Last week my husband and I were planning our next date night. We believe it is incredibly important to set aside time each month (at least) to spend time with JUST each other. No kids or other family ...
Married With Children
25 Stellar Ways to Connect with Your Partner During Tougher Moments
"Wait? You didn't tell me that!" my husband said to me one morning when he overheard our seven-year-old ask me about speaking at a conference this coming fall. "I didn't?"And that was that. The end ...
When only ONE of you wants another baby
When only one of you wants another baby, it can make things... hard. Marriage is already hard enough, trying to find time to be together and manage the day to day life. The day after we had our ...
Clean House = Happy Wife & Mom
The other day, I was talking to my friend, on the phone, when I said "Well, I better run. I have to clean the house because it is a mess!" In which she replied, "Mine needs to be cleaned, too, but ...
14 Ways to Be an Intentionally Specific Wife (21 day marriage challenge)
Be Intentionally Specific To be an intentional wife means that you deliberately do things for a purpose. It means you do not just wash dishes because they are there; rather, you wash ...
Keeping marriage a priority while raising a family
Running errands, school drop off and pick up, sports practice, homework, dinners, packing lunches... all of the things that become routine when you have kids. Date night? That usually goes out the ...
How to Find Time to Date Your Spouse
You know that connecting as a couple is important but it can be hard to find time to date your spouse. With work, household responsibilities and a family to take care of, finding time to date your ...
Grow your marriage after kids
It is important to continue to grow your marriage after having children. It is important to work on yoru marriage because when your children move away, you are left with the person that you started ...
Practical Advice to make a marriage last
We get all sorts of marriage advice, don't we? What about the practical things... that's what really makes a marriage last. Yes, fresh flowers on a Tuesday will certainly help, but it's not what a ...
Perfect Mother, Perfect Wife, Perfect Children, Perfect Family
Regan Long is a mom to four, a teacher, photographer, Beachbody coach and blogger. She strives for perfection in marriage and motherhood and proudly shares that. Take it away, ...
Does Being a Good Partner Make You a Better Mother?
Does Being a Good Partner Make You a Better Mother? What do you think? Motherhood means being superhuman at times. We perform the circus act that only a mother could handle of juggling multiple ...
Keeping the passion after having kids
Today's post was written by Regan Long, mother, wife and teacher. The butterflies in your stomach, the romance, staying up all night talking & laughing, the world begins and ends with the two ...
Finding time to date your husband
Remember, the point of dating your husband is to spend time together and connect. Don’t ever let a lack of funds keep you from spending time together. I know for my husband and I, dates are a very ...
How to Not Lose Yourself in Marriage
I never thought I'd have identity issues even in the face of parenting and marriage. I know, I know. I speak the truth, though: I never thought I would lose myself in marriage. The word is out and ...
3 things to do for your spouse (secretly)
Today, I want you to try doing three things for your spouse, without telling them what you are doing: 1. Give out three compliments (or say Thank You for 3 things): Here are a few examples: 1). ...
15 things you can do to make your spouse smile
Being intentional can mean a lot to your spouse. It goes a long way and doesn't go un-noticed. Here are 15 ideas to be intentional with your spouse: Fill up their gas tank. Stop for ...
The secret to getting through stressful times in marriage
My friend, Kristen, was fed up. Her husband's job was taking him away from home more and more. He was gone Monday through Friday and had even contemplated moving to the city to be closer to work. ...
The Fighter Pilot and His Lady ~ help for a military family
Today, author of “The Fighter Pilot and His Lady” shares some of the difficulties that military families face. I hope that you find it truly helpful. “It took a special woman to be a ...
5 Ways to Keep Your Marriage Spicy
Marriage with 7 kids, 5 of them adopted with special needs hasn't been what I would call easy. In fact, there have been entire years where it was harder than hard. There were times when it was only ...