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All The New Year Things

If you need to organize your daily/weekly/monthly planning, goals, finances, eating, exercise, meal-planning and more - there is a free printable for you.

Tea pot for home remedies with roses in background Looking for a more natural means of treating common ailments in your household? There are other options besides over-the-counter medicines – and you probably have many in your house already. Learn about Natural Home Remedies for Common Ailments- top tips and tricks from crunchy moms!

Are cravings giving you a hard time on Whole30? Before you give up, try these compliant emergency snacks - quick, easy, no recipe required! They can get you through those difficult moments!

30 Easy and Healthy Crockpot Recipes All whole30 Compliant - Are you looking for quick, easy, healthy dinner recipes? Crockpots are perfect for a meal just like that! Take a look at these 30 Easy and Healthy Crockpot recipes - chicken, pork, and beef - all of them Whole30 Compliant!

Has food & eating always been a struggle for you? Learning these 5 important facts about food and your body will have a huge impact on how and what you eat!

healthy and delicious 4 course dinner party menu paleo whole 30 compliant

There are so many delicious Whole 30 recipes! Here are 30 of my personal favorites - enough to get you through the whole 30 days!

Valentine’s Day

Farmhouse Valentine's Day Collage ...Are you looking to get your house all prettied up for Valentine's Day? Here are some beautiful DIY Valentine's Day Decor Projects - farmhouse style!

4 picture card collage with text - If you need some last-minute Valentine's Day cards for your child's classroom, check out these cute and clever cards! All have free printables with lots of different options - non-candy, boys, girls and more!

LOVE Ombre Sugar Cookies with Title - Anything ombre is a fan favorite these days! For a trendy sweet Valentine's Day treat, try these Ombre LOVE Sugar Cookies - with a free printable ombre "Love is Patient & Kind" gift tag to match!

Budget Friendly Farmhouse Valentine's Day Decor Ideas Collage Looking to add a little farmhouse Valentine's Day love to your home decor without breaking the bank? Take a look at these rustic, pretty, budget-friendly decorating ideas for Valentine's Day!

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Welcome to A Hundred Affections!

Hi, I'm Kate - a long-time Christian, late bloomer, former high school English teacher, current SAHM to twin toddlers (our miracle rainbow babies)! If you're a busy mom, trying to do and be the best for the people in your life, you've come to the right place! My goal is to inspire moms running the show at home in balancing faith, family, home and health! If you need encouragement, ideas, practical information, or just a kindred spirit, you'll find it here.

100affections

Well, Twin #1 bounced back from his fever, but in

I’ve been wanting to make a book paper wreath fo

Ugh. This kid. Cannot catch a break. He’s been l

Ugh. This kid. Cannot catch a break. He’s been laid up for over week with a sprained foot, & yesterday, he started developing a fever (this is after his brother just got over a 10-day stomach bug). Looks like it might be ANOTHER week out of school. Have mercy. 😩
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Last night, he woke up in the middle of the night & asked me to sing a song I’d been singing to them recently. To settle him so he could go back to sleep. .
The song is from Peg + Cat, but I changed up the words & put their names in it instead:
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“When it comes to Michael and James
No, there’s nothing we’d change
Because we love them for all that they are!”
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That's it. But they love this song. I mean, LOVE it. Ask me to sing it ALL DAY LONG. Correct me if I get the words wrong. They nod their heads to the tune & smile. They giggle & bury their heads.
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In short: they love being sung over.
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You know where I’m going with this.
Right?
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To this:
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"He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with his love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.” (Zeph. 3:17)
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I’ll be honest. I have a very hard time picturing God singing over me. With the same kind of love I have for my boys. Even at all.
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But there it is. He delights in us. He quiets us with His love. He rejoices over us with singing.
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Maybe it’s not unlike how I sing over my boys? Filled with the same delight and love I feel for them?
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When you’re the mom & the adult and you’re used to taking on the responsibility for all the loving, it can be hard to flip roles.
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But I’m saying a prayer for you and for me today that, in some way, we’d feel, we’d hear, God singing over us.
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#godslove #singingoverme #zephaniah317 #pegpluscat #boymom #twinmom #hisgracegirls #blogwithheart

One of the reasons I don’t really do New Year’

