Family

If and when you have free time, do you try to work on your to-do list? Or do you tend to choose people over things?

People in this world are so focused on staying polarized by differences. Seek to find common ground as a way to unite.

It’s tempting to decide to go your own way, but what if you never were meant for a truly independent, lone ranger kind of life?

If an anchor provides a source of security or stability, what could family anchors do for your loved ones?

Need to relieve stress? Wish you could relax? Here’s a brilliant solution that’s both simple but difficult to do. Have you noticed that simple, no-brainer solutions can often be extremely difficult? For example, I know that healthy eating and daily exercise would help me look…

Want to bless the sick? You can become a haven by helping those who need it most. Over the past three weeks, my family’s been quarantined at home with an awful virus. Somehow, in all of our hustle and bustle, the contagious sickness worthy of…

Feeling discouraged about quarantines? You might be surprised, but there are quite a few benefits found in social distancing. Before March 2020, not many people heard of social distancing before. And for good reason, too – most people never contemplated what a quarantine really meant,…

Not every mom spends all day, every day with her children. If you ever need to do it, how can you manage? And what can moms do if they’re home all day with children? As a mom of two pre-teens, I’ve spent my entire motherhood…

Who might need your haven? You’ll never know … until you invite others to your home. I needed a haven. I knew it. After writing about haven creation for years, I forgot that settling into a new house could be a long process. And as…

Do you know who lives near you? Get to know your neighbors with these fun get-together ideas. Do you know your neighbors? If you do, how well do you know them? Do you find yourself surrounded by strangers … or by people you know in…

If you want to make your motherhood count – and if you know you need to transform your outlook and approach to mothering – here are 3 steps to take today. Before I became a mom, I never lacked a shortage of parenting ideas. Someday…

Believe it or not, if you’re a wife you are a good thing. (Or at least you should be a good thing!) As wives, isn’t it so difficult to remember that we’re special? After the excitement of dating, engagement, and a wedding settles down, life…

When your husband is a jerk, marriage can feel like an awful punishment. Here’s how to cope. We’ve all met him. A man who is a complete and total jerk. He’s rude and insulting. He’s self-centered and self-absorbed. He’s unfriendly and unkind. When you meet…

Kindness in your marriage is a huge game-changer. Without it, you and your husband are miserable. With it, your marriage becomes a beautiful thing. People perform random acts of kindness every day. The kindness might be something like paying for coffee for the next person…

Sometimes, your marriage can be helped a lot by good examples of healthy marriages. Growing up, I saw marriages that were unhappy – and filled with arguments simply because spouses chose to disagree with each other about everything. I knew if I ever got married…

If you think you’re always right in your marriage, you’ll need to question this at some point. And if you’re married, you need to regularly think about who is right in your marriage. Does it ever seem like you’re always right? No matter what the situation,…

Getting tired out from striving on your own as a wife? Sounds like it’s time to stop. Have you ever wondered what you could do to be a better wife? Do you feel tired out from striving on your own as a wife? Have you…