Day Two :: Create a Holiday Notebook
Keeping it simple & practical, and starting early = holiday organization. Buy a brand-new notebook (bonus points if it has a Christmas cover!) I always grab a cute one from the dollar bins at the craft store. Label it and make this your go-to place for storing...
Day One :: Pray Over Your Season
We’re starting simple, at the very best kind of beginning. Start with your heart in the right place – start in prayer. Don’t enter battle unarmed, the kitchen without ingredients, the holiday season (or any busy season) without a heart open to Him....
31 Days To a Less-Stress Holiday Season!
I have this thing for Christmas. Growing up, my mom always made it a magical time for us. There were cookies, a grand tree decorated to the hilt with heirlooms and popsicle stick ornaments, bedtime readings of the Polar Express and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The...
31 Week Bumpdate!
Yeow. Single digits, people – SINGLE DIGITS until we meet this baby. This baby, our grace/bonus/surprise/gift baby that I still can’t even believe is coming. The symptoms list is getting longer, the days are getting shorter, and we’re in the single...
On My Top 5 Non-Pumpkin Spice Fall Favorites
It’s the first day of autumn! While you know I love me some good pumpkin spice everything, I deeply adore parts of autumn that have nothing to do with pumpkins. Or boots, or sweaters, or even the crisp air. For real. Here are a few of my non-pumpkin spice fall...On Claiming Calm in Our Everyday
I may be a bit of a summertime Scrooge, but it feels like my family got slighted a bit this year with all the house craziness and pregnant mama chaos. I missed moments, entire days wiped out by fluster. My husband and I went on exactly two dates, and there was no...
On the ‘More’ My Heart Needs
I wrote recently about being a megaphone, about living in my sweet spot, about the job that has my hands and heart. Here’s what I didn’t share: sometimes it’s hard to watch others rise while you fall. Over the past year especially, I’ve...An Invitation to Be Beautiful
. . . This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful . . . We are invited, each of us, to be beautiful. To see and seek beauty in our everyday, in each other. And so our charge is not how to become more beautiful, but to ask instead: how can I add to the beauty? Does...
On Being a Megaphone
I’ve written here at Girl with Blog for nearly 8 years. I’ve written an ebook and edited/curated another. I’ve submitted words to publishers, websites and blogs. I work with words. I steep in words. I wrestle words into 140 characters. I think...Meet Anna
Anna E. Rendell: Author, latte lover. Content Marketing Manager at (in)courage by DaySpring. Wife of Jared and mom of four littles. Telling real stories from real life, and encouraging you to find the extra in your ordinary.
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The Christmas Couch!
