12 Bible verses for tweens to memorize
Had this idea to do with the kids over the summer I cannot believe that there are only a few weeks left of school this year! I see some schools are already out, but here in Michigan, we’ve had so many snow days that some schools are having to stay in longer to make up those days! Thankfully, our kid’s school waved the extra snow days and they will be done at the scheduled date (one of the benefits of being in a private parochial school! :)) With summer looming ahead, it makes me start planning on activities to do with our two youngest kids. We only have one family…
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…
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…
