Wedding Anniversary: Traditions and Tips

We love traditions.   Here are a few wedding anniversary traditions I’m so glad we started right at the beginning. 1. We celebrate. 2. We have traded off planning our annual celebration. 3. We chose to loosely adhere to traditional wedding gifts. See the list here under “gifts.” 4. Every year we ask each other […]

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Hope Heals: Book Review

Snuggled up on a cool Sunday afternoon during naptime and came to the end of this beautiful book. Some books become like good friends that are hard to say goodbye to. Hope Heals is just such a book. Written by a husband wife team – Jay and Katherine Wolf – one of my favorite parts of the […]

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Book Suggestions: Top 7

I’ve had lots of people asking for book suggestions and I recently put this list together for my friend Janelle and a group of moms in her area. I thought I’d share my Top 7. Some have reviews on the blog that you can read, others I have not reviewed here on the blog yet; but stay […]

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An Unbalanced Life

Seasons, phases, transitions. They rule my life. One of my favorite parenting tips is to remember that for most ‘things,’  good or bad, “it’s just a phase.” I use that to remind myself to enjoy the good ones and not stress about the bad ones. Cashel is doing lots of mixing, pouring, and overall mess […]

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