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Raising Our Wild Things

Southern Living - Red Wine Sippin' - Wife - Mom of 3 - Jesus Follower- Mompreneur

June 13, 2017

My Latest “Happy:

As I sit here on the back porch on a much needed wonderful week of vacation with my little boy watching a gorgeous thunderstorm come over the mountain in my happy place with a lovely glass of red I thought…

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November 9, 2016

Constant Balancing Act

Life would you slow down some? Pretty please…Don’t let anyone ever tell you that you can’t do it all. It can all be done. Just not all at once. Life is a constant balancing act. It is a constant battle of…

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January 21, 2016

Spirit of Intentionality

Intentionality. That is my word for 2016.  I recently took a class that challenged me that “I don’t have time” is not an excuse. You do have time. Time is a choice. What you choose to do with your time…

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December 21, 2015

Our 2015 Christmas Card

I LOVE sending and receiving Christmas cards.  It’s one of my favorite holiday traditions.   I wish I could send each and every one of you a Christmas card this year.  From the bottom of my heart, Merry Christmas to…

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December 7, 2015

How We Family

I have received information from the makers of TYLENOL®. The opinions stated are my own. This is a sponsored post. Holiday Memories You MUST watch the above video. Instant chills. No matter who your family is or what dynamics make…

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October 29, 2015

Strong and Kind + Giveaway

Although I follow a lot of celebrities there is only a small percentage of those I follow that I look up to…one of those people is Korie Robertson. For those of you who may not know who Korie is, although I…

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October 19, 2015

Things I’d Tell My 16-Year-Old Self

Isn’t it amazing how your perspective changes in a decade? I can’t wait to do this again in another 10 years and see what I would have told myself in my upper 20s.  ~~~1. You are about to have your…

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September 17, 2015

Vacation 2015 Photo Dump

We had a wonderful vacation last week just the three of us at PCB. Although it was different than vacations in the past when we were just a family of 2 it was so fun to see our almost 15…

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September 1, 2015

Hodge Podge Tuesday

It’s Tuesday and that means it’s time for my weekly hodge podge of my favorites this week.1. THIS MAN.  Sorry to be mush gushy but God did me the biggest favor in giving me this guy as a husband. He…

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February 27, 2015

Some Weeks are Hard

The last week and a half + have been really, really hard…with the exception of Monday night we have not been able to sleep through the night in 10 nights. Our poor baby has not been himself. It has been…

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February 2, 2015

Hello February

Oh hey Monday, we meet again! I hope everyone had a lovely start to their February. We had a very relaxing weekend. Something that was much needed for our household as we have all had colds the past few weeks….

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January 12, 2015

Better late than Never? A Christmas Tour of Our Home

Four simple words: Better. late. than. never. Right? Ok, so maybe you are totally over Christmas and the last thing you want to see is pictures of Christmas at our home and, if that is the case, I am sorry….

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Hello! I am Chelsea. I am the homeschooling mom of 3 and lover of adventures!

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**This post contains affiliate links and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links. There are so many great deals and steals going on right now. Below I am sharing a few of my…

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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 2nd Birthday Party

Somehow, someway my baby is two…this has hit me hard. The fact that I have a FULL ON toddler and not a baby has weighed emotionally on me much more than I thought it would. This year for his second…

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Buy 1 lb Get 1 lb FREE of Mrs. Cavanaugh’s Chocolates

Marie Cavanaugh spent hours in her South Dakota farmhouse each Christmas season making pecan rolls and homemade chocolates for holiday gifting. “It started when my aunt sent her pecan-rolls recipe,” Mrs. Cavanaugh recalled. “I gave the recipe my own touch…

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This is How We Do Easter

In my family we do Easter big! Why? Because it’s the holiday that celebrates that death no longer has a sting and that we now have the promise of spending eternity in Heaven thanks to Jesus’ blood when he died…

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