My Top 5 Favorite Things of the Month
April Edition I always love doing these posts each month! I like sharing with you some of my favorite things I use or enjoy regularly around our home. What are some of your favorite things you use around the house? Would love to hear some of your favorites! Comment below and share with me! 🙂 If you’d like to see what my favorites were some other months you can see them HERE, or HERE, Onto this month’s list…. #1: Grove Collective Soap Collection I just purchased and started using this about a month ago. To be completely honest, I got it because I liked the LOOK of it! The clean…
The Power of the Cross
It’s Easter Week I don’t know about any of you….but Easter truly is my favorite holiday of the year! For so many different reasons it means that spring is here or close (depending on when Easter falls) it means that the long winter is over and new life is coming I used to LOVE getting the older kids their new Easter outfits for church but most importantly, I love what Easter stands for – Jesus’ resurrection from the dead! His overcoming death and Satan! I’ll explain later why this is so important to me Wow….looking back at those pictures brings back so many memories! Such a busy time of…
Touched by Adoption – Seth’s Story
Several weeks ago, I shared with you the story of Grace’s adoption. I received so much positive feedback from that post and I wanted to thank you for that! Sharing your story can be super fun, super hard, and/or super vulnerable….more than likely all three! As I’ve said before, Greg and I have 8 children – 5 adopted and 3 biological. EACH ONE of their stories has God’s fingerprints all over them! Whether adopted or not – each of our kids was hand chosen by God to be in our family. This is such a reassurance to us – especially during the difficult seasons of life with children that we…
Spring is here!!
or so the calendar says So my family and I just returned from an early spring break to visit our son, daughter-in-love, and grandbaby! They live in New Mexico….we, on the other hand, live in Michigan. Temperatures were quite different! It is decidedly colder here today – but sunny and I will take the sun!! We went earlier than the scheduled spring break our little ones have because Greg has to work this spring break and we wanted our older daughters to be able to join us so we went during their spring break. What a great time having most of our family together! Grace couldn’t come until the day…
8 tips to help those who are thinking about adopting
Advice on Adoption from a 5 time Adoptive Mom The complex makeup of our family Our family is a large, complicated, much loved, and diverse one. We have a total of 8 children – 5 are adopted and 3 are biological. Each one of these childeren were meant to be in our family. God has gifted our family with all its highs and lows. His fingerprints were over each and everyone of their stories. It has been 22 years since we adopted our first child and 11 since our last. How we became a family: Caleb is our oldest and born with the help of months of infertility treatments. …
Favorite things – March edition
Time for another month of my favorite things! Wow I know that February is the shortest month of the year – but WHERE’D IT GO!?!?!!? It’s the first Monday of the month and it’s time to share my top 5 favorite things! It is still brutally cold here in Michigan so one of my top items is still being used frequently! 🙂 Let’s get started! #1: Ikea Fintorp storage caddy I’ve seen this storage caddy used in SO many ways! I personally use it in 2 different places in our home – one in our office and another at our coffee bar. You could use it in a craft…
5 step guide to Meal planning
Meal planning – or wing it method? Which one are you? How many of you get busy with your day only to come to what I call the “witching hour” and try to figure out what you’re going to make for supper?!? First of all….how many people call it supper anymore? 🙂 I think the average person refers to their evening meal as dinner now, but I was raised with Breakfast – Dinner – Supper. It’s funny because I’ve changed my noontime meal to lunch, it’s just the evening meal has always been supper. Is that a Dutch thing? Ok SQUIRREL!! (I always seem to do that – go one…
How do you talk to your child about death?
Do you have to tell your child someone in their life has died and don’t know how to do it? Is your child grieving the death of someone and you don’t know how to help them? Today’s topic is quite a serious one, but one that I think alot of people wonder about – children and grief. We’ll look at several topics related to children and grief such as: what age a child begins to understand death how do you tell a child that someone has died how do you explain death to a child How do you help support a grieving child Should your child attend the funeral A…
Favorite things – february edition
It’s that time again! Time to share my favorite things! I love reading people’s favorite things lists. My hope by doing my favorite things list you will get to know me better and maybe I can share about something you’ve never heard of or tried before. So let’s dive right in! Favorite Thing #1: Gracefully Wrapped Jewelry I found THE CUTEST Etsy shop recently. The jewelry maker’s name is Marianne and she is the sweetest woman with 3 beautiful children and one on the way. She is a Godly soul and her entire shop and jewlery are based on the fact that we are all wrapped in the grace of…
The MOST AMAZING chocolate chip cookie you have ever tasted!!!
Something just wasn’t right! So I woke up this morning to the realization that something was wrong in my kitchen. I didn’t quite know what it was at first – just a feeling of “off-ness” settled over me. As I walked into my kitchen, I didn’t see anything out of place. The typical cups in the sink that weren’t loaded into the dishwasher the night before. The finished puzzle on our desk that Greg had finished the night before. Sawyer’s (our schnoodle) toys sprawled haphazzardly around the kitchen floor. But nothing major was sticking out to me, then I saw it. Sitting on the counter… OUR COOKIE JAR WAS…
