What are your favorite family traditions during the Christmas Season? Some of our favorite traditions are as simple as reading the same books every year and looking through our Christmas scrapbooks, sharing stories about previous year’s memories! And who can forget listening to the reading of the story of baby Jesus and singing Silent Night? Of course, we didn’t have all… View Post
Fourteen years ago our family was blessed with our third baby, a little girl. What a joy to receive such a gift at Christmas time. Yes, she was a gift, but this postpartum season was different from my others, as all postpartum experiences are different. I now have a special place in my heart for moms who give birth around… View Post
I’m officially out of my planned postpartum period of 6 weeks. Since my fourth baby, I began making a postpartum plan. This was extremely helpful for me in the last few months of pregnancy to wrap my mind around preparing for postpartum, but it was also hugely helpful to be able to communicate with those I loved so that they… View Post
What does Redeeming Halloween look like? If you are reading this post, most likely you or someone you know has struggled with “celebrating Halloween” like most of our American or World culture does… and you are looking for an alternative. If you are like me, you didn’t want to be the grinch or viewed as some judgmental Christian that thought everyone had to… View Post
Beautiful fall with all its glory. Wonderful bounty, plentiful harvest, and Halloween. Do you ever feel like Halloween ruins it? When I was a young mom, I struggled so much with how to handle Halloween. We were teaching our daughter to love Jesus, to walk in purity, turn from sin, and to also be a LIGHT in the darkness. But where… View Post