Making Your Home Your Haven - Week 3

Yay, it's week 3, but also sad it's almost over, I hope she does a Christmas Challenge too!!
So week 3 is Family Fun Night...so fun we have been doing this off and on. But this week I am going to make a point to do it. We usually do Movie Night on Sundays, or walks, Mondays is a busy day for me so sometimes if I go groceries late we can't do much. Some Tuesdays nights I'm not home, so it's a hit and miss for this, like this Tuesday I won't be home, family will be. Wed nights we either stay home or go to Church, just depends. So looks like Thurs or Fri night would be good nights for this. Sat eve's we have soccer games and Sundays like I said we do something anyway. I'm going to have to be creative this week. Let's see what we come up with this week. Do you guys have any suggestions, or what do you do?

Here's this weeks challenge:

Keep your candle burning, the music playing and plan a Family Fun Night. Have a pillow party in the family room and get out every blanket and pillow in the house and be cozy with the kids or your hubby! Even if you live alone you can do this. Enjoy a cozy evening of hot cider and caramel corn. Bust out some old fashioned games and take the time to savor these moments with your loved ones. Work on kindness and joy this week.

Her suggestions sound like so much fun!! Let me know what you are doing for family fun night.

Here is another suggestion for conversation starters for the dinner table. I might try these this week. I will let you know how that goes.

So heres her **Chime In**

How is the Making Your Home a Haven Challenge going in your house?  For the most part going well, I remembered almost every day. The days I didn't is because we weren't going be home. And on Sat mornings I do but not on Sundays. 

Here's what it pretty much looked like all last week, this week the same. But you get the point. LOL 

Do you have your candle and music going? Every morning except for Sunday, I usually forget after we get home for church. 

What is your favorite thing to do for fun with your family? Favorite thing to do for fun with family is anything. Anytime I'm with them it's fun making memories. Walks, movie theatres, outings, etc. 

What is your favorite board game to play with your family? Favorite board game is "Sorry", it's easy and fun and my daughter always wins. I love her face when she wins.

Share a special memory with your family, from your childhood. I will share when my dad would take us out Christmas Tree shopping and one year he added fake snow to it. That was the best I still remember the day it was a crisp December Evening at it was close to Christmas. So it was a cold one, and I remember the bright light shining in the lot and there must have been a fire going outside because I remember the smell of smoke, not cigarettes but wood burning smoke. And I remember my Dad saying "And add the fake snow". I was the happiest little girl in town that night. 

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Making Your Home Your Haven - week 2

It's week 2 👏!! Did you just love the first week? I did, it did made the house smell yummy, and felt warm and cozy, even though it was warm outside, lol. The girls loved it to coming downstairs in the morning to eat breakfast and read. I'm gonna be honest I didn't do it on the weekend, we had a busy week but it is lit this morning and got my music playing, worship music.

Here's the Challenge:

This week’s challenge:

Keep your candles burning, your prayers going and add soft music in your home.

Choose worship, classical, jazz or another form of peaceful music that the family enjoys. Focus on using peaceful words and maintaining peaceful relationships.

Work on gentleness and self-control this week.

I use my iPad and we listen to Pandora, it's free and you can customize your playlists, from all kinds of Jonras, it's pretty awesome. Love the challenge, can't wait for the Oppt'y to put gentleness and self control into action. I struggle in this, let's keep it real, who doesn't struggle. We all have a flesh. But this week I'm gonna purpose in my heart when I can't do this to pray right away and call on the one who sustains and provides my every lacking need. Jesus!!

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Making Your Home a Haven: Fall Challenge - Week 1

I am so excited {{{Squeal, squeal!!!}}} for this Fall Challenge. I always look forward to doing this challenge every year. As I stated in previous post. So today is the first week....yay! {{jumping up for JOY!!}}

Here is this weeks Challenge info, please also click here to check out more of WLW's info on this week. 

Week 1 – CHALLENGE:

Go buy an extra large candle and light a candle everyday in your home. I will be starting mine in the morning but you can start yours at dinner time or whenever is convenient for you.  I will be placing mine in the kitchen – the main hub of my home.

