{eat} In a Pinch Crock Pot Meals

This post about crockpot meals is from the archives. It’s one of my highest-viewed posts of all times so I wanted to bring it back! I rounded up a few recipes for you- including a free printable! The idea is to print this off, stick it on your fridge or wherever your keep recipes, then you […]

Is appreciation really an art?

 I think that it is. Like any art, it takes time to cultivate.  It takes intention. It takes practice and sometime, it takes sacrifice. And what better time to begin refining the art of appreciation than in the month in which we celebrate Thanksgiving? I think that by default, many of us are complainers. (raises hand) […]

We’re Expecting!

Hi friends! Just wanted to let you know that one of the reasons I’ve been a little MIA lately is that we’re expecting a little one! But… I’m not pregnant! How does that work, you may ask? Well, my husband and I have been talking about adoption- albeit very casually- for several years. Last November, […]

Tips for Moving a Large Family

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of CORT. All opinions are 100% mine. Last November, our family moved to our little farmhouse that we remodeled from head to toe. It was our fourth move as a married couple but the first one we’d done with 4 kids. Let me tell you, […]

A delicious summer wrap-up

As I mentioned in my last post, our summer was crazy busy and ended with not one but two weddings on back-to-back weekends in late August. Since Ben is a pastor, we attend A LOT of weddings- mostly with him as the officiant. The last weekend of August he was performing the wedding for some of our […]

Hello from the other side!

…the other side of summer that is. I cannot believe that September is already halfway over and we are on our 4th week of school! That is craziness for sure. This post will serve more or less as a re-cap of summer since I was pretty much an absent blogger this summer. 😉 We didn’t have much planned, […]

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