• motherhood,  Parenting

    Kitchen Hacks I Promise Will Save your Sanity

    My kitchen is the hub of our house. We do much more than eat in the kitchen. Homework takes place in the kitchen, the laptop has a permanent spot at the end of the table, papers get piled on the bar. I’m going to guess that somewhere >80% of all conversations in our house take place in the kitchen. But it’s also the hardest to keep tidy. Stuff gets dumped on empty counters like they have a magnetic pull. Empty counters are empty no more. I find rubber bands from braces, dirty socks pulled off feet, scissors and tape extracted from the junk drawer, and a stack of coupons waiting…

  • Christian life,  encouragement

    Look Up!

    Have you ever taken a walk, and realized that you never even saw the scenery? You went out to take in the outdoors, and all you saw was….your feet? I’ve done that more times than I can remember. You could have walked past me and I wouldn’t have even realized it.   Why do we get like that? For me, it’s when I’m too wrapped up inside my own head. Maybe it’s a concern I have that I’m wrestling; I’m turning it every which way to come up with a ‘fix.’ Sometimes I’m in my own head because I’m experiencing guilt over something I did; I tend to want to…