Fear
With Halloween around the corner we find no shortage of opportunities to help our kids deal with fear. We have a neighbor who has a…
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7 Tips for Successful Family Devotions
Over the past 7 years there have been so many times where my husband and I have felt utterly defeated by family devotions. Either we…
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How to Start a Quiet Time for Toddlers and Kids
I have a 17 month old. She is in that ultra busy stage where she can empty all the dresser drawers, unwind a roll of…
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Top 10 Reasons Everyone in your Family Needs Alone Time to Thrive
The other day I was watching my oldest daughter playing in the front yard. She was swinging and singing and very happy not knowing I…
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Core Values for a Post-Christian Culture: 10 Biblical Truths to Teach our Children
As I read the news headlines and watch my social media feed, it is plain to see that we are increasingly living in a world…
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What Happens at Home when Mom Reads the Bible
School starts next week. I have intentions of packing amazingly nutritious lunches every day, and welcoming them home each day to a picture perfect tray…
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Raising Kids with an Eternal Mindset
I was listening to Paradise by the Gray Havens. This phrase stuck out to me and it spurred a whole rabbit trail of thoughts about…
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Family Road Trip Activities and Free Printables
We recently went on a road trip. My husband has family in Western Kansas which is about a 12-hour drive for us. We don’t take…
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YNAB – Planning A Kids Birthday Party on a Budget
I want to share with you how we do wonderful and exciting birthdays for cheap. I mean really cheap. My kids party budget is $25.
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These are a few of my favorite things for bugs, nails, and water!
I thought I would take a moment to recommend some of my favorite things this summer! Here are my latest top 3
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Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Responding to Complaining
We all have seasons of more or less “various trials” (James 2) and I have been thinking quite a bit about how we think and talk about those seasons with one another. On the one hand, my “trials” are very real. On the other hand, I look at my friend with 7 young children who also homeschools them all and works part-time and I think, “Gee, I must be a real weakling to think my stuff is hard!”
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Fight Anxiety in Motherhood and Stop Being a Worried Mom
Worry is a normal part of motherhood, but normal doesn’t mean good. Gain practical insights into how to fight anxiety in motherhood.
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How to Raise Caterpillars: A Vivid Object Lesson on Resurrection
My dad sparked my interest in butterflies as a young child. We would go on “butterfly hunts” and order chrysalises from catalogs together. Hoping to recreate those wonderful memories with my own kids we have made a little tradition each summer of delving into the magical world of butterfies!
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12 Movies and Shows We Love
If you’ve exhausted your current list of family-friendly movies perhaps one of these 6 might be a novel suggestion. Get some popcorn ready!
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8 Insights To Baby Language That Will Explode Your Mothering World!
Recently, a friend was telling me about how her 15-month-old struggles to stay in her crib. She bemoaned, “If only she spoke English!” I think…
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How to Teach Your Child to do Any Chore
You can bark at your kids all day to put the clean laundry away, tidy their room, or feed the dog, but it won’t do a bit of good if they don’t know how to do those chores!
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Ten Tips to Read Your Bible as a Busy Mom
There is nothing that will impact your roles as a wife, mother, homemaker, etc. more than a steady diet of Bible in your life.
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Your Quick Clean-Up Toolbox for Kids – Avoid Mess Frustration!
Kids messes tend to wear us down because they are so daily – hourly even! Here is a little toolbox of strategies to use so that you lose it less often.
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Quick Tip: Solve the shoes on backward dilemma forever!
Here is a simple trick to avoid the “Oops, they are on the wrong feet” moment.
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40 Things Frugal Moms Actually Need For The First Baby
I remember looking up registry ideas on the interwebs when I was expecting my first baby. Getting lost in Pinterest finding lists like “The Ultimate Amazon Baby Registry Checklist: Must Haves from an Experienced Mom” or “WHAT DO YOU REALLY NEED TO REGISTER FOR WHEN YOU ARE EXPECTING YOUR FIRST BABY?”. I would read them and discover a lot of fancy items that weren’t actually necessities. Sure, that wipes warmer might be neat but was it something I actually needed? Fortunately, I had some older women in my life to tell me what was truly a need, and it wasn’t a “blooming sink bather”.
