August Theme: The Prepared Home
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I made this Baby Jesus in a Manger when I was just a little girl. My mother put it out each Christmas as a decoration for over 2 decades! Salt dough is so easy to use and you can do so much with it! It’s easy to work with so even very young children can…
Did you know that people who practice gratitude are 25% percent happier than those who don’t? According to a study by the Greater Good Science Center they are also more likely to be interested, determined, and enthusiastic than those who don’t. Having an attitude of gratitude can not only make us thrive as people, but…
Originally published in November 2017. Updated December 2023. Can you believe Christmas is just a few weeks away? In our house, we have a lot of different traditions – everything from the recipes I share with my family to how we pick out a Christmas tree to the way we open presents on Christmas morning….
Whew! The last few weeks have been a whirlwind. I think I’ve only been home four or five days in the last month. Seriously. It’s been crazy. Between my husband and I we drove nearly 10,000 miles in the last month. Yikes! And even when I’m home, it often seems like I’m not really home….
The last two weeks have been very full. Last week, on Tuesday we woke up at 4 am and drove 4 hours to Chattanooga to take my sweet Emily to college. It was a long day of standing in line and getting her registered. But it was a really nice day too. We ate lunch…
On Monday we woke up early and drove down south of Knoxville to Madisonville, Tennessee to watch the eclipse. Madisonville was in the path of totality and I was determined to watch the eclipse in all of its glory. It was totally worth the drive! Madisonville was also about half way between Chattanooga and Knoxville…
I’ve been in Atlanta the last few days with my mom. She had a double mastectomy yesterday morning. I haven’t talked much about her breast cancer over the last few months. I tend to be pretty private about family stuff and this has been particularly hard for me to talk about. But there have been…
This morning was hard. Well, let me back up. So yesterday, I woke up at 3:30, got Hannah ready and we headed out for the 2 1/2 hour drive to Knoxville to our ice rink. I watched Hannah’s hour long lesson and then watched her skate for another hour until the ice time was over…
I can’t believe I did this yesterday. So, my husband called me and told me to come to the lawyers office he was at in a meeting. He wanted me to come get Laura’s birth certificate so we could go open a bank account for her. He said the birth certificate was sitting on the…
Hi, friends! I feel like I haven’t been as active on A Virtuous Woman for quite a long time. And I’ve been wanting to share with you things that are going on, but at the same time I tend to be very private and I have a hard time writing when life is stressful. The…