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162: 3 Lessons Learned from a Year of No Shopping // Miranda Anderson of Live Free Creative
I live in a tiny town in Idaho where we have no mall, no Costco, and no Target, so last year in December, I decided to make the 2.5 hour drive to our closest big city, Boise, in order to do some Christmas shopping. While I was there, I got some great gifts for loved…
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161: Cleaning & Organization Strategies for the Naturally-Messy Mom // Candi Kidd
Are you thinking about New Year’s resolutions and getting organized in the coming year, after the chaos of the holidays? I am too! And honestly, this doesn’t come very naturally to me! Since I was a little girl, I have left a “wake” behind me everywhere I go–cupboards left open, shoes kicked off in the…
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160: 3 Tools for Growth for Middle School Girls (and their moms!) // Becky Fife, Katie Parker, Allie Callister
This past week, I took a walk down memory lane and revisited my middle school journal. Let me just tell you…it’s something. I was texting my sisters screenshots of various dramatic entries and we got a good laugh. Every other day I had an angsty entry about my parents “not understanding me” or “being so…
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159: Connecting Spiritually When You Don’t Have Extra Time // Darla Trendler of Spiritually Minded Women
Throughout my life, my faith in God has always been absolutely central to my sense of identity and peace and purpose. But to be perfectly honest, in the three years since I started 3 in 30, my relationship with Him has felt more and more distant because I’ve been busier than I’ve ever been in…
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158: Creating Golden Moments with Teenagers // Saren Eyre Loosli of Power of Families
Many people have asked me, “Is the Flecks of Gold Journal good for moms of older children and teenagers too?” YES! This journal is for any mom who wants to focus on the JOY in her daily and relationships, no matter how old her children are! Which is why I’m so excited to be talking…
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157: How (and Why) to Journal, Even If You’re Not a Journaler! // Kim Christenson of Promptly Journals
It is no secret that I love to journal. If you are part of the 3 in 30 community on Instagram, then you might have seen a photo I posted recently of me with a tower of storage bins stacked almost as tall as I am…and every single one of them is filled with journals!…
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156: Flecks of Gold: The Key to Finding Joy as a Mother, even in Hard Times
My friends, today is the day! The Flecks of Gold journal is here, and I am frankly giddy with excitement because I know this journal will transform your outlook on motherhood and help you see the joy and beauty in your daily life. I want every single mother in the 3 in 30 community to…
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155: Talking About Suicide: Insights from a Daughter Left Behind // Sarah Grotenhuis
This time of year is heavy for me because it was three years ago in November that we lost my son’s birth-mother Katie to suicide. Which is why I feel it’s so important to know how to talk about suicide. Every year in November, I plan to do something to commemorate Katie in some way–an…
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154: How to Teach Your Teen to Use Social Media Safely // Chelsea Brown of Digital Mom Talk
As parents, we often feel a lot of fear around the topics of social media and smartphones for our children. For that reason, our instinct may be to pull away from it altogether or do our best to forbid our kids from using it. But today’s guest, who is a computer and technology expert, has…
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153: How to Actually Hear Your Spouse // Yvette and Glen Henry
I’m so excited to feature Yvette and Glen Henry today. When my husband Ryan and I first got married, I had no idea how difficult it would be to just talk to each other sometimes. When we were dating, I could pour my heart out to him with ease, but almost 15 years of marriage…
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