How to Afford the Large Family Christmas
For a Christian blogger, it may seem unspiritual to equate Christmas balance and peace to finances but after 24 years of marriage and parenting, I’m all done pretending that issues don’t exist when...
View ArticleHow to Balance the Needs of the Large Family at Christmas
With the birth of every new baby in our family we have gradually scaled back on time commitments out of a shear lack of time and energy. However, no matter how much you intentionally scale back your...
View ArticleSimple Christmas Traditions for the Whole Family
Long before simple was ‘in’, I was into simple. And frankly, with 8 kids in our family, there isn’t time for much more than simple Christmas traditions. Just because a tradition is simple, doesn’t...
View ArticleBest Tips for Traveling With Kids
From babies on red eye flights to sailing with sea sick toddlers, we have done a l o o o t of traveling with our 8 kids. So a simple 3 hour car trip to visit family should be a peice of cake, right?...
View ArticleSimple Handmade Christmas Ornaments
It has been raining here in Southern California. This is so unusual, we are all terrified to go outside. We cranked up the Christmas music and donned our fuzzy slippers for a day indoors. Since...
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