Dan and I decided we could be professional vacationers. Wouldn’t that be the life? We have always enjoyed exploring and seeing the beauty of God’s creation, so any opportunity we get, we try and jump on it. In fact, when we first moved to Minnesota, we found a little magazine that listed some fun places…
Creating a place of rest. Dan was gone for a week on a mission trip, so it was just me and the Mazers. Dan reminded me that a week is really nothing compared to some families, but nevertheless, it was a change of pace. Of course when Dan is gone, I always have a laundry…
Over a month ago I did a post about living excess. I had read a book “More or Less” by Jeff Shinabarger that really challenged me to think about how much excess I live with. I want to share the quote that made all the difference: “Excess is that thing that we could give away today, and…
Comparing. Oh how dangerous it is! Think of one thing that you do just because you are trying to keep up with someone else, keep up with what Pinterest is telling you to do, keep up with what your friend on facebook is doing, or keep up just because you think in the end, you…
I had all these grand ideas of how I was going to be the perfect stay-at-home-mom. As much as didn’t/don’t want to admit it, we go into parenthood with expectations. I made the mistake of telling Dan that I didn’t really have any expectations, but the more I thought about it, I so did! I…
This may come as a shock to you, coming from someone who loves to organize and even more so, save some moolah. You see, I used to spend the time clipping and printing coupons. I was so proud of myself. I would take my little coupon organizer to the store with me (just in case…
