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Gloomy days, lighting candles, fluffing pillows… Gloomy days, lighting candles, fluffing pillows… clipping flowers from the garden while it’s still sunny and bringing joy inside. A happy raspberry dress and a heart full of slow thoughts, ruminating on what is true. I’m learning again to slow down and see the beauty in what’s right here, right now — not just in what’s coming next. Not waiting for the perfect home, or schedule, or season to feel settled or joyful or purposeful… but choosing to love the *now* — the toys scattered on the floor, the friends and family filling our home, the loud little voices, the ordinary rhythms and daily chores — and making them lovely, any which way. Because this is the life I get to live today, and I don’t want to miss it while hoping for something shinier, quieter, or more “put together.” I’m finding that contentment is built slowly, in the quiet hours… in folding blankets, opening the windows, setting out a thrifted vase of flowers from the garden. These simple tasks are the work of making a home. A beautiful life isn’t waiting in the next season — it’s here, hidden in the small, faithful things. So I’ll light the candle in the midst of the storm and call this moment sacred. I’ll find joy in the cleaning, the arranging, the preparing. I’ll be content here, even as I grow and hope and dream. And I’ll let tomorrow be tomorrow. 🕯️📖🧹🌷 Dress is part of the @christydawn Summer II Collection 🌸 the Adele in Raspberry Vine 🌿 #christydawnsteward — discount code 10MARY ☀️
We’ve done themed birthdays for a long time now We’ve done themed birthdays for a long time now (with all the decorations and details that come with them) but over the last year, we’ve felt a pull to simplify. With a big family (and the hope to grow!), we’re trying to be more intentional and sustainable in the way we celebrate. 🧺 Enter: our heirloom birthday basket. 🎁 A few thoughtful touches that get used year after year, with space for each child’s personal favorites. I’d still really love to sew and embroider a crown (and maybe something else — still deciding! I thought about a happy birthday banner, but we’ve got plenty of garland… any ideas?). We keep it simple, but full of joy: 🥞 Favorite breakfast, lunch, and dinner 🎂 Cake / cupcake / cheesecake — their choice! 🎈 A few special gifts (usually books, clothes (shoes if needed), something they may not know of but we think they’d love or need, and a few favorites from their wishlist) 🎟️ Sometimes a membership, experience, or special outing (often gifted by grandparents who are far away) Rudy didn’t feel any less celebrated without paper dinosaur garland. In fact, the kids were all so excited to see what was waiting downstairs that morning (even though they’d seen our basket for months leading up to it haha) and Nora’s already counting down to hers next month. (They’re also planning for my birthday …in November, lol.) 🪿 One of my dear friends is one of five, and her parents did the *exact same* birthday for all five of their kids every single year, and she cherishes those memories deeply. Hearing that a while back helped spark this idea for our own family. 🍧 Overall the whole point is showering each other with love. The kids make each other homemade gifts, cards, and we pray over them, and share our favorite things or memories from that year with them. We pray for the year ahead, and that God would grow and shape them into who He has for them to be. Their life is a GIFT and they’re a blessing to our family, and we adore celebrating them!!! 🥳 Do you do something similar for birthdays? Have you found ways to keep celebration simple but special? Would love to hear what birthday traditions you may hold for your family ❤️
Sweetest little views of the girls’ room 🩰🐷🎀🌷🌸 With the most precious additions — these darling new silhouettes and frames collection from @ohhoneysilhouettes 🌼 I adore having their silhouettes displayed in their room, so we can compare how they’ve grown over the years. These new frames make such a precious keepsake, that I’ll always treasure. ✨ To shop the girls’ room, just comment GIRLS and I’ll get them straight to your inbox! Feel free to comment with any questions though. Always happy to help! 💛
I have always gone “all-out” for birthdays, bu I have always gone “all-out” for birthdays, but at the end of last year I decided it would be more meaningful, sustainable, and sentimental to instead curate a birthday basket filled with heirloom pieces we can pull out for everyone’s birthdays, year after year. It was time to add in a birthday plate and I wanted to try my hand at doing it at home affordably (rather than heading for a pottery painting studio — though, I think id like to do this eventually, also)! Here’s how I did it — 🍽️ picked up a ceramic plate from my local Target 🖊️ ordered this porcelain pen per @courtney__weston’s suggestion & free handed a fun and unique design ⏰ let it set for 24 hours 🔥 baked in the oven for 30 mins at 200°F We used it for my son’s birthday this week and it was precious! I decided to hand wash it to play it safe, but so far it’s perfectly great! 🎂 If you try it out — let me know! There are tons of inspiring photos on Pinterest, too! Check out my birthday highlight for links & more! 🪿 🎈 🎉
