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Your Home Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Stewarded Well
Having a pinterest perfect home expectation can quietly make you feel like you are never doing enough. The house should be clean. The laundry should be caught up. The counters should be clear. The closets should be organized. The meals should be planned. The routines should be working. And somehow, if you could just get…
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5 Things to Do When You Feel Completely Overwhelmed
When everything feels urgent, you don’t need to do more. You may simply need to pause, reset, and remember what matters. Where do I even begin? The laundry, messages, meals, responsibilities, mental list, things you forgot, things you promised you’d do. I know this feeling all to well. The overwhelm sets in and the mental…
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Where Faith Begins
What makes you feel secure & worthy? Is it striving? Is it achieving goals? Is it feeling like you have a purpose? Take a moment to reflect on these questions. Now I want to ask one more question: What is your heart posture? This is a question I recently came across so let’s dive deep…
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Chasing Slow
“Things will slow down next week” I catch myself wondering ‘Is that a thing?’ as these words roll out again; Things will slow down next week… Do you get to adulthood and suddenly you have a new catchphrase? What does slow even look like? I don’t know but I find myself craving it. I think…
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From Hustle to Healing
This feels a little wrong to share, like maybe it’s a job for someone else, considering I am still on my healing journey. I have a very type A personality. Making a plan is always at the top of my list. I function best when I feel like things are neat and organized. So you…
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This Isn’t About Getting Organized. It’s About Coming Home to Yourself.
I am going to be vulnerable. That is something that doesn’t always come easy to me, but I want to share the dream and vision behind Abide & Organize. If you’ve following along you know that I thought if I could just get my home organized, everything else would finally feel manageable. The clutter, the…
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Reflection
Over the last several years a big trend for New Years is to pick a word of the year. Maybe a word the previous year taught you, a word for looking forward into the new year, or even a word that reflects a goal you have set for yourself. The past two years my words…
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Navigating Time & Finances Through the Holiday Season
I would never consider myself a Pinterest Mom, but I am a Mom who wants to be present for everything. Especially during the Holiday season I feel the pressure to make everything magical. Before I even flip the calendar page to December I can already feel the anticipation of events piling up. School parties, Church…
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Glorifying Busyness
Why do we claim busyness like a badge of honor? Like its a measure of our worth? Recently I sat in a circle of a close group of friends. We had finally made our schedules’ work to squeeze in some time to cookout. As the night went on, we were just sitting around catching up,…
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Created For…
There is a TikTok trend that has been going around a while now that goes something like, “Their childhood but it’s also your motherhood” or “it’s their childhood but it’s your first time in your 30’s”. I can get on board with this trend to an extent because we are all going through life for…