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How To Stop The Yelling

by Kirstin Ricketts | Oct 23, 2019 | Faith Matters, Home Sweet Home, The Blog

As we stepped over the sidewalk chalk drawings on the way into gymnastics, I noticed the pictures said the same thing over and over…”I want to go home.” You could see as we got closer to the door that an adult had inserted the word...

Questions To Ask Your Husband

by Kirstin Ricketts | Oct 21, 2019 | Home Sweet Home, The Blog

Remember when you were dating, and you freely asked the man you would someday marry questions without either of you assuming there was any agenda? You were learning about each other and dreaming of building a life together. I believe that if we want to know these men...

Becoming Us

by Kirstin Ricketts | Oct 18, 2019 | All The Things, Book, Faith Matters, The Blog

If I was created to live life with my God as His child, then when I choose to live life on my own, I am choosing the life of an orphan, of one who has been abandoned. But I am not abandoned, my God calls me His child. On my son’s birthday, what if he looked at his...

I Can Do All Things

by Kirstin Ricketts | Oct 16, 2019 | Faith Matters, Home Sweet Home, The Blog

Momming…most of my best ideas come from watching other moms and thinking, “Oooooh that. I’m going to do that too.” The simple, repeatable building blocks that we can copy and emulate…matter My son’s preschool teacher did this with her daughters – they would...

Build Your Home Well

by Melissa Cheatham | Oct 15, 2019 | Family, Home Sweet Home, The Blog

I think most of us would agree that raising kids and building a family in our world today can be pretty challenging. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night thinking through something with my kids, and I pray for wisdom to make the right decision. There is a...

Open It Up and Take A Listen

by Kirstin Ricketts | Oct 14, 2019 | All The Things, Faith Matters, The Blog

Imagine a movie where the character could open a book and the text would light up, telling her things she would need to know for the road ahead, tips about how life works best, and the truth about herself. If the book were sitting on the table, you would be anxiously...