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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, […]
