by Marissa | Dec 27, 2013 | 2013, GrowingFamily, Home, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, MakingHome, PursuingBeauty, Uncategorised
It’s been a beautiful, crazy, unusual, and perfect-for-us Christmas. Full of fun, quiet, noise, food, friends, just us, and family via facetime. The girls have been soaking up every minute of it, especially the fact that their beloved daddy is taking the week of...
by Marissa | Dec 21, 2013 | 2013, Advent, DiscoveringSpirit, Faith, Image-Update, Uncategorised
This morning, I walked through snow up to my knees to gather the greens for Christmas decorating. I could hear the laughs and calls of my three precious girls playing in the snow with their daddy before he left for work. I found a perfect little tree for the girls to...
by Marissa | Dec 19, 2013 | 2013, Advent, Guest Post, Image-Update, JoiningCommunity, Uncategorised
As we give our girls love filled gifts that encourage them in learning the gratitude and delight of being generous gift receivers, we also want to help them in the practice of being generous, thoughtful gift givers. One of the ways that we are doing that is by...
by Marissa | Dec 18, 2013 | 2013, GrowingFamily, Health, Homeschool, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, Play, Uncategorised
We’ve officially gotten our big snowfall…in fact it’s still coming down. The girls are of course thrilled and have taken up sledding in the front yard. Dan made them some starting ramps to add a little more pizzazz to their sledding experience. They...
by Marissa | Dec 16, 2013 | 2013, Image-Update, Uncategorised
Today I’m thirty years old. I feel that I should have some deep meaningful reflection of my life over the past 30 years but alas I don’t really. If I find some deep reflections, I’ll be sure to share them with you. For now though, I’d like to...
by Marissa | Dec 16, 2013 | 2013, GrowingFamily, Image-Update, Kathleen, Uncategorised
Our little Claire-y bear turned two yesterday much to her two sisters’ great delight. Her response was a little “Meh” and a little annoyed at waking up to an empty room because they didn’t wait for her. This sunshiny girl is rarely without a...
