While having only one day to celebrate the mom in your life (or yourself!) is not enough, we love the chance to gather a few of our favorite books for Christian moms into one list. If you’re a mom, we hope you set aside some time to relax this Mother’s Day—reading, sleeping, sitting on the porch, or whatever is most refreshing for you! Our favorite of these options is to read and spend some time in the Word, so we picked plenty of devotionals, books on prayer, and books for growing your faith for this list! Of course, we love letting our minds escape from everyday life for a while with a clea ..read more

If you feel too much pressure for homemaking to look a certain way, it’s time to step back and remember God’s Word and the freedom it brings. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” Colossians 3:23-24 Homemaking Before Social Media When I became a mom, there were no iPhones, no social media, no Pinterest. I held onto my Blackberry for as long as possible and didn’t join Facebook until 2010. This gave me ..read more

Creating a happy marriage depends on each spouse living for God and seeking to serve the other. It’s not all about what you get from it. Our wedding day. The day we get married, we see ourselves entering a happy marriage and living an amazing life together. Most of us don’t consider the storms that will be thrown our way and how we hope to conquer them. We view our marriage as being just the two of us. Some may include God at the wedding, but many forget about Him in the marriage. Marriage has become another thing we use to make us feel good, give us what we want and need, and dump once it no ..read more

Home decorating doesn’t need to be expensive or overwhelming. Start small and see how you can personalize your house into your home. No matter where we are in life, how many people live in our home or how old they are, we all want a home that fits what we need, want, and like! Often we don’t know where to start or what makes a room “work,” so we try to change everything, all at once—and often end up regretting it. It seems like interior decorators have some magic touch we’ll never have. But as a decorator myself, I’m here to tell you, it’s not true! Decorating is a skill you can learn, starti ..read more

Now that spring is in full swing, we’ve got spring cleaning and organization on our minds! We’ve gathered 6 books on cleaning, organizing, decluttering, and time management to get your spring off to a great start. Once we get that itch to deep clean, tidy up, and purge unnecessary items from our houses, we can’t stop until we’ve started working on at least one cleaning project or another. Sometimes the whole house ends up getting rearranged in the end, but either way, it feels so nice to have a fresh start, clear surfaces, and maybe some new tools in our cleaning repertoire. Time Organizing T ..read more

Learn more about creating a beautiful and clutter-free home on a budget, loving your home, and investing in it. What if you don’t love the home you happen to have in this season? What if it’s in the wrong neighborhood? Or it doesn’t look like the farmhouse home you’ve imagined in your head? What if it’s a rental or military housing? Well, here’s the truth. There is no perfect home. There really isn’t. The House You Have Now But there is the home that you have right now. The one that God has provided for you in this season. And you and I both can learn to truly love our homes in spite of all t ..read more

The baby years are years to cherish and be present in. Here are some practical things you can do to stay present and capture the joy. I have seven children, and during the baby years, I felt like I would be changing diapers forever. But the truth is, the baby years flew by. The days of having an infant look at me as if I was the most beautiful woman in the world are long gone. Nobody besides Jesus will adore you the same way your infants do, and this season of your life is worth savoring. It’s worth marking and remembering and taking time to smell and feel and love these years. Be all here an ..read more

Why do we feel that what’s limiting to us is a bad thing? Maybe it’s a way of remembering we don’t need to be all things all the time. We all have them: life limitations. They look different for me than they do for my best friend or for my neighbor. But all of us have this commonality: there is a life we dream of (daily) and another that we live — and we wrestle with the gap between them. We all subtly ask the question that we don’t often name out loud: where is God when what I imagined for my life right now isn’t what I’m living at two o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon? It was two o’clock on a ..read more

See what a blessing it is to gather your grandchildren together in one place for a fun time of relationship-building and great fun!! Recently I was asked,  “Susan, looking back over your whole life, what is one of the things for which you are most thankful?” Without hesitating I responded, “the Cousin and Family Camps we’ve had with our kids.” For eleven years my husband John and I hosted a “Cousin Camp” for our grandchildren. What is Cousin Camp? We began with five grands from our three oldest families and the last few years, we had all twenty-one grands from all five families. You must ..read more

Do you struggle with letting go of control and holding on to things too tightly? You may want control because you have a fear of the unknown, and thinking about the future makes you anxious. Or maybe it’s a different reason for you, but here’s the truth: God literally has the whole world in His hands. Once you rest in that fact, you can finally start loosening anxiety’s grip over you. Think about it for a moment. The control you’re clinging to, my bet is it’s making you even more anxious.  He Cares for You First Peter 5:7 is a popular verse, and I’m sure you’ve heard it recited to you by ..read more