Welcome back to another installment in our monthly Husband of the Blogger LinkUp, where you get to know the man behind the scenes of this blog! 🙂 If you have missed any of our prior interviews that I have done with my husband, Owen, you can find all of them here. You can also join […]
Husband of the Blogger Link Up Part 4: Legacy
It’s time for another installment in the fun Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Series we’ve been doing! If you missed the first 3 parts, you can find those here, here, and here. So far we have covered everything from what our husbands wish we knew on a variety of topics, to their opinion on […]
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011: Don’t Waste Your Wait with Naomi Quick
Naomi Quick is a wife, homeschooling mama to 6 kiddos 8 and under, two of which have been adopted through the foster care system, writer, and speaker dedicated to encouraging and advocating for orphans, adoptive parents, and those involved in the foster care system. She recently wrote a fantastic book entitled “Don’t Waste Your Wait: […]
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The 5 Biggest Barriers to Christian Mama Friendship
Mamas, we need each other. How desperately so! We crave the kind of encouragement, wisdom, understanding, and inspiration which can only come from other moms. And, yet, we regularly act as if we do not believe this to be true. We go through our lives as moms busily rushing from one task to the […]
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Being Your Husband’s Helpmeet: What it Actually Means
Satan is always in the habit of taking what God has actually said about a topic and twisting it, leading us to believe in a dangerous caricature of the truth. Never is this more common, perhaps, than in the area of men’s and women’s roles, not the least of which being the calling of a […]
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010: Cultivating Joy and Simplicity in Your Life with Kristi Clover
Kristi Clover joins me today to provide us with some wonderful and practical tips for how we can be cultivating more joy and simplicity in our everyday lives, even when the going gets tough. As you will discover as soon as you get to know her through this podcast episode, Kristi is the absolute perfect person […]
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Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Pt. 3 - Men’s Ministry in the Church
We are so enjoying doing these Husband of the Blogger Link Ups each month, where Owen gets a chance to come on the blog and share his thoughts! If you have missed our first two installments, you can find those here and here. To follow along with my awesome blogging friends who are also a […]
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Dear Mama Transitioning to Two Kiddos
Dear Mama Transitioning to Two Kiddos, Now 6 months out from having had my second baby, I want to write to you today to encourage you, to warn you of some things no one warned me about, and to, hopefully, through it all, bring you joy as you anticipate the arrival of your […]
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Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Pt. 2 - What Our Husbands Wish We Knew
If you joined us last month for the introductory first part in this fun new series, then you know that I and a handful of blogging friends have started a new monthly post where we bring our husbands into the mix, really involve them in our blogging in a more visible way, and offer you […]
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Review + Giveaway: “I’m Going to Give You a Bear Hug!”
I’m so excited to announce that, today, I’m bringing you the first ever book review/giveaway on the blog! I don’t think I could have started this new blog feature with a cuter book! I’m Going to Give You a Bear Hug, a new release from ZonderKidz, arrived in the mail yesterday morning, and I was so excited […]
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Interview with Kristen Lisemby Lee of Where Joy Is Ministries!
There is a brand new feature here on the blog that I am so excited to be launching today! That new feature is a great new series of interviews with wonderful Christian women who are inspirational blog writers and who are running encouraging Christian ministries through their writing. I’m so excited about sharing with you […]
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New “About Me” Video!
In today’s vlog, I share a little bit about myself and about my heart, purpose, and vision for the Hargraves Home and Hearth blog! Thanks so much for watching and for joining me in this journey! 🙂 I have also totally re-vamped the blog’s “About Me” page, so go check that out, too! 🙂 ~~~~~ […]
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We Now Have a Facebook Group!!!
I have an exciting announcement today!! 🙂 The Hargraves Home and Hearth blog now has a Facebook Group you can join! Please watch to hear the purpose behind this group and what you can expect to find there! 🙂 ~~~~~ Been encouraged or inspired by what you’ve read here today? May I encourage you […]
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So, I’ve had a very good reason for not posting Monday’s Meal Mondays’ Recipe……..
Yep, that’s right! We just found out we’re EXPECTING!! And I am as sick as a dog from morning (and afternoon and evening and whenever it decides to strike) sickness. So, if you don’t see any recipes floating around here anytime soon, you’ll understand. 😉 Please be in prayer for us for a healthy […]
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The Home: A Place for Transforming Souls
Love this! Let’s aspire to make our homes into just such a place, ladies! What an honor and a most important job, wouldn’t you agree? “Household life is not primarily a sphere for cooking, keeping things tidy, sweeping and dusting, nursing and training of children, hospitable entertainment of friends, and the thousand things that must […]
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Confessions of a “Know-it-all”
As noted in my first blog post here at Hargraves Home and Hearth, I began my life in the blogosphere at the age of 15 with my first blog, By His Grace and For His Glory. While I still fully support and endorse many of the posts which were written for that blog, others […]
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A Different Kind of Woman…..
Several years ago when I really began to more actively study the topic of Biblical womanhood and what it means to be a godly woman, Elisabeth Elliot became one of my favorite authors. She can sometimes put things into words as no one else can. What follows is one of my favorite of her quotes. […]
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Hi there, blog world!!! :)
Wow, to be back in the blogosphere again! Or is that back in the saddle again….. Ok, never mind. 😉 Anywho, some of you may remember me as Miss Rebekah Ann S. from www.byhisgraceandforhisglory.blogspot.com. I began that blog at the age of 15 and faithfully posted on it for a few years. In more recent […]