Homeschooling Can Be Isolating This blog uses referral links. Please read my disclosure policy. Someone recently asked me this simple question: "What do you wish you would have known when you started homeschooling?" It really got me thinking. You know what? 15 years later, our homeschool looks NOTHING like it did when we first started … [Read more...] about What I Wish I’d Known When I Started Homeschooling
Encouragement for Moms
You Can Stay Home with Your Kids
100 Tips, Tricks, and Ways to Make It Work on a Budget This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. You Can Stay Home with Your Kids!: 100 Tips, Tricks, and Ways to Make It Work on a Budget is a guide to saving money by Erin Odom, author of The Humbled Homemaker blog. This book contains tips and tricks for living on a … [Read more...] about You Can Stay Home with Your Kids
A Memory a Day for Moms
5-Year Inspirational Journal for Moms This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. If you find yourself caught up in a moment with your kids, and you intend to commit to memory, only to find yourself wondering, 'Now, what was it he said?', then a memory journal is just the thing you need. I love to track my kids' cute … [Read more...] about A Memory a Day for Moms
Why You Need a Blogging Group
Have you found a blogging group? Blogging is hard work! You are working to grow your blog, spending precious hours to write posts, create images, and promote your content. Yet, you are finding that it is really difficult to market your blog alone. Rather than giving up on your dreams, find out 5 ways being part of a group can save your blog. As … [Read more...] about Why You Need a Blogging Group
Slow Down: Embracing the Everyday Moments of Motherhood
Embracing the Everyday Moments of Motherhood This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. When you are smack in the middle of the busy mom years, you find yourself constantly wishing for more time. Time flies by, and though new moms probably hear it often, they won't really understand until their kids are older. It's hard … [Read more...] about Slow Down: Embracing the Everyday Moments of Motherhood
Praying for Girls
Asking God for the Things They Need Most This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Praying for Girls: Asking God for the Things They Need Most by Teri Lynne Underwood is a wonderful resource for moms of girls, not only as a prayer guide, but also as a devotional and resource of ideas for growing a closer mother-daughter … [Read more...] about Praying for Girls
The NKJV Woman’s Study Bible
Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Unabashedly feminine, The NKJV Woman's Study Bible: Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation has every feature a woman's Bible should have. Every detail of this Bible invites women to delve into … [Read more...] about The NKJV Woman’s Study Bible
Tranquility: A Prayer and Reflection Coloring Journal
Taking Time for Tranquility This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Creativity through journaling, coloring, and drawing when combined with time in God's Word not only helps to deepen your faith, but it also brings calmness and 'centeredness' to your days. Tranquility: A Prayer and Reflection Coloring Journal from … [Read more...] about Tranquility: A Prayer and Reflection Coloring Journal
Only Love Today
Reminders to Live a Heart Led Life This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love by Rachel Macy Stafford is a "resource of encouragement" anytime you need some. Rachel's heart for helping other women shines through in this book that reminds us to stop … [Read more...] about Only Love Today
The Women of Easter
Encounters with the Savior for Easter This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Three women in the Bible named Mary--Mary of Bethany, Mary of Nazareth, and Mary Magdalene--each have encounters with Jesus that transform their lives. Best-selling author Liz Curtis Higgs teaches us how these encounters relate to our lives … [Read more...] about The Women of Easter
Everything Beautiful
A Coloring Book for Inspiration and Reflection This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. A good coloring book offers a much needed respite for busy, tired moms to inspire creativity and quiet reflection. Everything Beautiful: A Coloring Book for Reflection and Inspiration is a perfect way to spend that quiet time while … [Read more...] about Everything Beautiful
Unstuffed: Decluttering Your Home, Mind & Soul
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Decluttering Your Home, Mind & Soul Ruth Soukup's newest book, Unstuffed: Decluttering Your Home, Mind, and Soul is a manual for decluttering your life--and not just the physical stuff. Ruth offers readers a chance to take a hard look at how clutter affects us and weighs … [Read more...] about Unstuffed: Decluttering Your Home, Mind & Soul
You Are Not Alone: Encouragement for the Heart of a Military Spouse
Encouragement for the Military Spouse If you're a military spouse or family member, Jen McDonald's new book will bring you immense comfort and encouragement. You Are Not Alone: Encouragement for the Heart of a Military Spouse is a collection of thirty days of readings that get right to the heart of the struggles and hard times that come with … [Read more...] about You Are Not Alone: Encouragement for the Heart of a Military Spouse
Money Making Mom
Learning to be a Money Making Mom Money-Making Mom: How Every Woman Can Earn More and Make a Difference by Crystal Paine is a plan for busy moms to manage money, generate income, and share their success with others. In Money Making Mom, Crystal outlines the "power and pitfalls" of money, and she offers advice to help you: consider multiple … [Read more...] about Money Making Mom
Five Minutes of Peace
Finding Peace in a Busy Day This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Making Today Matter Do you ever have time in your day to carve out five minutes of peace? If you're a mom, that question probably makes you chuckle. It doesn't matter how old your kids are, finding a little bit of time for peace and quiet can be a … [Read more...] about Five Minutes of Peace
Living Well, Spending Less
Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life by Ruth Soukup, who runs a blog by the same name, is a bluntly honest account of her personal struggle with budgeting, organization, and contentment. I think most women, and especially moms, can relate to Ruth's story of trying to provide a beautiful home, beautiful meals, and a beautiful … [Read more...] about Living Well, Spending Less
Worry Less So You Can Live More
Dealing with Worry Are you a worrier? I think all of us have things that keep us up at night, at least from time to time. Hopefully, those things don't overwhelm us and cause us to worry all the time. Worry is unhealthy. It leads to stress and causes anxiety, exhaustion, and a host of other health problems. Tired (literally) of living with … [Read more...] about Worry Less So You Can Live More
Mothering from Scratch
Mothering from Scratch: Finding the Best Parenting Style for You and Your Family by Melinda Means & Kathy Helgemo is like sitting down with a friend. I received a review copy so I can share my thoughts with you. This little gem gives moms permission to embrace their parenting style and realize that they don't have to fit anyone else's view … [Read more...] about Mothering from Scratch
30 Days to Lay Aside Weight
30 Days to Lay Aside Weight: A Faith Based Approach to Whole Body Fitness in Mind, Body and Soul is free on Amazon/Kindle today (Wednesday, 2/18/15)! I am a contributor to this faith-based whole body approach to simple fitness, founded on the theme of Hebrews 12:1. . . let us lay aside every weight . . . which so easily ensnares us, and let us … [Read more...] about 30 Days to Lay Aside Weight
Nourished
Are you living a nourished life? Mother/daughter team Becky Johnson and Rachel Randolph help readers tackle the Top 10 Stressors that women face daily in their new collaboration Nourished: A Search for Health, Happiness, and a Fill Night's Sleep. The publisher sent me a review copy so I could share this book with you. As a busy working mom, I can … [Read more...] about Nourished
