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The Best Travel Gear for Young Families: Babies and Upward
Want to know what the best travel gear is when you’ve got a young family? Thinks babies, toddlers, and elementary-aged kiddos. We’ve done our fair share of traveling with babies, toddlers, and preschoolers over the last five years. From 2-hour to 10-hour trips, we’ve learned which gear is necessary and what we could do without. In the car, meals, sleep, and non-screen fun. We’ve got you covered! Traveling with little ones can be intimidating, so I’ve put together all of my favorite things to help…
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4 Helpful Ways to Teach Toddlers and Preschoolers Scripture
Is it worth it to try to teach your toddlers and preschoolers scripture? After practicing daily family worship time for several years with my young kiddos and serving on the preschool team in our church, I’ve got some tips and tricks to share for how to have a productive family worship time with little ones. I even made a free printable for you with 3 verses you can memorize with your kiddos and discussion questions to go with them. We just went through these…
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Easy Ways to Start a Weekly Sabbath
Our family started implementing a weekly Sabbath each week years ago and it has been life-changing for us. Especially me, an Enneagram 3, overachiever, Type A personality who thinks resting is a waste of time. Hopefully, I’m not the only productivity addict out there! Oh, how the Lord has humbled me through this discipline of Sabbath! Who knew that for some of us, resting requires more discipline and self-control than putting in some hard work. Sabbath is a gift designed to reorient our hearts to…
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A Post-Easter Reflection for the Disappointed, Lonely, and Betrayed
Have you been disappointed or betrayed by someone you love? Have you been lonely in the midst of suffering? This blog post is for you. Lately, I’ve had more conversations than ever with people who have experienced relational pain, loss, and tension. We just wrapped up an Easter season that seemed to fly by in the midst of illness, injury, and more for my family. I want to let you in on some beautiful insights the Lord gave me this year as I read through…
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Death and Suffering in the World: 4 Truths to Share
Knowing how to talk to your kids about death and suffering can be intimidating. I remember the first time I talked about death with my oldest son. He was 4 years old and very concerned about his flowers wilting. A slew of questions ensued: “Why do they look different?” “What does wilting mean?” “But, I don’t want them to die!” “Do flowers go to heaven?” This lead to a conversation about how one day we will all die, but that for followers of Jesus, death…
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Let’s Be More Than Brunch Friends: Practical Advice from Proverbs
Experts have said there’s a global epidemic of loneliness. Between a pandemic and social media over the last two years, people are more lonely and anxious than ever. Deep and meaningful friendship seems to be a lost art. The Book of Proverbs gives so much practical knowledge and has a lot to say about how to do friendship. Most of which will push up against the cultural norms and patterns of friendship today. I’m going to go into detail on a few that I think…
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Sexuality, Intimacy, and Gender: 4 Resources You Need To Know About
Here we go, ya’ll. Only our fourth blog post and we’re already diving into tricky topics like sexuality. I want SIE to be a place where we can wrestle with the tough stuff. That’s why we’re diving into my top sexuality resources. I’m not very good at staying in the realm of light and fluffy conversation for too long! If you’ve heard increasingly more about things like sexuality and gender theory, but feel intimidated by these conversations, this blog post is for you. Why Are…
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How My Faith Made Me A Better Physical Therapist
When you think of the Christians that you work with, do they look any different than your co-workers who don’t follow Jesus? I hope so. Our faith isn’t meant to be something we do in our spare time, it’s something that should be fully integrated into every aspect of our lives. Whether it’s our jobs, relationships, finances, or how we spend our free time. Faith in Jesus should make a difference. It’s been interesting to see how as my relationship with Jesus has deepened, my…
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How To Be Exceptional Friends and Build Meaningful Relationships
I’ve had countless conversations the last few years about how complex finding good and reliable friends can be. There’s often unmet expectations and confusion involved. With how much pressure we are feeling from the world to “build your tribe” and have best friends, you may feel a little discouraged if you struggle to build friendships. I’m a Christian, so one of my main resources for practical wisdom is found in the Bible. I love reading through books of the Bible, but every once in awhile…
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Ditch New Year’s Resolutions: Create A Vision For 2022
Make Time to Dream Ready to ditch stereotypical New Year’s Resolutions? Create a Vision for your year instead. Holding a vision meeting quarterly has been crucial for our family. I had a few people that inspired me to start this rhythm, so I want to show you how we approach it and give you some resources for making it your own. Whether it’s for your career, friendships, marriage, health, or otherwise, we all need a vision that we can chase after. My single friends can…
