Reading Time: 5 minutesInside: Depending on your location, it may be hard to find high quality meat that is humanly raised without hormones or antibiotics. That’s why we love ButcherBox. Read our honest review of ButcherBox in this post! Related: A Completely Honest Review of Perdue Farms’ Meat Delivery Service While we love to support local farms, sometimes […]
Clean BeautyWhy We Love Free Reign Farm (an honest review)
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen we started our journey toward more natural living, Will and I didn’t really think about toiletry products at first. Then we discovered Free Reign Farm. They offer a full line of clean, natural, quality products. We love Free Reign Farm and haven’t found a product of theirs that we don’t love. Will and I started using Free Reign […]
Motherhood & Family7 Classic Novels Every Mom Should Read
Reading Time: 6 minutesLooking for your next good fiction read? These old-fashioned, classic novels every mom should read feature strong female heroines who are an example to mothers today. Guest post by Elsie of Tea and Ink Society For many moms, reading is a pastime of a bygone era. We have such busy, full lives with running our […]
Home10 Reasons to Love Amazon Prime
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe had a former babysitter who joked that our neighbors must have thought we were drug dealers because we got so many packages in the mail! In truth, our packages mostly come from Amazon because we LOVE shopping via Amazon Prime. I’m an ALDI girl, but I like to avoid other stores at all costs. […]
Father Son Bonding: 3 Ways to Foster Friendship Between Dads and Sons
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m excited to welcome Will back to the blog today to discuss his dreams for father son bonding with our little boy! I hope these three ways to foster friendship between dads and their sons will encourage your family! ~Erin xoxo By Will Odom (aka “the hubs”) After having three daughters in four years, I never […]
HealthHow Clean Water Changes Lives
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat impact does clean water have? Can clean water change lives? By impacting health and education, clean water can change an individual life as well as an entire community. As the dawn begins to break over the mountains in rural Honduras, Maria, her siblings, and her cousins are already awake and dressed for their morning […]
How a Simple Shoebox Changes Lives
Reading Time: 8 minutes Here’s a firsthand account of how an Operation Christmas Child shoebox can change lives! He was five years old living in extreme poverty in rural Mexico. His mom struggled to take care of him and his siblings since his dad was in prison (and would be in and out of jail most […]
A Guy’s Review of Stitch Fix for Men
Reading Time: 9 minutesInside: Ready for a guy’s review of Stitch Fix for Men? There are thousands of posts on the internet about women using Stitch Fix, but what about a men’s take on Stitch Fix for Men. Read on, and discover if this might be a viable option for helping your husband build a new wardrobe–with style! By Will, […]
5 Things the Working Poor Want You to Know During the Holidays (But Will Not Tell You)
Reading Time: 8 minutesInside: The working poor want you to know some things during the holidays–but they won’t come right out and say them. Here are some ways to better understand–and help–the working poor. I’ll never forget the Christmas that Will and I discovered we were among the working poor. Frustrated by our financial situation at the time, […]
Creating Community to Connect with New Friends
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhether you’re new in town or have stayed in your same neighborhood for years, creating community is a fantastic way to connect with new friends. Guest post by Christen Price, author of Invited: Live a Life of Connection, not Perfection “Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. Into the community you were […]
3 Things to Remember If You’re an Imperfect Mom
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you’re an imperfect mom (and who isn’t!?), here are three important things to remember. by Jessica Kastner, author of Hiding From the Kids in My Prayer Closet. Ah, motherhood. The place where our girlhood dreams of baby cuddling and tutu shopping collide with the reality of public tantrums and sanity droughts. Even the most […]
Practice Reading and Math During Summer: 8 Simple, Creative Ways to Reinforce Learning at Home
Reading Time: 8 minutesSummer is here! Blink and it’s gone. Here are 8 simple, fun ways to reinforce reading and math at home so your kids aren’t behind when school starts. By Will and Erin Odom Before you know it, the summer will be over and school will be gearing up again. Sad, I know. The stores already […]
3 Things Every Woman Should Remember About Life
Reading Time: 5 minutesAre the difficulties of life getting you down? Keep your chin up and keep reading 3 things every woman should remember about life. By Hilary Bernstein, Contributing Writer It doesn’t matter what it might look like on social media – no one has a perfect life. Every woman deals with struggles. Every woman has difficult […]
3 Ways to Start the Day Off Right
Reading Time: 5 minutesStart the day off right. When you do, it will lead to a more productive day and makes the overwhelming parts of the day more manageable. Guest Post by Whitney Cornelison of Beauty in the Mess Being in the trenches of motherhood has taught me a lot about myself. I thought I was a patient person, […]
Why Your Kids Are Bored At Home (And It’s Not What You Think)
Reading Time: 5 minutesSummer is here and you might be wondering what to do when the kids are bored at home. There’s a way to tame the boredom beast…but it might not be what you think. Guest post by Jamie Jeffers of Medium Sized Family Your kids are bored at home. You can tell, because they’ve told you, oh, about […]
