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by Melissa Cheatham | Mar 5, 2019 | All The Things, Faith Matters, Featured, The Blog

Last fall I went “canyoning” in France. I literally had never heard of it, so I had to “YouTube” a video of it. They described canyoning as white water rafting without a raft. No thank you. I immediately turned down the invite. However, with Kirstin and my...

The Daughter of a King

by Melissa Cheatham | Feb 19, 2019 | Children, Faith Matters, Featured, The Blog

My daughter’s name is Ella. She was actually named after my great-great-great grandmother Cinderella, crazy enough. So my Ella has always seen her name as the same as a blond Disney Cinderella princess. She is in the princess phase where Ariel, Belle, and Rapunzel...

Marriage Mantra

by Kirstin Ricketts | Feb 13, 2019 | All The Things, Featured, The Blog

We cheer at the excitement of new love at weddings and why? Because it’s beautiful…two people starting their adventure together. Then a few years in everyone starts saying “It’s so hard.” If “It’s so hard” was your life, we wouldn’t tell you to quit your life....

You Are Worth It

by Kirstin Ricketts | Feb 6, 2019 | Faith Matters, Family, Featured, The Blog

Some days feel like we are fighting through a pile of clutter. That’s what my week felt like until the influenza bomb hit our house and all of the confusion was blown up by 104-degree temperatures and six bottles of Tamiflu. Things around here got quiet and...

Build Your Boat

by Kirstin Ricketts | Jan 31, 2019 | Faith Matters, Featured, Popular, Recommended, The Blog

This summer, my sister and her family visited Ark Encounter, a life-sized reconstruction of Noah’s Ark. As I watched their videos of this gigantic structure, it hit my soul more than ever: people certainly must have thought Noah had lost his mind! In my...

Change My Gaze

by Kirstin Ricketts | Dec 24, 2018 | Beauty & Health, Featured, The Blog

As I drove to the gym this morning, it was snowing…hard. I could barely see where the road was because no plows had made it out to the country roads yet. Carefully I crept along, thinking maybe I should turn back. But winter has just begun, and I can’t start the...