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Highs and Lows {Weekly Prayer Request}

This year has been full of highs and lows for me. The past couple of weeks seem to have had the most. Things will be going great and then not so much. There are days when it seems like hubby and I are more friends than anything else.

Kmart & Sears Free In-Store Pickup!

Disclosure: Presented by Mami Innovative Media, this is a sponsored post on behalf of Sears and Kmart. All opinions expressed here are my own. The holidays seem to be the busiest time of the year. Between shopping, untangling lights, wrapping (or unwrapping) and baking dozens of cookies, your regular life doesn’t press pause. You can only read so many…

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Faith From A Children’s Movie

Last night we were watching The Polar Express. It has become a new holiday favorite and I like it more than some of the other newer holidays shows.

Goodwill Snapguide on How to Throw a Festive Sweater Holiday Party

Check out this wonderful Snapguide from Goodwill on How to Throw a Festive Sweater Holiday Party! Also remeber that Goodwill also has a really cool Donation Impact Calculator that allows you to see how many hours of job training your donations may create. Check out How to Throw a Festive Sweater Holiday Party by Goodwill…

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Meet the Jiménez Family #LaFamiliadeHoy

Disclosure: This is a sponsored campaign with Johnson & Johnson and Latina Bloggers Connect. However all opinions are 100% my own. Johnson & Johnson and Univision have launched a campaign to find an authentic, modern, and active family to become  La Familia de Hoy (Family of Today.)  They have three finalist but I want to share with…

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Advent Ideas

This year I have been searching for new ways to countdown the advent. After some searching on Pinterest I discovered a couple if great ways. I love this idea of books wrapped and placed in a late bucket. The kids pick a book each night, open it and that is the book that is read.

Spanish Word of the Week {Let’s Start}

  Today’s word is: iniciar ee-nee-syarr’ (verb)which menas to start, to initiate, to begin, to originate. Lets’ see it used in some examples:

Tis The Season {Weekly Prayer Request}

  It is the season of giving and celebrating the birth if our Lord. It is also the season of cutting each other off while driving, diving someone out if the way, and a million other thoughtless, careless acts.

Thankful

This Thanksgiving as we all sit down to enjoy our meals and offer thanks what will you be thankful for?