Last weekend my husband and I celebrated 12 years of marriage! Here are 12 lessons we’ve learned in the last 12 years…..

Having an Intentional Marriage

Intentional living is great, and a fairly popular topic lately but, let’s talk about something that often gets overlooked… having an intentional marriage!

Making time for your marriage

With busy schedules, kids, work and just life in general sometimes it can be hard to make time to grow your marriage, but it’s so important to make it a priority. Here are a few simple ways my husband and I make time for our marriage.

3 tips to avoid the marriage rut

Ruts stink! Going through a personal rut can be bad enough…but hitting a rut in your marriage can feel like your trying to run a 5k in quicksand. Here are 3 tips to avoid the marriage rut….

Keeping my tribe small // Friendship

In a world where people are obsessed with having a lot of friends, I choose to keep my tribe small.

Here's why.........

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How to strengthen your marriage // Marriage

Marriage is a beautiful, wonderful, lovely and quite honestly.... a hard thing.

Just because you marry your best friend, doesn't automatically make you have a stronger relationship. Heck, being married for years doesn't make you have a strong marriage.

The truth is that marriage is hard but it's oh so worth it! IT'S WORTH THE WORK!

I am all for building and strengthening marriages, I think it's so very important to constantly put in the work to help make your marriage as strong as possible.

Here's a great way to strengthen your marriage now!......

The choice you must make everyday // Marriage

We've all seen it in movies and shows, or read about it in books... the classic fairytale love story. Two people that were made for each other. They would do anything for each other and no matter what life throws at them, they seem to handle everything together with grace.

If only it were that simple........

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Am I doing enough? // Parenting

I feel like as parents we are always second guessing ourselves.

"I'm I doing enough?"

"I'm I teaching them well?"

"I'm I going to raise them to be good people."

There are normally constant questions on what and how we are doing as parents.

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Moms, You're doing better than you think // Encouragement

Alright, fellow mama bear…. I see you and I want you to know that you are doing a great job!

I know that you are so very thankful for the little blessings in your life, but I can also see how much pressure you are putting on yourself. But, I’m here to tell you that you are doing a great job!.....