Each time the glimmer of the candle catches your eye, say a prayer for peace and patience within your home.

You are an environment.

Let’s make our homes feel more like a warm hug than a cold shoulder for all those who find refuge under our roof this week!

So if you already have fall scented you don't need to buy a new. Also if your on a budget the Dollar Tree sells some for $1, they are cute and smell yummy. Another great store that sells amazing smelling candles is Bath and Body works. They are having some sales on their current Fall candles right now, and if you use your 20% you can get some on the cheap. 

She wanted us to chime in...here's some questions she asked. 

What type of environment are you? Here's a few examples she gave on her blog

 Have you ever considered that YOU are an environment?  What type of environment are you?

Are you the warm and hospitable type? I can be

Are you the cheery, sunshine type? Sometimes, not all the time. 

Are you calm and quiet? Most of the time

Harried and hurried? During parties with lots of people....working on this one. 

Irritable and angry? Sometimes, when I'm feeling rushed. 

Or perhaps tired and ticked-off? This past weekend I was due to lack of sleep, oh Lord forgive me. 

What type of environment are you? All of the above.

What gets in the way of your peace and patience in your home? Satan, my flesh, not relying or trusting in God first. 

Have you begun to light your candle?  What scent is your candle and does your family like the candle? I lit it this weekend, they love coming home to a nice smelling home. Today was cleaning day so I will be lighting one of our new ones. See pics below

Here’s a picture of what I’m using this week – I LOVE these scents from Bath and Body works, these I was not planning on buying but I took my daughter and her friends bday shopping. They wanted to go in and I just had to splurge with sales and coupons they came out pretty cheap. Yay!! 

Here is another candle, see pic below,  I will be using this week as well, I was blessed by a friend last week with this amazing scented candle.

So excited for this challenge! Thanks Courtney again, love you sis, you are such a blessing and Titus 2 Woman for all of us walking with the King!!

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Making Your Home a Haven Fall Challenge

Hi Friends!! I am so excited!! WLW {Women Living Well }, Courtney, is doing her annual Fall Challenge - Making Your Home Your Haven. I've joined almost every year and love it. I look forward to these challenges. If you would like to join us, just follow her blog, click here or on pic above and check back here too. I am going to be posting something's myself. I would love for you to join us.


Here is some info on it.

From WLW website..

So this challenge is all about living out the word of God within the four walls of our home.

I will be posting about these fall challenges on Mondays. 

Each week I will give you one practical tip and one spiritual tip that you can do to create a haven in your home.

Is your calendar full? Do you feel tense, rushed and even panicked at times? Do you feel like the rest of the family is feeling the same way?

I believe we can create a physical environment, as well as a spiritual environment, that can bring peace, harmony and a sense of calmness to our homes if we are willing to be intentional.

 This challenge will run through the month of October and please go to he website to watch Her video. 

Here's what the first week will look like.

“The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.” ~ Proverbs 14:1

Here’s the topic schedule:

Week 1: October 6th -Go buy an extra large candle and light a candle everyday in your home.

I will be starting mine in the morning but you can start yours at dinner time or whenever is convenient for you.. I will be placing mine in the kitchen – the main hub of my home. Each time the candle catches your eye, say a prayer for peace in your home.

Here's what I will be using this year, for this challenge. It came at a perfect time, a sweet friend came over a couple days ago and blessed me with this amazing smelling candle. Thanks Amiga!! 😊

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Challenge | Count Your Blessings

Hi!!! Happy March! This month I wanted to do a  Count your Blessings | Challenge . St. Patricks day is the inspiration for this challenge. We are "Blessed" not "lucky" and I wanted to challenge you to count your blessings this month..name them one by one!

Will you join me in "Counting your Blessings" this month?  All you have to do is post this to your blog, facebook, twitter, google+, hashtag #countyourblessings or any social media. Subscribe to my channel, youtube channel, and leave a comment below letting me know your joining us and I would love to hear your blessings.