I have a tendency to freeze up when I’m feeling I have a tendency to freeze up when I’m feeling overwhelmed and bogged down. When my list feels too long. When the burdens feel too heavy. Sometimes I think quieting the noise is necessary, though. As a people pleaser I find that if I don’t prioritize Jesus, my family, and what brings joy… everything will crumble. But if I do? Oh, then I’ll see glimmers of hope and goodness in every nook and cranny. Sometimes that looks like pausing a task to jump in the car and catch the sunset while chasing geese. 🪿Sometimes it looks like not over explaining myself when I’m feeling misunderstood, and allowing the freedom that comes with the fact that I am HIS …be enough. ☀️ One of my favorite @christydawn dresses, the Brynne, was just released in the most darling 🍓 print with 🌸 and gingham ties. It’s a sweet one! My girls look forward to wearing all my CD dresses when they’re older 🥹 code 10MARY will save you a bit 🧺 #christydawnsteward
When I was pregnant with my fourth babe my doulas When I was pregnant with my fourth babe my doulas invited me to be part of their book club. 3 years later and those mamas are some of my dearest friends and I’m so thankful for our monthly mom nights, spontaneous play dates, and linking arms to do life together. A couple years ago, I saw a need for little girls to gather together in a way that my two oldest daughters could both be part of (they’re 16 months apart). I set out to start my own little girls book club and invited a few moms with girls around the same age. We took a pause this past year as some of us collaborated in launching our own homeschool co-op, but it’s been revived and we are just head over heels. 📖 It’s so fun 😂 even us moms have the best time. One day, we’ll start a little boys book club too. Most of us have little boys also, so I’m eager for the days we can bring our boys and all the things together for them too! 🦖 🚂 🐍🚢⚡️📚 🦁 Here’s how we have done it for our girls: 🌸 Our age range right now between us all is 5-9. 🌸 We choose a book to read through at home for a month 🌸 Gather at one of our homes (rotating whose home we utilize for hosting) to snack, discuss the book, and do a craft related to the book 🌸 Moms chat, and girls play! Then we all clean up together It can be a whole lot simpler, you don’t need to decorate, or dress up. The moms and girls in our group just *love* being extra so it’s how we choose to have fun with it. We don’t buy decor specifically for book club, we use what we already have on hand (including everyone’s unique copies of the book we read). @wildandfree.co has a book specifically for homeschool book clubs — I don’t have it but a friend does and it seems like a great resource! We all love reading aloud — but Yoto or Audible are also tools we all love and use as busy mamas with lots of kiddos. Any questions? Happy to answer in the comments! 🍓
Gloomy days, lighting candles, fluffing pillows… Gloomy days, lighting candles, fluffing pillows… clipping flowers from the garden while it’s still sunny and bringing joy inside. A happy raspberry dress and a heart full of slow thoughts, ruminating on what is true. I’m learning again to slow down and see the beauty in what’s right here, right now — not just in what’s coming next. Not waiting for the perfect home, or schedule, or season to feel settled or joyful or purposeful… but choosing to love the *now* — the toys scattered on the floor, the friends and family filling our home, the loud little voices, the ordinary rhythms and daily chores — and making them lovely, any which way. Because this is the life I get to live today, and I don’t want to miss it while hoping for something shinier, quieter, or more “put together.” I’m finding that contentment is built slowly, in the quiet hours… in folding blankets, opening the windows, setting out a thrifted vase of flowers from the garden. These simple tasks are the work of making a home. A beautiful life isn’t waiting in the next season — it’s here, hidden in the small, faithful things. So I’ll light the candle in the midst of the storm and call this moment sacred. I’ll find joy in the cleaning, the arranging, the preparing. I’ll be content here, even as I grow and hope and dream. And I’ll let tomorrow be tomorrow. 🕯️📖🧹🌷 Dress is part of the @christydawn Summer II Collection 🌸 the Adele in Raspberry Vine 🌿 #christydawnsteward — discount code 10MARY ☀️
