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The Power of a Mother’s Touch

September 27, 2010 in Mommy Musings

I remember when Josiah was born the beauty and simple comfort of skin to skin contact. A friend shared this news story on facebook today, and I had to share it with you! What a beautiful way for God to work a miracle! I wish I could figure out how [...]

The Tip of all Tips: Get into God’s Word.

September 24, 2010 in Mom 2 Mom

My co-leader for the women’s group I lead through our church recently challenged all of us to memorize some scripture passages. I just sent out an email to all the ladies in the group with a few thoughts. After hitting send, I realized that this is something I’d love to [...]

Our Bathroom Vanity

September 20, 2010 in Making our House a Home

I figured it was finally time to make good on my promise to share my bathroom vanity makeover. You may recall from this post that one of the main things I wanted to do to this bathroom was get rid of the linen closet. There used to be a pretty [...]

Praying Today

September 13, 2010 in Mommy Musings

I think I have known that I would adopt since the time I first thought about having babies. My parents started doing foster care when I was in high school, and this cemented my calling. Making known the need for foster and adoptive families became my soap-box throughout my college [...]

A Quick Tip for Frugal Mamas

September 11, 2010 in Mom 2 Mom

I hate it when I get to the bottom of a bottle of lotion and, even though I know there is quite a bit more in there, nothing comes up through the pump.  It kind of works to unscrew the pump and shake the rest out, but usually the bottle [...]

Bucket List Update

September 4, 2010 in Mommy Musings

We had homemade ice cream yesterday. – Yum! And I realized it was high time I gave a bucket list update! (aka. Cute pictures of Josiah doing fun stuff) While we were in Nebraska visiting Grandma and Grandpa a couple of weeks ago, we did lots of fun bucket list [...]