How I Organize My Recipes
I’m a paper and pencil kind of gal. Sure I store a lot of data online or on my laptop, but when it comes to recipes, I still like cookbooks and magazines. Sometimes my computer is slow or I can’t...
View ArticleSometimes Being Brave Means Saying No
The ballet shoes haven’t been touched in weeks. Donut won’t even play with them, won’t even look at them. We signed her up for a summer ballet camp. It seemed so natural to enroll her–she loves...
View ArticleBegin Again
I know, I sort of disappeared. Only I didn’t. Maybe I did from the blog, but I was more present at home, in front of people. But wow, were these past few months busy and rushed and frantic and...
View ArticleMaking Mom’s Life Easier
I have been invited to partner with LG’s VIP Blogger Program and couldn’t be more excited to be an #LGMom! This post is part of a series of posts I will be writing under the sponsorship of LG. As busy...
View ArticleLove Lessons
I don’t feel like I really know much of marriage. When my friend Laura asked me to write about marriage for her #WritingVows series, I felt lost. What could I possibly write about? I don’t have any...
View ArticleNeighborly Love
{source} My husband declared a moratorium on me bringing meals to friends or families from church. I was really upset about and fought him on it. After all, people had been incredibly generous with...
View ArticleABC Toddler Matching Game {Download}
I wanted to find an easy matching alphabet game for Donut, but instead of searching the internet and Pinterest for hours and getting drawn into other interesting posts and pins and ending up looking...
View ArticleOk Moms, It’s Time to ‘Fess Up
I have been invited to partner with LG’s VIP Blogger Program and couldn’t be more excited to be an #LGMom! This post is part of a series of posts I will be writing under the sponsorship of LG....
View ArticleYou Will Miss These Days
I confess that I get really cranky when my house is a mess. And it’s a mess more often than not. I got upset when I almost tripped over a doll crib that was left out in the middle of the living room...
View ArticleH-E-B Diapers Review: New Design & Fit
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of H-E-B Baby Diapers. I’ve mentioned here about how I like to use cloth diapers on my baby. But the majority of the time, we do use disposable diapers...
View ArticleLast Minute Crafts: Spring Flowers
Well, it’s finally warmed up here. Hooray! To celebrate the nice spring weather, I decided that Donut needed a craft activity that was all about spring. It had been so long since we’d seen any...
View ArticleAbundance
I took Donut to an Easter egg hunt at our local rec center. It was indoors and by the time we got inside, a lot of the eggs had already been picked up. I told her to go gather some eggs. She ran...
View ArticleBloom
I’ve had this photograph for 2 years now. It’s one of my favorites. It was taken in March, when I was waiting for winter to thaw and spring to bloom. I was taking pictures in the yard, and then I...
View ArticleLast Minute Crafts: Valentine’s Hearts Hanging Ornament
I really wanted to decorate the house for Valentine’s Day this year. I had fun crafts in mind, we were going to hang heart banners…but, alas, flu and RSV hit our house. Bad. We were knocked out for...
View ArticleBringing Home (Another) Baby
Of course I worried about how I would transition from one child to two. It’s only natural to wonder who you and the rest of the family will adjust. I don’t have this thing perfected–and truthfully, I...
View ArticleA Greener Cleaner & A Giveaway
The winner of the giveaway is Amanda! Congrats & I hope you enjoy the cleaner! We have bought several toys secondhand for our children. Especially toys that we only use for the baby stage, since...
View ArticleSea Glass
The words just haven’t been there. Or rather, they’ve been tumbling inside of me but I wasn’t capable of putting them together until now. I.Am.Struggling. Those are the words. It’s not that I’m having...
View ArticleSecond Time Mom
There have been many, many times over the last few weeks since Baby Brother arrived that I’ve thought to myself, “I wish I could’ve been a second-time mom the first time around.” It’s already been 6...
View ArticleA Random August Update
Time got away from me last week. My parents were visiting which was wonderful (and oh so helpful), but of course I still had my hands full and barely have two hands free in order to write a blog post....
View ArticleMultiplication and Division
When I was pregnant, I knew my heart would grow to love two babies. While I was nervous about having a boy, there was never any doubt that I would love him like crazy. The one thing that I wasn’t...
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