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Simplified Hosting Ideas

The Holidays are a time meant for relaxing and spending time with family, although relaxing isn’t something that often gets associated with the holidays. You more commonly hear words like stressful and overwhelmed especially around hosting parties or the holiday dinner. This holiday season you can rest in peace and enjoy your hosting experience with these simplified hosting ideas.

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Family, Food, Guest BlogsGuest User
Intentional Advent

With the holidays approaching, it’s easy to get caught up hurriedly rushing from one activity or event to the next, only to realize at the end of the year that time has passed so quickly that you didn’t get a chance to slow down long enough to really enjoy it. Our time is one of our greatest resources and one of the greatest gifts we can give to those we love, which is why it’s so important that we are intentional with how we’re spending it.

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Let's Talk About Parenting

Let’s talk about parenting for a minute. I believe there is something deep inside every mom that doesn’t want to mess this parenting thing up. I mean, the one thing I want to get right in life is all figured out mainly through just doing it!

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Faith, Familyjoie miller
Grace for Three

In 1 Peter 5:12, Peter says, “My purpose in writing is to encourage you and assure you that what you are experiencing is truly part of God’s grace for you. Stand firm in that grace.” On hard days or in those moments of “I don’t know if I can do this,” I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and whisper to myself “grace.”

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Train Them Up

A mother's role is to watch over the affairs of her house. What does this mean? Being a parent is like having a garden. You are the garden keeper and the gatekeeper of your home.

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Family, Faithjoie miller
Avoiding the Mom Comparison Trap

Did you know that your mind naturally wants to categorize and rank things so that you can understand them better? So when we look around, our minds try to determine where we rank compared to other moms when it comes to feeding, playing, and disciplining our children. We even compare which mom is celebrated the best on Mother's Day!

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Do Not Enter

The night before Moses led them out of slavery, God instructed the Children of Israel to paint their doorposts with the blood of a lamb and the death angel would pass over them. The plague that was about to hit Egypt would pass them by. It is as if there was a huge Do Not Enter sign over their homes.

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Faith, Familyjoie miller
What is a Good Mom?

I want to encourage you that God did not intend for the process of becoming a mother to be one that would cause you to miss out on anything that He plans for you. He gave us the gift of being mothers and birthing children long before the curse.

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