New on the blog! Free printable Valentine’s Day

I want to encourage the moms out there, especially

I want to encourage the moms out there, especially the moms in the trenches.
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This is the 1st time I’ve been up before my boys to have a cup of coffee & read my devotional in a year & a half. .
The backstory is that up until we moved in Aug. 2018, my boys were perfect sleepers. But every night since our very last night in our home in NY, I’ve slept in their room. For reason mostly due to the move, which included lots of transitions for 3|4 year olds, I went from the floor to an air mattress to a futon, which is where I’ve been sleeping since we moved into this house. LAST December.
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Judge if you like, but when sleep is on the line, you do what you need to.
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Two nights ago, it came to a head & we had an awful night. I mean, awful. Lots of waking up, not going back to bed, & Mommy lost it. Seventeen straight months of this & we had come to the end of the road.
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The next morning, Daddy called it game over: Mommy was out of the room & Daddy was handling bedtime.
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So, after giving the boys new flashlights, Daddy stayed in the room til they fell asleep & he handled it when they woke up. All things considered, while there was tears as expected, it went smoother than I thought.
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Morning rolled around, the first time waking up in my own bed in over a year, & I got up before the boys, had coffee (still hot) & read my devos.
And it made me think of something:
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Since becoming a mom, & especially since our move, my time with God has been inconsistent & spotty at best. Sometimes a 4 minute podcast a friend texted me, sometimes worship music in the kitchen while cooking dinner, sometimes a quick prayer in the shower or car, sometimes it’s just reading my Bible aloud over cartoons in the background while the boys play on the floor - trusting that the living & active Word of God is getting into all of us & doing its thing.
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I was reminded this morning how God and His Word is our daily bread. BREAD. It’s not always a feast. It’s not always a lot. It’s not always a rich & satiating experience.
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Sometimes it’s just bread. It’s enough to keep us alive. It’s enough to keep us going.
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Raining here in Tennessee today… still have one

So no church for us today… we have one still fig

So no church for us today… we have one still fighting the stomach bug, and the other could potentially have a sprained ankle (from jumping off the cat tower. 🤦‍♀️With Daddy, of course 😠).
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Instead, I’ve been working on a few projects for my Dollar Tree Vday challenge, which I'll be sharing soon (#dtvdaychallenge2020), and putting together these Valentine’s Day printables.

I was out looking for some little signs I could use on a tier tray, but everything was so big. So, per usual, I decided to just make some myself. Cheaper, too 🙌🏻.
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These will be up on the blog sometime this week for you to grab for free - just tweaking the sizing and spacing to make sure they’ll fit nicely in a 4x4” frame! (Nice and small for a tier tray or to fill in some other small area 👍). #valentinesdaydecor #valentinesdaydiy #freeprintables #wallart #tiertraydecor #blogwithheart #hisgracegirls

Do you have a favorite Bible verse? It’s hard to

Do you have a favorite Bible verse? It’s hard to narrow to just one - the ENTIRE Bible is living and active- but I was really thoughtful when I was choosing one for this print.
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I knew it was going in a prominent place in our house, one my family would walk by and see every day. My boys can't read yet, but as they grow up, I want this truth ingrained in their hearts and minds:
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There's nothing they can ever do to make God not love them. They can’t screw up so badly, do anything so awful... nothing that will ever happen to them can separate them from God’s love. It’s the one constant they can bank on and run back to forever. .
That’s the truth (among others) I want them to grow up knowing. .
God’s love will never fail them. {Or us.} #godslove #godsloveneverfails #romans83839 #love #winterdecor #showusyourdecor #blogwithheart #hisgracegirls #showusyourvelveteen #bibleverse

So I’m in a few Facebook groups for @dollartree

So I’m in a few Facebook groups for @dollartree crafts, and I’m always amazed at what they can come up w using things from DT.😳
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Since Valentine’s Day is a relatively short season as far as decorating goes, I don't really want to spend a lot of money on it. 😬
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So I'm giving myself a challenge to see what i can come up w using (mostly) DT stuff. This is my 1st haul, although lots is sold out already! 🤪
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I’ll be using the hashtag #dtvdaychallenge2020 if anyone wants to follow or play along! I’d love to see what you come up with! Stay tuned!🤣
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#dollartreefinds #dollartreevalentinesdecor #frugaldecor #cheapdecor #cheapdecorating #valentinesdaydecor #blogwithheart #hisgracegirls

