I shared last week about a tradition I started with my kids when my oldest was a baby. I dressed him in an adorable Christmas outfit, put him on Santa’s lap and had a photo taken. I repeated that through all their teenage years. As my children grew, the...
Recently we posted a great article on family holiday traditions. Well, how about those of us who haven’t really established what those traditions look like? For my husband and I, we’ve been married nearly 8 years but only had a child in the house for almost 2 years....
Wouldn’t it be nice if holidays with families were like TV commercials 📺 with everyone happy to just be together and getting along? There are so many ways we imagine our holiday celebrations, from romanticizing everything is just like a Christmas movie to dreading...
Advent is a season of preparing our hearts and homes to welcome the baby who changed everything. Now I don’t know about you, but often December 4th rolls around and I realize I’ve missed the first whole week of Advent! So this year, I’m trying to...
Chloe Elizabeth KrosschellJune 5, 1993 ✟ I don’t know what caused me to go to my hutch and take out the little mahogany box. Maybe it’s the fact that today was her due date (October 16, 1993). I was so excited to be having a little girl, and what better month for a...
In Part 1 I talked about setting boundaries for yourself in order to be kind to yourself and live a life that is meaningful to you. Today we’re looking at how to set boundaries with other people. If we could live our lives without people crossing our boundaries,...