Mother’s Day Gone Wrong: It’s that time of year when the world acknowledges the sacrifices and contributions of mothers everywhere, as they should. I am personally a fan of showing moms appreciation all throughout the year, but that is a topic for another day. Today I want to share a story with you about one [...]
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I am continuing today with another update from my trip to Guatemala last week. I’ll return to our regularly scheduled programming next week. _______________ As I mentioned in my previous post here, one of the places that my team visited in Guatemala was a hospital for the handicapped whose families are too impoverished to take [...]
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I visited Guatemala this past week to work with some of the poorest people in the country. I will be sharing more in the coming days, but I wrote this post this morning to summarize everything that I experienced on my journey. ______________________________________ Imagine a building, beautiful and inviting on the outside, but filled [...]
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My son was asked to write a practice cover letter for one of his classes this semester. The following is what he turned in. Should I be worried? Tweet
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I’m leaving Monday for a one week trip to work with an established non-profit feeding program in one of the poorest sections of Guatemala City. In order to raise money to give to the feeding program, through the end of the day today I am offering my Summer Sanity: A Mom’s Guide to a [...]
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I had the opportunity last week to be interviewed by Gail Vaz-Oxlgade. Gail is a radio talk show host, the author of the best-selling book Money Rules: Rule Your Money or Your Money Will Rule You and host of the Canadian television series Money Moron. We talked about my philosophy on saving money, money saving tips and [...]
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Part of living on less so you can live the life you want is keeping your living space clean and organized. Here are a couple of Spring cleaning projects I hope to tackle this week. Tweet
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I have a weakness. I sometimes compare myself to others. I find myself trying to measure up to some invisible standard that I believe those people have attained, rather than simply being content with my own life. Recently my husband and I attended an event with a lot of “beautiful” people who looked to me [...]
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10 Minutes A Day Decluttering: Kitchen Clutter Are you joining us for the 10 Minutes A Day Decluttering Challenge? We are taking just ten minutes a day to remove clutter from one area of our homes. Part of healthy living is creating comfortable and energizing spaces in our homes, rather than living with draining, overwhelming [...]
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I have some exciting news! At the end of April, I will be traveling to Guatemala to work with a non-profit group who feeds and clothes some of the poorest children in Guatemala. I will be working directly with the group to feed and play with the kids, as well as interacting with and praying for [...]
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If you’ve been following The Peaceful Mom for a while, then you know that after being a one car family for almost a year, we were finally able to purchase a new-to-us van for cash. We were pretty excited and have enjoyed the luxury of having transportation available at a moment’s notice. Unfortunately, the party [...]
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Making Our House A Home (even though it’s a rental)–Follow my journey in turning our house into a home. You can read other posts in this series here. I just found this cute night stand at a local discount store. It’s the perfect height and I love the cottage feel of it. Tweet
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Making Our House A Home (even though it’s a rental)–Follow my journey in turning our house into a home. You can read other posts in this series here. During the aforementioned survival phase when we were just trying to acquire the basic necessities for our family, we were able to get beds for everyone, but the [...]
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I am not feeling well and unfortunately, I don’t have a team to take over for me so I will be taking a little break from the blog today. In the meantime, I wanted to remind you about the Beyond $28,000 series here. I will be writing more soon about where we are on our [...]
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One thing that I have realized recently is that there are two basic realities for moms these days: photo credit: Marcus Design Blog World Blog World is where life is well-organized, color-coordinated and everything works out well. You can find Blog World on Pinterest, as well as many other websites and blogs today. Tweet
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