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I Need Your Suggestions for Keeping Warm!

Today’s post is going to be (relatively) short because I’m hoping you will do most of the work for me.

My number one problem with winter is being cold. After I read How to Winter…

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  • Random, Personality Insights
  • Sep, 29, 2026
  • 90 Comments

Things I Know by Heart, Things I Don’t (And Things I Really Should) + Guest Post!!

A quick note: You can also find me over at The Frugal Girl today, where I’m talking about how intentional spending habits allowed our family to spend extended time (110 days, to be exact)…

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  • Random, Personality Insights
  • Sep, 23, 2026
  • 57 Comments

How Our Family Mealtime Habits Have Changed

Growing up, my family had very structured eating habits.

Breakfast was eaten together. After we finished, we’d read the Bible and a little devotional, pray together (we had a list of different people and situations…

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  • Food, Parenting, Personality Insights
  • Aug, 26, 2026
  • 37 Comments

More Things I’ve Done

I find it much easier to think of things I haven’t done, but here are a few more things I have done that might fall outside the typical realm:

Taken a CPR/First Aid course. (Though…

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  • Personality Insights, Never Have I Ever, Random
  • Apr, 28, 2026
  • 33 Comments

A Special Guest Post by Belle: Top Five/Bottom Five About My Mother

For the first time ever while travelling as a family, we ended up with two separate hotel rooms last night. We split things up by gender, so Belle and I got the chance to…

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  • Personality Insights, Guest Post, Random, Top Five/Bottom Five
  • Apr, 19, 2026
  • 48 Comments

Random Little Updates (AKA: Potpourri)

I rarely start a post, write conversationally, and immediately post it. I tend to draft, step away, come back to edit, and then schedule it for some specific future time. (That probably tells you…

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  • Travel, Euro Adventure, Personality Insights, Random
  • Mar, 29, 2026
  • 51 Comments

My Hack for Picking Outfits for a Carry-On Only Trip

This is my process for choosing clothes to take for a carry-on-only trip. (We’ll be in Europe for 3.5 months—March through June—which means preparing for a pretty wide range of weather.)

Now, when I say…

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  • Organization, Personality Insights, Planning, Travel
  • Feb, 26, 2026
  • 38 Comments
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