Here are a few of my favorites…

“rise & shine & give God the glory, glory…”
{sorry, my childhood church days just came back to me!}

no better reminder than to live a life free of worry.

Don’t wait, snag your favorites at Livy Love! And be sure to enter the code!

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Fuzel – I found out about this app at the SNAP conference and I’m hooked. It is the best collage app out there that I’ve seen. You can round the inside corners, while having the outside corners still pointy – which I love! There are different backgrounds, you can add labels and other fun things. I use this almost daily!

GardenMinder – I’m looking forward to using this app a lot this summer. I haven’t done much, but you can plan your garden, set reminders, and learn about specific plants. You can even ask a gardener and they’ll respond within 24 hours. This app makes me excited to move and jump start my first garden this summer.

A Beautiful Mess – I’m sure most of you have heard of this already because it launched this week and BLEW UP. It’s such a fun app and well worth the small cost to download. You can add fun text, doodles & frames around your pictures or pick a neat background like the one above. Super fun and makes your pictures a little bit funky!

My Fitness Pal – I have to admit, I used to use My Fitness Pal daily but have fallen away. This app is amazing. You can put in your exercise activity and it’ll figure the calories for you – then you enter your foods (they have a huge database or use the barcode scanner) and it tracks for you. You WILL lose weight with this app.

Okay, tell me – what are your favorites??

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The theme was The Apron Movement. During their interview part of the program they described how they came up with that. One of the ladies stated that she felt like the feminist movement really changed the way society looks at women (some good, some bad). There used to be a time where you’d wear an apron so that if company came over (or your husband came home from work) that you’d take off the apron and still look your best. I know not everyone agrees with this (heck, sometimes I’m already in my jammies when my hubby comes home), but they wanted to revisit our thoughts on motherhood, being a wife and being a Proverbs 31 woman. Biblically being a servant, giving to others and what true beauty is.

The ladies were asked various questions like if they still date their husbands after 30 years of marriage and who they most looked up to as a woman in their life. It really made me consider how I’m leading my children and teaching them – especially Big E as a future woman of God. I need to be teaching her how to be a Proverbs 31 woman: being energetic and strong, a hard worker, helping the poor and serving her family. My favorite quote from the luncheon is one that I emailed to myself so I wouldn’t forget it. She talked about how when she told one of her husband’s colleagues that she was a stay at home mom, he said “I’m so sorry.” Her response?

Amen, sister. Amen. Whether you’re a stay at home mom, work at home mom, or a mom who works outside the home the answer is still the same. The “product” that you make at home is one that will change the world. One that will bring others to a loving relationship with Christ. How are you cultivating that? It’s time for me to reevaluate.

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It’s hard to believe it’s this time of the year again. Time for field day and parties and appreciation gifts. Teachers do so much for their students. They love on them. Teach them. Inspire them. Protect them. I now have four teacher appreciation items in the shop – including a key chain that is perfect for a male teacher! You can see all of the teacher appreciation items here.

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But it wasn’t all peaches and cream. I woke up on Sunday morning with an expectation of what my day would look like. When it didn’t start out that way, it set my mood for the whole day which ended up being very unfortunate. Compounded with the fact that I had stayed up too late the past three nights meant that at an innocent comment from Big E I broke down into tears – on Mother’s Day. And then I felt like an idiot, because of my unmet and unwarranted (and unexplained) expectations I lost it.

Ann Voskamp said, “What messes our life up most — is the expectation of what our life is supposed to look like.” I resolved this weekend to not live on expectation. I should have no expectations of others, just like they shouldn’t have any of me. Of course there are the commands that God has given us and we want to live out Matthew 7:12, “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you.”

I don’t want to live life expecting things from people and then it ruining my day because those expectations are unmet. It’s not fair for me to put that upon people. It’s not fair to my husband to make him feel bad on Mother’s Day because I didn’t get breakfast in bed. He doesn’t know how to cook…how dare I think that on Mother’s Day he’d all of a sudden know how to make me french toast (or whatever it might be). After a few good nights of sleep, now I just feel silly. I know my family loves me as much as I love them (if not more).

This morning I will be counting my blessings, being grateful for the love that my family has shown me not just on Mother’s Day but EVERY day. God is good.

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