In our day and age, we have forgotten what love really is. On the one hand, we live in a culture which uses the word “love” at the drop of a hat – “I love your top!”, “Oh, I just love pumpkin pie!”, “I love it when it snows”. These statements are made innocuously, […]
Making the Most of Your First Holiday Season Together
This year has absolutely flown by, and we are somehow already embarking on the holiday season! For some of you, this may even be you and your husband’s very first holiday season as a married couple! As exciting, new, and joyful as that is, the holidays can also lead to stress and conflict if […]
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021: The Sex Talk for the Single Girl with Phylicia Masonheimer
Phylicia Masonheimer joins me on the podcast today to discuss topics surrounding her new book, Christian Cosmo: The Sex Talk You Never Had. Whether you are a single gal anticipating marriage, a married woman needing to refresh her perspective of sex, or the mama of daughters, this podcast is for you! Be sure to find me on […]
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Prioritizing Your Marriage in the Midst of Motherhood
I’m so blessed to have my sweet blogging friend, Sue Chacko, on my launch team for Lies Moms Believe. She opened her blog up to me this week to share my heart on one of the topics from the book. I hope it inspires you in your pursuit of prioritizing your marriage in the midst […]
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020: Trusting God in Adversity with Jennifer Defrates
My friend, Jennifer Defrates, is no stranger to hardship, trial, and difficulty. Yet through it all, she has found the Lord to be so faithful, loving, and trustworthy as He brings good out of everything and works miracles even in the darkest times. I know you are going to be encouraged through her testimony today! […]
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Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Part 7: A Wife’s Place
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 […]
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What I Would Go Back and Tell My Newlywed Self
Having been married only three and a half years, my husband and I are by no means an old married couple. We have, however, already grown our family by two children in those first three years, so I feel as if we have already lived a lot of life in our short marriage! Even though […]
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Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Part 6: Our Marriage Advice
It’s time for another installment in the fun Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Series we’ve been doing! If you missed the first 5 parts, you can find those here. So far we have covered everything from what our husbands wish we knew on a variety of topics, to their opinion on men’s ministry in […]
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016: Living Life on Mission with Shontell Brewer
Shontell Brewer joins me on the podcast today to discuss how we can go about living our lives on mission, with purpose and intentionality. She is a wife, mama to five, writer, and lover of hospitality whose passion is to encourage women to live in a Biblical manner. I know you will be inspired and encouraged […]
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Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Part 5: While We Were Dating
It’s time for another installment in the fun Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Series we’ve been doing! If you missed the first 4 parts, you can find those here, here, here, and here. So far we have covered everything from what our husbands wish we knew on a variety of topics, to their […]
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5 Ways Moms Can Fulfill the Great Commission
As many of you may have already picked up on, I have a passion for showing moms that, they too, can go about fulfilling the Great Commission even in the busy season of mothering. So, you can imagine my delight at coming across a likeminded blogger in one of the blogging groups I’m a part […]
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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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Your Husband is not Meant to Complete You
I’m over at Young Wives Club again this month, sharing another article that I hope will prove helpful to you. From the time we’re little girls, many of us dream of one-day meeting and marrying our very own Prince Charming. With visions of marital bliss, no disagreements or hardship to be found, and […]
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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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When Your Husband Doesn’t Bring You Flowers
It’s a joy to share with you today the article I wrote this month for the Young Wives’ Club. I hope it helps and inspires you. I love, love, love being married! Apart from Christ, marriage is the biggest blessing of my life. At some point in our marriage journeys, however, we begin to […]
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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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Leaving Room for Fatherhood
It’s a joy to be guest-posting for my friend, Lauren, again this month! Today, I’m sharing the following thoughts in honor of Father’s Day. As moms, I think we have all been there at one time or another. That moment when we look at our husbands and think them crazy for something they are […]
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008: Sexual Intimacy in Marriage with Keelie Reason
