Christian devotional

Look Up From the Sand

If you’ve been around here for a little while, you might remember when I wrote and published my first devotional book, Real Mom, Real Faith last year. Well, I’ve been working on another one!

My next devotional book is titled Real Mom, Real Grace: Everyday Encouragement for Imperfect Moms, and today I thought I’d share a little peek inside!

This devotion was inspired by something I noticed about myself during our recent beach vacation. It’s funny how God can use something as ordinary as seashells and thrift shopping to teach us something about our hearts.

Seashell (more…)

A Raccoon in Our Tree, Double Therapy, and Everything Else

Remember in my recent post where I said there wasn’t much else for us to catch in the way of sickness? I spoke too soon. I caught a head cold. I must have jinxed myself haha. I have a new best friend called Cold Calm.

Cold Calm Homeopathic medicine

Unfortunately I can’t take medications like Mucinex or DayQuil because I’m still breastfeeding Mordecai, so homeopathic medicine it is!

So, this morning started off really interesting. I was up at 5:30am and Jimmy informed me that Niva was outside freaking out and climbing our tree. He thought she chased a cat into our tree, so I went outside to inspect the situation. What I found was the video below. Niva chased a raccoon into our tree!! (more…)