Kirstin Ricketts | Hold Loosely, Live Freely

How To (Gracefully) Steal Your Child’s Easter Candy

by Kirstin Ricketts | Apr 24, 2019 | Home Sweet Home, The Blog

The joy of what is the Easter Egg Hunt, when we want to see our kids’ eyes full of joy and their baskets overflowing with sweet things, leaves us in a predicament post-Easter: What do we do with all of this candy? Ok, so there are a few philosophies on how to solve...

More Than They Deserve

by Kirstin Ricketts | Apr 22, 2019 | Faith Matters, The Blog

As we exit the season of chocolate bunnies and marshmallow chicks, clean up the kitchen and put away the Easter clothes…looking back, what we just celebrated was forgiveness…God giving us more than we deserve…the definition of grace. What if we chose to...

Wait For The Rest of Your Story

by Kirstin Ricketts | Apr 19, 2019 | Faith Matters, The Blog

Good Friday leaves me experiencing a weird paradox of feelings. We call it “good” because Jesus was crucified, and you may know the rest of the story; to Jesus’s disciples, and His mother Mary, who had no idea what was about to happen…this would have been a...

How To Be Nice To Your Relatives

by Kirstin Ricketts | Apr 17, 2019 | Home Sweet Home, The Blog

Ok here is the deal. There are probably only a few things you can control this Easter. Your kids may not sleep the night before; if you try to manage their sugar intake you are going to be miserable; holiday weekends can be a touch of crazy-town. But one thing you can...

One Heck of a Monday

by Kirstin Ricketts | Apr 15, 2019 | Faith Matters, The Blog

It must have been one heck of a Monday. Can you imagine? The hope, the anticipation of what was yet to come? Yesterday was Palm Sunday, when we celebrate Jesus entering Jerusalem and the people laying palm branches down for the donkey to walk on as Jesus entered the...