I will be posting every Monday on this...so come join me. Make sure to link down below so we can blog hop

I will start:

• My salvation....for which I am nothing without Jesus in my life
• My Husband/My Bestfriend....He completes me, I appreciate him so much
• My 3 beautiful daughters, they bless meto pieces in soo many ways
• My Home it provides a shelter for me
• My car it gets me to and from safely and comfortably

Count your Blessings....
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Savoring September - Week 3

Thank you Sarah Mae for putting this all together, I am having so much fun doing {not by myself this time}. Well here's what we have been doing so far.

Week 1 we got all our fall stuff out and we decorated our homes and ourselves and are ready for fall!!!
Week 2 we splurged a little on a Fall drink, planned out a Fall Gathering and Fall Activities

Week 3
So many fun things going on at Sarah Mae's blog.

First here are the challenges for this week:

1.) If you haven't done so decorate your home. CHECK

2.) going T.V. free this week, and I’m making my kiddos do the same. This will be a challenge but can be  done!!

And then hop on over to Sarah's site, click here, she is giving away Woodwick candles, and I hear these are amazing!!!


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Savoring September - Week 2

It's Week 2 of Savoring September @ Sarah Mae's Blog !!!

It has been so much fun and a blessing doing this challenge, I even got an early start...shhh!!!

Here are this week's challenges {Squeal!! love them!!}

1.) If you can swing it, treat yourself to a yummy fall drink. My indulgences of choice are a Salted Caramel Mocha from Starbucks, Chai Latte's or the Pumpkin Spice Latte's {YUMM!!!!}

2.) Plan a “First Day of Fall” (or “Happy Fall Ya’ll!”) celebration! This can be just with your family, your kids during the day or after school, or something you invite friends to. The 22nd falls on a Sunday, this is so much fun. I try to do this every year! Fall Fun, food and fellowship you can't go wrong. I've got mine planned!

3.) Get your calendar out and plan some fun fall activitie/fall bucket lists! You probably already have some fall traditional activities that you do each year, but try and find something new as well. Go to your town’s website and check out the calendar to see what fun things are planned for this month. I've already planned things and will be adding a new thing this year.

So friends, what’s on your agenda this week to savor September? I want to know so I get some more ideas!

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P.S. Tonight is the first Webinar in the Discipleship & Discipline e-Course! See email below Sally will be talking about Laying a Foundation of Love with your children – see the full course description here. There is still time to sign up (700 people are already joining us)!




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Savoring September - Week 1

I am joining  Sarah Mae with her challenge for "Savoring September". And I am so loving decorating and getting ready FALL. And will be sharing with you what I've done..... Yes, it's been so much fun!

Here are my "Fallonizing My Home" ideas this week:

Here are just a few things I have done. If you don't have that much it's OK, start small. When I first started decorating I used things I had on hand, and then brought stuff from the outside in like: pine cones, leaves etc. That was when I first started decorating for fall, many years ago and little by little I accumulated a few things. You can view previous posts here, here, here, and here.

Also the best time to shop for Holiday deco is after the Holidays, you will get stuff at rock bottom prices from 70-90% off. Even now, if you can't wait until after, they have 40-50% off Fall stuff. You just have to look and keep an eye out. I also scored allot of great stuff at yard sales, thrift stores and discount stores. the dollar tree and 99 cents stores have tons of cute stuff too. So really you can put together some cute stuff in no time. It doesn't have to be fancy, just whatever gives you warm fuzzies. LOL...so here is what I did. Every ones taste is different, so go with what you like.

Before Fallonizing: Dining Room Tables-cape 

After Fallonization: Dining Tablescape {simple, nothing fancy]

Before: Dining Room Hutch

After: Dining Room Hutch

You can also start out with a small candle that has a fall scent to it, there are so many yummy smelling candles out there. I have a Scentsy candle, I got many many years ago and it's still working. But Walmart sells those types of candle warmers for cheap. But they don't work as well as the Scentsy one, I have both. Walmart also sells the little candle cubes to put in them for really cheap as well. My family is allergic to regular wick candles so I don't burn those. But I do have them around the house as deco, but don't use them. The Scentsy candle warmer, has so far, worked the best. The smells resonate for a long time in the house and it doesn't bother us too much.

