Activities, Lifestyle

Twelve Beautiful Family Christmas Traditions to Make Your Holiday Magical

Christmas has a way of bringing people together. It is a time when homes are filled with warmth, joy, and cherished memories. It is a time when families can gather to create new memories and hold fast to beloved traditions. Some family Christmas traditions become more than just holiday activities. They are the threads that weave together the fabric of family life, celebrated year after year with love and excitement.

If you’re looking to add to your holiday traditions. Or if you want to celebrate the beauty of togetherness. Either way, here are some of the most beloved family Christmas traditions shared by…

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Two young girls washing dishesHabits, Lifestyle, Parenting

Good & Simple Strategies to Empower Your Kids for Household Chores

As parents, we often juggle countless responsibilities—work, errands, and keeping the home running smoothly. Let’s be honest here and say it plainly – we are busy, and often too busy. That is why once the kids are old enough, including them in household chores can be a game changer. After all, having them clean up after themselves can lighten the burden for us parents in a big way.

The big problem these days…

Getting kids to do chores around the house can feel like an uphill battle. This challenge can make it more burdensome than it’s worth.

However, it doesn’t have…

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Lifestyle, Motherhood, Parenting

Are your children bored? The hidden truth about Boredom and how to manage it.

Summer was winding down a couple of years back. I was in a conversation with another mother when I asked how their summer was. She told me that it was busy and went by really fast. That summer, she enrolled her two kids in a lot of day camps, which kept them busy. She excitedly shared with me the details of their many summer activities. Afterward, she proudly said, “They didn’t even have time to be bored at all”…boredom is actually a very normal part of the human experience.

Parents tend to be very aware of this. It is especially true during seasons when kids have a lot more free time at their disposal.

It’s not uncommon for parents to become easily frustrated with…

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Discover Lifelong Marriage SuccessHabits, Lifestyle, Love & Marriage

You Need These Powerful Essentials For Proven Marriage Success

…the second installment of our evaluation of the essential ingredients for a fulfilling and enduring marriage. If you’ve already glimpsed the transformative power of giving your all, embracing change together, learning to fight well, and being respectful of your partner in nurturing the bonds of matrimony, now, we will delve deeper into the heart of what sustains a thriving partnership. Let’s uncover the significance of the top three crucial…

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How to Stay MarriedHabits, Lifestyle, Love & Marriage

Check out These Powerful Ingredients for How to Stay Married

Ten years is a big deal these days. While it is a big deal to hit the ten-year milestone in marriage, it still feels like we have so much more life to live together….

Now, with Valentine’s Day just past us, and the start of wedding season coming up soon after that, it is appropriate to open a discussion about marital success. To do this, I collected the thoughts and stories of several women who have been married for a minimum of seven years. I asked them specifically to respond to the following question:

“What makes marriage work? Please take a moment to share your 1-3 ideas about what you believe makes for a successful, lifelong, generally joyful, and fulfilled marriage.”

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Activities, Lifestyle

Cherish Memories with Keepsake Wooden Christmas Ornaments

Wooden Photo Ornament Idea for you and your extended family Want to make these perfect, sentimental, memory-filled wooden Christmas ornaments? These block ornaments are a beautiful way to share your children’s photos and family memories from the last year. They make great gifts for grandparents, aunts, uncles, and godparents. They always turn out gorgeous, and every year you get a …

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featured, Habits, Lifestyle

Take Time For You! 5-Days of Personal Growth

Five Days of Growth is a week set aside and dedicated to your personal growth and development. Think of it as a personal challenge to yourself, and a promise to your family and friends that you are doing everything you can for yourself. The end result is that you will be better equipped to show up and love others…Five Days of Growth is a compilation of five sets of…

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Birthday Celebration IdeasLifestyle, Motherhood

Make Your Birthday Amazing with 25 Birthday Celebration Ideas

…I know everyone celebrates differently, with different activities, different food, different meeting places, etc. Not only that, but things change once we become parents. Our priorities shift a bit. The way we celebrate through those child-rearing years looks a lot different from the way we celebrated in our child-free years.

…this year I decided to put together a blog roundup to birthday celebration ideas about how mothers typically enjoy spending their birthdays, and with whom. I gathered some mothers and asked them the question…

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Habits, Lifestyle

Personal Growth: The Hard, but Good Truth About Embracing It

We’ve talked about a lot of things, and hopefully, we have been challenged and have made some lifestyle habits through all of the conversations we have had. That is why for this last conversation, I want to talk about personal growth. My goal is that you will take this Live Heart-Fully Conversation and continue on your own personal growth journey to deepen your relationships and also better care for your own mental, emotional, spiritual health…We are all always in a state of growth. For some, it may look like learning to practice kindness toward others or extending a favor or a helping hand to someone in need. Others may need to overcome an intense fear or courageously speak out in loving truth to a family member who needs to be held accountable. For all of us, our personal growth is a constant, ever-changing plane that we are learning to navigate as we head towards a particular destination.

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Habits, Lifestyle

Five Good and Proven Strategies for Chasing Your Dreams

There are those hopes and desires that happen quickly, perhaps even right away. In other cases, there are those that take years, decades even before the slightest movement forward is seen. Chasing dreams is hard. The waiting is also hard. But there are times when both are necessary in order hope to grow and inspiration to increase.

Sometimes, the fulfillment of a dream is in the timing. Other times, it is in our own maturity. There are also times when the people in our lives are not the right ones to support us while we are chasing our dreams.

For this Live Heart-Fully Conversation, I have invited Rebecca Woolf-Ratzon to share some words that I hope will inspire…

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