Lately, it has began to sink in just how much importance raising children really holds. What I do now – how I teach them, what I teach them, my behavior and my words, my reactions – will mold them and take effect on what they become; how they’ll function in a career, in a marriage, […]
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Spring Cleaning Essentials
With the start of spring comes the beginning of spring cleaning. Although I’d rather be outside playing in the gorgeous spring weather, deep cleaning our home with a breeze streaming through the windows sounds good, too. Here are some pretty spring cleaning tools to make the task ahead a little more enjoyable. 1. Handcrafted horsehair […]
Our Broken Karlstad
So, our Karlstad broke and I nearly cried. Basically, there is a piece of particle board in the arm that holds the bolts that attach to the seating section of the couch – because you know, IKEA’s furniture are just large puzzles. Well that piece of crucial, load baring particle broke, just tore right in […]
Peek-A-Boop
This girl is a hoot. A real ham. I see her daily making an effort to make people smile; walking up to her brother just to give him a pat, approaching her tantrum-ing sister to say “hey”, and playing peek-a-boo – she’s constantly playing peek-a-boo. This was one of those slow Saturday mornings; bacon and […]
My Favorite Birthday Cakes
My birthday is just around the corner and although birthday’s seem to lose their spark as I get older, I still want to try to do something special – however small it is – on that day. And what’s a better excuse than a birthday to bake a cake!? Even though the girls are sick […]
Flaunt Your Kleenex with Style
It is that commonly known time of the year when runny noses are a part of day-to-day life and coughs are becoming all too familiar. When little children are running around with faucet noses, it’s vital to have tissues close by to wipe noses – and their by-products – quickly, am I right!? However, standard […]
Shelves, Please!
I’ve been on an organizing frenzy lately, which I cannot blame on pregnancy hormones this time around. Storage and organization can be challenging when living in a 700 square-foot home. My usual remedy to an organizing kick is to clean out our three closets and kitchen cabinets, but less things have been turning up in […]
Small Change, Big Impact
Our home is no stranger to Bible verses; there are a few framed in our living room and in the children’s shared room. Our refrigerator even sported small handwritten verses haphazardly placed, which weren’t the best looking and were hard to read. Since our refrigerator can be seen from almost any angle in our living […]
Love is Binary
My husband and I tend to keep Valentine’s day low-key, which I personally prefer to a crowded restaurant – I’ve come to appreciate the simplicity and stillness of nights spent in. To carry out that motif of simplicity, I threw together this printable of the word “love” in binary for my computer proficient husband. I […]
DIY Christmas Branch Garland
This is our third Christmas together as a family. Our first Christmas Nani was nearly a newborn and we had just moved into our house, so we didn’t do much decorating for the season. Last year we were unemployed and only staying afloat by the grace of God, so rather than buying a Christmas tree […]