Right now my family should be on a road trip to Florida to enjoy a much-anticipated, long-time-in-coming Spring Break vacation. Instead, we’re at home, putting away all our vacation clothes and supplies and making plans to hang out around the...
Welcome to Life in Lape Haven!
Welcome to my adventures, and the lessons learned, as I pour my heart into creating a Christ-centered home and haven for my sweet and nerdy husband and our three little ninjas. In our haven, my “Mommy Motto” is found in Romans 12:12, “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction; faithful in prayer.”
Our Simple Approach to Family Devotions
& Tips for Your Family Bible Time Recently my boys had nearly a week off school, and they surprised me a bit by...
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5 Tips & Tricks I’ve Learned with My 3rd Baby that I Wish...
When Elijah was born nearly 7 years ago, Brad and I were the newbie parents, reading books and learning everything we could to...
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How We Made Our Family Vacation About A Little More
Last week our family went on a little getaway, the first with all three of our boys. Since we weren’t sure how well 6-month-old...
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Chocolate Cake with Simple “Bavarian” Cream Filling...
In my family, there are three of us with birthdays in September. Not only do my dad, my younger brother, and I share a birthday...
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A few years ago, I saw a mom’s post on Facebook about the special way she’d presented her children’s Easter baskets that year, and I knew I was going to steal her idea for every Easter to come. (This post contains affiliate links, which means...
While we had a fairly mild December, winter hit hard in January. Any sense of routine we’d manage to get back to after the holidays was extremely difficult to hold onto, thanks to two-hour delays, no-school-at-all-days (including 3 in one...
In the middle of October I was driving our two older boys to the first practice for our church’s children’s Christmas program. Elijah had auditioned a week or so earlier, and having earned a part in the cast, he was especially excited. Josiah...
Growing up with a brother whose birthday is 2 days before Christmas, I learned something: You always keep the birthday and Christmas separate. Then I married a man who shares his 5-days-before-Christmas birthday with his father, and the...
While it seems like only yesterday that we saw Elijah off on his first day of kindergarten, unbelievably he’s heading into 3rd grade in a few weeks, and it’s our sweet Josiah who’s getting excited about starting school this...