The Peaceful Mom

Our New Adventure

Maintaining Sanity In The Midst of Stress

Only eight days until we leave for missions training and things are getting stressful. Here are my top strategies for maintaining my sanity in the midst of the pressure.

Time to Clean the Garage

Just three days until Christmas and we’re cleaning the garage rather than going Christmas shopping. (not an actual representation of our garage-ours isn’t that organized!)

One Room Down, Many More To Go!

Thanks to my wonderful friend Kim I now have an empty room in my house. My organizational skills have definitely needed a boost lately and she provided just what I needed: focus, motivation and hard work. Now if I can just get all those other rooms looking like this!

Reality Check: Last Day at Work

Today is the last day my husband will work at a job that he has held for five years.  Just for a minute I started to feel like we are crazy. Okay, we probably are crazy, but we know that we need to attend this training school. It also makes me happy to know that […]

15 Days-Time to Clean the Pantry!

We have 15 days until we leave and this is what my pantry looks like.  I think I have a problem! You May Also Like: 54 Days Letting Go Trusting

Trusting

Today is a trusting day. I need to trust God every day, but there are times when it’s more obvious.

Remember Photo Boxes?

I do because I’m looking at nine of them.  Yes, I said nine! It’s not enough stress that we have to either get rid of or store everything we own-I have to figure out what to do with mountains of  photos! It’s interesting to me that in a normally semi-ordered life I cannot get my […]

Letting Go

Isn’t it interesting how life unfolds? A few years ago my husband and I took a rare weekend trip to the beach. I love watching the sunrise on the beach so I got up early the first morning to walk on the shore and enjoy the quiet beauty.     As I walked along, I […]