Keelie Reason of Love, Hope, Adventure and I am The Sex Talk Lady joins me for episode 8 of the podcast to talk about the importance of sexual intimacy in marriage and to help us sort through some of the various challenges we may face in this area. *I do apologize for the sound quality […]
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Your Husband is not Your Enemy
I was so honored and excited to be invited last month to be a new monthly contributor over on the awesome site, Young Wives Club! Here is my first article for them. 🙂 We have all had those moments. If we have been married for any length of time at all, we have all had […]
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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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The Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Part 1: Meet the Husband
I am so excited about this new monthly LinkUp post I’m starting! My dear friend Kayla of The Accidental Nomad Life Blog started this fun idea where a handful of us blogging friends are going to be doing these interview posts with our husbands the third Thursday of every month (except for this month - […]
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HandH 003: Foster Care and Adoption with Lauren Jane Bellows
On this episode of the Home and Hearth podcast, I chat with my blogging friend, Lauren Jane Bellows, on the topics of foster care and adoption. Whether or not you currently foster or are an adoptive parent, trust me - you don’t want to miss this one! What We Chat About in This […]
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HandH 002: Mothering and Homeschooling Wisdom from a Mama of 11 with Amy Morse
I am so, so excited to be sharing this interview with you today! On this episode of the Home and Hearth podcast, I chat with my pastor’s wife, Amy Morse, on topics pertaining to her life as a homeschooling mama of 11 children. I admire this lady so very much and gleaned such wisdom and encouragement […]
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Book Review - “Dating in Marriage” by Brittany Putman
If you have been a reader of Hargraves Home and Hearth for any length of time, you likely know that I believe strongly in the importance of keeping your husband first on your priority list (second only to God, of course!), even in the midst of the busy days of motherhood. One of the ways […]
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Wives, Here’s Why and How to be Flirty!
In case y’all missed it on Saturday, I guest-posted over on Keelie Reason’s awesome site, Love, Hope, Adventure, on the topic of how important it is for wives to be flirty with their husbands, as well as some ideas for how they can go about doing just that! I hope you enjoy! “What really […]
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Why We Feel Weak in our Marriages and Mothering
I just love it how the Lord brings people together! Jenn of What You Make It blog and I “met” on Instagram a couple months ago and instantly hit it off. It could have something to do with how much we have in common. We each have two kiddos, our second babies are each […]
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The Home and Hearth Podcast is Coming!
The podcast is coming! The podcast is coming! haha Can you tell I’m a little bit excited? I just wanted to offer y’all an update real quick as to the progress I’m making towards the release of the podcast! I currently have no fewer than 16 ladies who have agreed to come on the podcast, […]
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Holy Homosexuality?: A Response to Jen Hatmaker
[social_warfare] Jen Hatmaker, author of several popular books (one of which, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards, I read earlier this year) and star of the HGTV show, My Big Family Renovation, has become a household name in recent years, with a large following in many Christian circles. […]
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The Spiritual War on Marriage
[social_warfare] I want to issue a warning to you today and that is this: [clickToTweet tweet=”At this very moment, there is a spiritual war being waged against your marriage!” quote=”At this very moment, there is a spiritual war being waged against your marriage!”] Not merely your friend’s marriage or your neighbor’s marriage or your favorite […]
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My Top 10 Books from 2015!
~~~~ **Please note: In the pursuit of full disclosure, this post does contain Amazon Affiliate Links!** ~~~~ If you know me, then you know that I am one voracious reader! I have loved reading as far back as I can remember, am well known for reading while brushing my teeth (gotta take full advantage […]
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Vlog: A Christmas Message for Busy Mamas
Are you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and anxious this Christmas season? Are you a busy Mama trying to do it all and be it all, in order to make this Christmas special for your family? I know how you feel! I know what it’s like to be staring at a never-ending to-do list that stems from […]
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10 Practical Tips for Putting Your Husband First
Articles abound today on the topic of putting your husband first. On the one hand you have the sad, misinformed, unfortunate articles which speak to the idea that your kids come first and that’s just the way it has to be when they’re young. On the flip side you have the very helpful, […]
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5 Tips for Girls in the Throes of Wedding Planning
The other day, a young woman who used to read my old blog came across Hargraves Home and Hearth (which is great, seeing as how, with not remembering my old password, I couldn’t make a post on my old blog directing my readers to this one!). She mentioned that she is just over 40 days […]
