COZY WINTER FAVORITES – things I’m enjoying and are making this winter a cozy one

I’ve been hosting a Wednesday evening homeschool chat over on Instagram since the beginning of June and this month we are chatting all things books! (One of my absolutely favorite topics ever.) We started this month by chatting about picture books. I asked people to share their three favorites. How many people do you think…

Living with less has been an overall theme in my year so far. It started with me simplifying at the beginning of the year and has just snowballed since. Last week I finished re-reading Jen Hatmaker’s book Seven, if you you haven’t read this book yet, you absolutely need to. I first read it two years…

This week we hosted our second Sole Hope shoe cutting party at my church. In a nutshell here is how it works: you get a bunch of people together to trace and cut out fabric for shoes, you ship it to Sole Hope and from there they get it to Uganda where they employ locals to…

I submitted this article as a guest post submission to a blog awhile ago and it didn’t get chosen so I thought instead of just tossing it I would share it here. We just got off the phone from a call we had been dreading might come, our adoption agency told us they would no…