Motherhood is impossibly difficult, everyday challenging, and tragically humbling—it can leave us drowning. Need a dose of hope? We Can Say Goodbye To Survival Mode.

In order to live an abundant life, you have to plan for an abundant life.

I don’t make resolutions. Instead, my husband and I make a habit of setting aside time each December to bid farewell to the current year, and prepare to usher in the new year.

Here are 3 essential steps you can take to create your best year yet in 2015!

I’ve struggled this year with feeling like the snobby organic mom who won’t let her kids eat what the other kids are eating. We had to bring our own ice cream and toppings to the homeschool ice cream party. Through that I had to remember to focus on the question, what are we gaining here?

A New Family Tradition   My family has decided to begin a new tradition of wearing our walking shoes to church. This tradition stemmed out of the realization that there are some very nice hiking trails and paths close to our church. And so this morning as we rushed through our Sunday morning rituals of […]

That Looming Hour at the End of a Day Looming at the end of our day’s to-do list, dinner often evokes a slight sense of both panic and dread as the hour grows nearer and prep time grows shorter. Time originally planned for dinner’s creation is increasingly swallowed up by the tasks preceding it. Hours […]

Into The Whole Food Kitchen Of The Gruetzmacher Family This is the final part of a 3-part story of the Gruetzmacher family. Eric, Amy, and their three young boys have recently revolutionized their diet and health by bidding farewell to processed foods, and embracing a diet of all whole, fresh foods. Be sure to read […]