by Janel Breitenstein | Dec 29, 2021 | challenging, children, closeness and intimacy, closeness; intimacy, community, compassion, enduring love, faith, Family, Holidays; Occasions, infographics, kids, love, Printables and Freebies, relationships, romance, staying in love, time together
But for the last few days, I’d been sifting through a few emotions about 2022. A new year comes with some gravity–especially after a tough 2021 for my family. Recently I completed a yearly prayer of Examen–my second year of a new personal tradition....
by Janel Breitenstein | Dec 17, 2021 | children, difficulty, discouragement, encouragement, enduring love, faith, Family, grief, Holidays; Occasions, Humor, kids, love, time together
May all your kids come home, and may they get along with each other. Or at least fake it. May you have a white Christmas to the point that you feel Christmas-y and can say no to an activity you didn’t really want to go to, but don’t lose electricity and...
by Janel Breitenstein | Dec 4, 2021 | children, Family, kids, Parenting, practical, prayer, time together, tweens and teens
So I don’t know what your kids’ morning routine is like at your house. Maybe you picture me lovingly folding lunchbox notes and sandwiches built from the sprouts on my windowsill, sitting down to a full breakfast with devotional book in hand. In reality,...
by Janel Breitenstein | Nov 24, 2021 | children, Family, free download, Gratitude, helping others, Holidays; Occasions, Home and Hospitality, Ideas, kids, Printables and Freebies, shareables
Confession: My heavenly intentions for Thanksgiving are often clobbered by my oh-so-real life. I would love to be preparing our hearts all month for gratitude, but I find myself picking up someone else’s rank gym socks. I would love to be stuffing a jar with...
by Janel Breitenstein | Nov 20, 2021 | Africa
So there’s this word with about 47 definitions: blessed. It’s tagged on a new car on Insta, or on a T-shirt, a SpongeBob meme, or scrawled happily in house word art. But blessed can be confusing to me. When things are going right, am I blessed by God? When...
