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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...

Be All In

by Melissa Cheatham | Apr 16, 2019 | Faith Matters, The Blog

A few years ago this picture, not doctored or photoshopped, went viral. Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey was reading the New York Times bestselling book “The Case for Christ;” a book where the author, who is a legal editor with a background as an expert...

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...

Be Nice To My Friend

by Kirstin Ricketts | Apr 12, 2019 | All The Things, The Blog

“Do I want to own this?” It’s a great phrase to repeat to yourself when you clean out your house, but it also reminds me of a conversation via text a friend and I had back and forth last night. She said, “If that person knew the train wreck I am like you do, she...

Easy Salmon Recipes You Will Want to Repeat

by Melissa Cheatham | Apr 10, 2019 | The Blog, The Feed

There are about 1000 different ways to cook salmon. For our family, I like to keep it an easy weeknight option, so I throw it in foil and stick in on the grill or in the oven. The prep is simple, the cooking time is short, and my people just devour it… those facts...

Spring Cleaning…What I Ask Myself

by Kirstin Ricketts | Apr 10, 2019 | Home Sweet Home, The Blog

Ok, I watched the first episode of Marie Kondo’s show, and I’ll admit it: her way of folding t-shirts and placing them upright in your drawers is actually kind of magical. You can see every shirt in the drawer without messing up the pile, and they do fit better....