Being Active, With Your Spouse

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Not only is it important to be active with your family, but it is also important to be active with your spouse. Working together and going on dates together will strengthen your relationship. Research suggests that couples should go on a date every other week. Gasp, I know. With 4 kids, this seems impossible to [...]

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Homemade Conversation Hearts

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Are you looking for the perfect last minute addition to your Valentine’s Celebration? Look no further. This is a really fun way to show someone you care. Can’t you just see a special little bag filled with personalized conversation hearts? Or, take a box of store bought conversation hearts, pour them out and fill the [...]

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Love in Marriage

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Marriage is the ultimate commitment, yet one of the hardest endeavors that many of us encounter in our lives. I have been married, divorced and remarried.  I have had my share of pain and tears, but ultimately through it all, God has seeded himself deeper into every aspect of my heart. In Genesis, God created [...]

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Tips on Providing a Healthy Marriage for Children

Tips on Providing a Healthy Marriage for Children

You try to make your children’s lives happy and fulfilled. You want them to have the best education, the best doctors, and the safest environment. What you might not realize is how important your marriage is to shape your child’s life and how the healthy your marriage is the healthy your child can be overall. [...]

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Oncologist’s Office-Perspective on Motherhood

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Our family had an experience a few months ago that changed us. Enough time has passed that I can share. In November, at a doctor’s appointment I had my blood taken. The quick results came back with a problem. Anemia. Anemia is a lack of iron. Iron helps your body take in oxygen. You need [...]

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Dating Your Spouse? Something to Talk About.

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Remember when you were dating your husband, before you got married, and you promised each other that kids, and life, and work, and being tired would NEVER get in the way of the two of you dating? Remember those conversations? I do. And although we try really hard to hold true to those early promises, [...]

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50 Ways to Romance Your Sweetheart

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Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to break the bank.  And showing your love to your spouse doesn’t necessarily have to be limited to a certain day or holiday.  Here are 50 free or fairly inexpensive options to add a little love and romance on Valentine’s Day or any day of the year.   Go ahead, woo [...]

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Valentine’s Day is coming!

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Need an inexpensive, unique and/or thoughtful Valentine’s Day gift for your child or your spouse?  What about your best friend or sister?  Here is an idea that will cost you nothing but time and brain power.  And, in the process, you might shed a tear, smile mischievously or laugh until your sides hurt. Make a [...]

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The Roller Coaster of Marriage

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Elizabeth writes for us again… I hesitate sometimes in becoming too personal on my blog. But today while contemplating whether I should delve into my personal life I realized that if I don’t then I am always giving the illusion that my life is all peaches and cream. No one has a perfect life, and it’s [...]

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