Get 2024 ready with the updated Design Your Year planner! Organize your day, week, months, and year with these ultimate planner printables. Designed to fit all of your important dates and tasks, these pages are ready to help you design your year to help meet all of your new year goals. Choose your layouts and print at…

Today I'm looking back on the highlights of 2023. Although plenty didn't go as planned, like the three visits we had to have a repairman fix our washer, dishwasher, and then our dryer during three different months. We still enjoyed a heap of blessings, and as long as we're together, Team Wesley can take on…

Another Christmas has come and gone. I have enjoyed sharing our family traditions with you, and sharing Advent devotionals each week. Although the Christmas decorations are being boxed up today, I’m going to continue living like everyday is Christmas; a gift to be cherished! God has blessed us abundantly this year and…

Today I'm sharing my Countdown to Christmas challenge scrapbook! While a few days got away from me due to illness or otherwise, I tried to make up as many as I could and compiled them here to share with you today! If you want to refresh your memory on the challenge prompts, you can read all about it HERE . I hope …

Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light. From now on our troubles will be out of sight.  Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Make the Yuletide gay. From now on our troubles will be miles away.  Here we are as in olden days, happy golden days of yore. Faithful friends who are dear to us, gat…

Love is tough. It can fill you with butterflies and excitement or leave you anxious and worried. I have learned so much more about love since my first child was born. Sometimes love is doing hard things, things that hurt momentarily, but eventually teach a valuable lesson in the end. Parenting is one of those tough ki…

Last year, I interviewed my kiddos about their year, their favorites, and played a fun Christmas-themed round of “would you rather?” that I hope you will enjoy in the video below!  p.s. I tried my best to provide subtitles/translations for Elora as much as possible! :)

The week before Christmas always throws our routine for a loop. I joked that in order to do the fun, memory making things that I’d have to give up having a clean house at the same time. It’s been difficult to let things slide that I would normally be prompt about, but these last several days have been more fun than I …

Three years ago I spent a Saturday afternoon with my Momma making Christmas keepsake ornaments that are being proudly displayed still today. A few Christmases ago my husband and I decided that we only wanted to display ornaments that had a significant meaning to us on our tree. That way, when we’re admiring the beauti…

This year we started our newest family tradition! The kids worked so hard this semester at school and did amazing on their exams, so we wanted to kickstart Christmas break with a little hot chocolate party to celebrate! I posted about our Christmas break bucket list in yesterday's post; I combined a few of our ac…

The counters are cluttered with cards and goodies galore. The kids are playing from sun up until well past sun down. Although part of taking a break means to take a pause from the daily routine, I wanted to make a point to maximize our time together this season with a few fun family activities. Trust me, our family is…

A cold got the best of me halfway through last week. Some of my posts had to be postponed, but I’m feeling much better now and am ready to play catch-up! The kids are on Christmas break and that means it’s memory making time! This week is dedicated to Team Wesley! All 3 of the EPW’s have agreed to share the spotlight …

Peace is defined as freedom from disturbance, tranquility, a state or period in which there is no war or a war has ended, and a symbol of Christian love and unity. While the latter isn't synonymous with the word today, true peace is God-given. When thinking of peace it's easier to associate it with the absence…

I've been busy going through all of my family photo albums and discs gathering up all of the sweetest memories of Christmas I could find. It took quite some time since I had nearly 30-some years to sift through. I still remember my favorite Christmas traditions growing up: sending letters to the North Pole, leavin…

How is December flying by so fast this year? Christmas is seriously creeping up on me this year and there are *so* many things I want to do, crafts I want to create, and memories I want to make before 2024 arrives! Here’s what has been going on currently for me… but there’s still so much more Blogmas to come! Happy Bl…

It was raining that evening at the marching band competition. As Color Guard captain, I was walking out on the field for the award ceremony. The drum major had an umbrella in one hand and grabbed my hand with his other as we ran to our spot on the field. I didn’t let go until he looked down at me and said, “you can st…

Your second weekly newsletter is hot off the press! This week is one of my favorite weeks of December, but if you want to know what you’ll have to read the newsletter to find out! Happy Blogmas & Merry Christmas!

Joy is so much more than a noun. Happiness, (an adjective by the way) is contingent on our circumstances or lack of sorrows. When we're happy we are showing it through our contentment. It can be hard to achieve at times and is definitely not for keeps. Joy is always available to us through Jesus. Although defined …

To celebrate this weekend kicking off our family festivities, I'm sharing my 3 favorite cookie recipes that have become a staple for our household this time of year. Each year we love to give a tin of goodies to loved ones. While we like to try to switch up what we bake, it wouldn't be Christmas without our Me…