So to start out:
{here's my list}

• Fall Aroma: Light a Fall scented, yummy, candle. CHECK
• Fall Decorations: This week pull out a few fallish decorations, as I've done already, and begin to prepare your home for a new season!!  CHECK
• Pick out a Fall book: I am  following Denise in Bloom and will be joining her when her Fall Book "The Autumn Bliss" Ebook comes out this September. Waiting for it to come out.
• Fallonize Yourself : With a fallish color nail polish, I also dye my hair around this time.  CHECK

 This Fall color I chose is from Revlon: 043 Forbidden. I love it!!

• Make Fall Food: Here's what I made, I will share the links so you can try them out too!! CHECK

Pumpkin, Banana, Chocolate Chip Bread!!
{made this on Friday}

Pumpkin Spice Latte, Pumpkin Bread &
 Coffee Cake
{made this, this Sat morn'in}

Denise in Bloom shared a Fall recipe, on her blog on Friday, "Pumpkin Banana Chocolate Chip Bread" {check it out here} . It makes a ton I used one regular loaf pan and had 3 mini loafs. I shared one with a friend and they liked it. Family loved it as well, this one is a keeper.

Since I couldn't make it to Starbucks this morning I decided to make my own Pumpkin Spice latte to accompany my breakfast desserts {see pics above}. I've posted this recipe before, go check it out...click here. I make this throughout the Fall every year. 

• Reflect: I loved the quote Sarah Mae posted. CHECK

 “Let’s think of Autumn as a season of reflection. Time to gain new perspective. To stroll along the back roads of our minds. To think about what. And where. And why. Such visits through the museum of memory never fail to assist us in evaluating the way we were and establishing the way we want to be.” -Chuck Swindoll, Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life - See more  

• This week, take some time to think about your life. What are you hoping for this year? What are some areas that you’d like to see a maturing in your life? Your kids lives? Journal out one area you’d like to be intentional about this month – an area of strength that you’d like to improve, or perhaps a weakness you’d like to address. Just focus on one thing. Working on this

Come back Monday for Week Two of this series!

Happy Fallonizing your home!!

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Savoring September!!

I am joining Sarah Mae in "Savoring September" a new series she is doing in September!! {{Squeal, Squeal!!}} and YAY!!!! Alot of you know how I love this time of year, all the way up until Summer. I am already starting to decorate for Fall and will be posting some pics soon, so come back and check those out.

So to kick off the first week of September.... I wanted to show some Septemeber love. Enjoy and Happy Septemeber and Fall!!


And did you know they started selling them on Wed, August 28, 2013!!! So go out and grab one and celebrate...it's pre-season!!! Lol!


Amen to this!! Deep breathe in....deep breathe out!


Yep!! This pretty much sums it up...except for Halloween, we don't roll like that. LOL And they forgot to add Starbucks Pumpkin spice Latte's. Just scratch out Halloween and add Pumpkin Spice Latte's.

This is just a few of my favorite things for Fall/September. I will be posting more Fall Favorites coming soon!! Keep on the look out. But for now, enjoy what the Lord has in store for you in September!! Please share with me what your favorite things are in September. If you liked this post make sure to let me know and if there is anything you would like me to show or share, or do diy projects please let me know in the comments below. I will be posting a Fall Favorites and other videos soon!!

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Happy Fall Y'all!!!

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{Week 4} Marriage Challenge: Be My Valentine

“When you touch your husband’s deepest need something good almost always happens!”

~ Dr. Emerson Eggerich

The first week we praised our husbands verbally, the second week we praised him and showed him, the third we got intimate {physical, physical...I wanna get physical....lol}. So how did it go?

It's Valentines week, it's finally here!! I am really excited, we are planning a really nice dinner with the family. And then an evening with the my hero!!! Woooohooo!!!

Ok, so here's our final challenge.....really be intentional with this one, go bless his socks off ladies! :)

Week 4 February 11th – Women love romance, chocolate and flowers on Valentines Day. Do you know what your husband wants? Ask him! I’ll give you some ideas of what I have planned later  !

Go to Women Living Well for more ideas.

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