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Praise & Giveaway: God and Me Devotional #TommyMommy

February 20, 2014 By Melanie

Disclaimer: I am a Tommy Mommy. I receive free products in exchange for my honest reviews.  For the past 2 years, I have facilitated a women’s Bible study on Wednesday nights. This quarter we are reading Francis Chan’s Crazy Love. We are currently in week 5 and honestly it is probably the most challenging book… [Read More]

The Silent Beat of My Heart

February 3, 2014 By Melanie

Any mother who has ever had a fussy or sick baby knows that it is heart wrenching. You are up at night, wandering the halls, singing sweet lullabies and whispering shhh shhh shhh over and over in your little ones ears. You jiggle them. Rock them. You do the magic combo –  jiggle, rock, shhh shhh Mommy thing.  It’s natural. Almost innate. Except, when… [Read More]

Create Beautiful Memories

January 13, 2014 By Melanie

I went to the movies the other night and in the background was a sign that read, “Write Beautiful Things.” It kind of stuck in my head and I have thought about how I would like to work on making more conscious memories everyday. Time seems to go by so quickly. My little one is… [Read More]

January’s Faithful Family Giveaways Linky!

January 12, 2014 By Melanie

  It’s a new year! Time to link up all your wonderful faithful family giveaways! I will leave the posting up until January! So come back and add more! Feel free to share with friends and a little tweet or FB love is always appreciated.  

Praise: Bible in a Year for Kids! Tommy Nelson

January 5, 2014 By Melanie

Disclaimer: I received the Bible in a Year as part of my affiliation with Tommy Nelson Mom’s. All thoughts, ideas, opinions and photos are property of Sunshine Praises. Sometimes I can be a bit of a procrastinator and with the new baby I haven’t been as “on it” when it comes daily devotions with my… [Read More]

Praise: Pampers Swaddlers – Celebrating Firsts

December 3, 2013 By Melanie

This review was made possible by Double Duty Divas and Pampers. I was provided the featured product free of charge to facilitate my review, but all opinions are 100% mine. When I was a newborn, my father worked for a large company that made the first disposable diaper.  As a gift to all their employees, each family… [Read More]

Update! Thirty Days of Thanksgiving #InstaThanks13

November 24, 2013 By Melanie

Its been a fabulous Thirty Days of Thanksgiving on Instagram! Just a few more days to go! Have you given it a go? It’s getting harder to find things as the month goes on. Here are some of my most recent #InstaThanks13 Posts! Thankful for my camera. It enables me to capture all my important… [Read More]

Happy 5th Birthday Lulu!

November 13, 2013 By Melanie

I haven’t had a chance to write my annual “questionaire” post with Lu yet but I am planning on doing it this weekend. However, I wanted to share this little collage honoring her birthday! We had a fabulous day and I am looking forward to a fun and busy weekend with lots more celebrations.  … [Read More]

My Not So Little Pumpkin

October 31, 2013 By Melanie

We are in candy overload over here so I decided to share a cute little picture of Ezra in his “My First Halloween” outfit. It was the same outfit that Lu wore on her first Halloween. Of course, she was 11.5 months and he is 4.5 months. Can you say chunker?   I know it’s… [Read More]

Imperfectly Perfect {Part 2}

October 2, 2013 By Melanie

You can find Part 1 of our story here! I know this is going to be shocking but when they first told me that the baby was probably Deaf, I didn’t tell my husband. I didn’t tell him because in the Deaf community, having a Deaf baby is a really really good thing. It is a… [Read More]

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