We’ve done themed birthdays for a long time now We’ve done themed birthdays for a long time now (with all the decorations and details that come with them) but over the last year, we’ve felt a pull to simplify. With a big family (and the hope to grow!), we’re trying to be more intentional and sustainable in the way we celebrate. 🧺 Enter: our heirloom birthday basket. 🎁 A few thoughtful touches that get used year after year, with space for each child’s personal favorites. I’d still really love to sew and embroider a crown (and maybe something else — still deciding! I thought about a happy birthday banner, but we’ve got plenty of garland… any ideas?). We keep it simple, but full of joy: 🥞 Favorite breakfast, lunch, and dinner 🎂 Cake / cupcake / cheesecake — their choice! 🎈 A few special gifts (usually books, clothes (shoes if needed), something they may not know of but we think they’d love or need, and a few favorites from their wishlist) 🎟️ Sometimes a membership, experience, or special outing (often gifted by grandparents who are far away) Rudy didn’t feel any less celebrated without paper dinosaur garland. In fact, the kids were all so excited to see what was waiting downstairs that morning (even though they’d seen our basket for months leading up to it haha) and Nora’s already counting down to hers next month. (They’re also planning for my birthday …in November, lol.) 🪿 One of my dear friends is one of five, and her parents did the *exact same* birthday for all five of their kids every single year, and she cherishes those memories deeply. Hearing that a while back helped spark this idea for our own family. 🍧 Overall the whole point is showering each other with love. The kids make each other homemade gifts, cards, and we pray over them, and share our favorite things or memories from that year with them. We pray for the year ahead, and that God would grow and shape them into who He has for them to be. Their life is a GIFT and they’re a blessing to our family, and we adore celebrating them!!! 🥳 Do you do something similar for birthdays? Have you found ways to keep celebration simple but special? Would love to hear what birthday traditions you may hold for your family ❤️
Sweetest little views of the girls’ room 🩰🐷🎀🌷🌸 With the most precious additions — these darling new silhouettes and frames collection from @ohhoneysilhouettes 🌼 I adore having their silhouettes displayed in their room, so we can compare how they’ve grown over the years. These new frames make such a precious keepsake, that I’ll always treasure. ✨ To shop the girls’ room, just comment GIRLS and I’ll get them straight to your inbox! Feel free to comment with any questions though. Always happy to help! 💛
I have always gone “all-out” for birthdays, bu I have always gone “all-out” for birthdays, but at the end of last year I decided it would be more meaningful, sustainable, and sentimental to instead curate a birthday basket filled with heirloom pieces we can pull out for everyone’s birthdays, year after year. It was time to add in a birthday plate and I wanted to try my hand at doing it at home affordably (rather than heading for a pottery painting studio — though, I think id like to do this eventually, also)! Here’s how I did it — 🍽️ picked up a ceramic plate from my local Target 🖊️ ordered this porcelain pen per @courtney__weston’s suggestion & free handed a fun and unique design ⏰ let it set for 24 hours 🔥 baked in the oven for 30 mins at 200°F We used it for my son’s birthday this week and it was precious! I decided to hand wash it to play it safe, but so far it’s perfectly great! 🎂 If you try it out — let me know! There are tons of inspiring photos on Pinterest, too! Check out my birthday highlight for links & more! 🪿 🎈 🎉
I have a tendency to freeze up when I’m feeling I have a tendency to freeze up when I’m feeling overwhelmed and bogged down. When my list feels too long. When the burdens feel too heavy. Sometimes I think quieting the noise is necessary, though. As a people pleaser I find that if I don’t prioritize Jesus, my family, and what brings joy… everything will crumble. But if I do? Oh, then I’ll see glimmers of hope and goodness in every nook and cranny. Sometimes that looks like pausing a task to jump in the car and catch the sunset while chasing geese. 🪿Sometimes it looks like not over explaining myself when I’m feeling misunderstood, and allowing the freedom that comes with the fact that I am HIS …be enough. ☀️ One of my favorite @christydawn dresses, the Brynne, was just released in the most darling 🍓 print with 🌸 and gingham ties. It’s a sweet one! My girls look forward to wearing all my CD dresses when they’re older 🥹 code 10MARY will save you a bit 🧺 #christydawnsteward

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