The Importance of Praying with your Spouse

June is the month of weddings and I love it! I’ve always been a sucker for romance, but it gets especially bad during this time of year when we get to join in the celebrations of so many of our friends as they tie the knot. In fact, just last weekend we witnessed a couple […]

The “Get Through” Days

Today I want to share a bit of wisdom learned from my Mom. I have the tendency to expect a lot of myself. I would commit to many things and expect to exceed at all of them. If a job isn’t done perfect, it’s not ready to be finished, was always my line of thinking. […]

5 Ways to Embrace Imperfection

Something has become blatantly obvious to me lately and that is the irony of this blog’s name: Charming Imperfections. One would think by reading that title and description below it that I’m fine with things being less than excellent and don’t mind not having things together all the time. This couldn’t be further from the […]

Prepare for Christmas

Prepare for Christmas. With only three days left, if you’re like most, you’ve probably already done most, if not all, of your preparation for Christmas. Your lights are hung and decorations set out (and have been since the Saturday after Thanksgiving), you’ve bought and made the gifts you’re going to give and wrapped them nicely […]

God Loves Mommies

God loves mommies. I haven’t been at this whole parenting thing for very long. Eleven months hardly lends enough experience to talk about when there are those who have dedicated decades of their lives to raising the next generation. Yet these months have been the most priority changing months of my life. I’ve learned so much raising Jordan […]