Month: November 2014

Marriage is Work. Here’s How to MAKE it Work.

By Jed Rasmussen Jed and Tawnya have a FANTASTIC marriage. Seriously, just watching them at random moments together, you can feel how sweet they are with each other. We’ve been camping with them, and I don’t know if you’ve ever been camping before, but in case you haven’t, I’ll tell you that tent walls are very thin. If there is any marital discord to be heard, the tent walls do not disguise it. But we heard nothing of the sort. Just niceness. I knew we needed their wisdom, so I asked them to guest post. Also, I am told that… Read More

Choosing to Choose Love Over Fear in Your Marriage

By Celeste The title of this post makes it sound like I’m maybe going to talk about fear of infidelity or some serious trust issues. I’m not. I’m going to talk about little choices we face everyday when we see our spouse’s flaws and we can either choose to fear or we can choose to love. Guess who has two thumbs and has no flaws…….. nobody. That was a trick question. Nobody is flawless. Unfortunately that includes you. Equally as unfortunate, that includes your spouse. When you get to know someone on a marital level, those flaws are bound to… Read More

Fatigue Picture Outtakes

By Celeste So last week, I wrote this post about how to strengthen your marriage when you’re really, really tired.  The post had been almost done for weeks, so I was super anxious to just get it out already.  The thing that was holding me up was a pin-worthy image.  I had perused my options on my go-to free image sources and was coming up empty.  I found the perfect image on Fotolia of this nice attractive lady yawning (who I’m pretty sure did NOT just wake up but had her make up a little underdone and tousled hair to… Read More

Reader Submission/ Life Advice

By Celeste and Rich I was sent this message on Friday: I’ve been wanting (and trying!) to get married for forever (it seems) and thus, doing everything I can to prepare for it, i.e. reading articles/blogs, talking to married ppl, going to marriage prep classes, becoming a better person, dating a lot, etc. But I also have a unique situation where the Lord has told me I need to prepare for a career. So I’ve been working on that the last 3 years and I’ve finally found a career that works for me - counseling. Unfortunately, this requires many more… Read More

Dear me, You got this. (A letter to my past one-child self)

By Celeste Yesterday Claire guest posted on my blog and today I did on hers.  We pulled the old switcheroo on you.  She asked me to write about advice for having more than one kid (she has one kid :). I decided to write a letter to myself back when I had just one kid.  I was pretty overwhelmed at that point, so I think I would have benefited from my own advice to not be such a worrywart. Anyway, check it out:  post here. 1 Comment Share