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4 Powerful Lessons From My Very First Women’s Retreat

2015-10-10 aprilmomoffour answered prayer, Bible, blessings, rest, vacation

This weekend I have ridden a horse, eaten delicious food cooked by other people, and listened to an inspiring speaker, Denise Cunningham. I have grown closer to God and closer to other ladies from my church. Guess what! Our speaker this weekend has a blog too! I’ll give you a link at the bottom of this post. First, you have to read mine. 😉 This retreat was at Wolf Mountain, near Sacramento, California. I want to share a few lessons […]

Will Nap Anywhere

2015-01-11 aprilmomoffour babies, family, parenting, photography, pictures, rest

There are many things my beautiful little boys do well. Yes, I am sorry. I said beautiful. They are!! Handsome, if it makes you feel better, but my goodness, they look like sleeping angels to me. This is one of the things we do with FLARE. That’s right. We NAP. We are seriously great nappers. I remember one time, in Sunday school, our class was debating rest on Sundays. Who would debate that? Seriously. Don’t just agree to rest, embrace […]

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13 comments babies, naps, parenting, rest, sleep, toddlers

The Year of Getting Organized

2014-03-22 aprilmomoffour 4 kids, baby milestones, big family life, birthday, books, Caleb, Daniel, de-cluttering, decluttering, goals, little boys, nap, New Year's goals, organizing, pictures, rest, snow, The Great Clean Out, toddlers, toys

I’ve written gobs of blog posts where I’m really bad about never going back and letting you know how that all turned out. This is my goal for tonight: lots of updates!! Update #1: The Great Clean Out inspired by reading Money Saving Mom‘s book: It’s sort of an odd time to suddenly be all about organizing my house: we are moving in JUNE. However, we are drowning in TMS–too much stuff–so I have been plugging away at “The […]

I love Sundays!

2013-10-13 aprilmomoffour little boys, pictures, rest

I am very excited to have learned a new skill! Digital photo labeling! I asked our friend Jamie, who blogs at joshandjamie.com, and she said she uses Picasa. She said she can do it “real quick.” I’m not so sure I was “real quick”, but I’m excited to finally know how to do this!! I love Sundays!!! Things are almost perfect here right now. Alan is passed out beside me, getting a Sunday afternoon nap, John David […]