Any other Sound of Music lovers? “My Favorite Th

Most of the country is sending kids back to school

Today is the day I’m officially putting away all

Happy 2020, everyone! Hope you had a great time we

Yesterday, I was taking down Christmas decorations

What you're looking at is my son laying on the flo

What you're looking at is my son laying on the floor, eating a Graham cracker. In church. And I couldn't be happier. Here’s why:
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When we moved to TN last yr, the boys weren't even 3 ½ yet, & church was a nightmare. They wouldnt come into the sanctuary, even for the singing, without screaming. So, my husband or I would try to either keep them quiet (ha!) & corralled in the back hallway. If it got real bad, we just let them play in their classroom.
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When we’d try to leave them in kinderchurch, it was drama & screaming & chasing us when we left...probably a good 6 months of this. 😩
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We finally got kinderchurch (mostly) sorted out but they still wouldn't come in for the singing. Either me or my husband had to miss it every week.
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Well, for Christmas, our pastor asked the boys if they'd pull the big lever to light all the Christmas trees during the Hanging of the Greens service.
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So that Sunday, we came early for a walk through. After, we took a seat close to the wall, near the stage. As the worship team started to play, I waited for the drama to start...But the boys were FINE!! What?!?
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I'm not sure if it was bc we were seated before it started (we’re usually late🤷🏻‍♀️), but they were great through the singing- AND the service, even though I was totally unprepared- no snacks, no toys, nothing. Just some pens and offering envelopes (#momfail). .
They were fidgety for sure, but no tantrums, no outbursts. And, they did great when they went on stage in front of all those people to pull the lever. Who were these kids?!?
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Since, not wanting to mess w the magic formula, we get to church before the singing starts, sit in our new seats. I'm ready now w snacks, quiet toys & my bag of tricks.
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I can now actually be in church for the singing AND the message. That may not sound like much, but moms who've been there will totally get it.
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So my son laying on the carpet w a Graham cracker? Totally ok w it. I'm in church. HE’S in church. With me.
Am I being judged? I don't think so. Maybe. But I don't care. WE ARE IN CHURCH. Together.
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Jesus Himself said, “Let the children come to me, don't stop them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these."

It’s funny - when you do work that’s seasonal

It’s funny - when you do work that’s seasonal- blogging, retail, small business – you’re always about two months ahead, planning for the next big season.
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I was in Hobby Lobby the week before Christmas, & the spring stuff was out. It wasn’t even the 1st day of WINTER yet! Kroger had Valentine’s Day stuff out on Christmas Eve. And this morning I was working on Valentine’s Day content.
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I get it - you need to be ahead of the curve. But it can be hard to live in the present moment, when you’re always looking ahead.
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However, about noon or so, it hit me that, on this last weekend of the DECADE, when it was almost 70° outside, the last thing I wanted to be doing was thinking about Valentine’s Day 2 months from now. And missing today.
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So I grabbed my boys, went to Clinton to get a cookie & a bag of Cheetos @e.clairescoffeehouse & explore the town. We went to the playground after, enjoyed the sun, got Happy Meals, & drove around looking at Christmas lights. The boys were great & are growing into some fantastic adventure buddies. 😊
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When this decade started, I was 3 months away from getting married. Ten yrs later, I have the joy of spending a carefree day with my twin boys, 2 of my favorite human beings on the planet. Fully present.
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And that’s how I want to go into this next decade: fully present, aware of the moment I’m in, grateful to God for every gift He’s been so kind to give me, and letting Him set the pace for days & year (& years) ahead.
#presentmoment #twinboys #twinbrothers #idtwins #boymom #twinmom #goodbye2019 #historicclintontn #easttennessee #hisgracegirls #blogwithheart

#sponsored I usually do some kind of clean eating

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I usually do some kind of clean eating or Whole30 reset in January or detox from the sugar overload, but I'm not sure I can wait. I just feel horrible when I eat so much sugar ☹️😩.
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So today’s breakfast are these better-for-you dark chocolate and coconut frozen yogurt granola cups. I made these with honey vanilla @greekgodsyogurt Greek yogurt and they are filling and delicious! And you can get it @walmart .
If you can’t wait to January 1 to reset, give these a try! Recipe on the blog, @100affections
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#betterforyou #greekgodsyogurt #betterchoices #yogurtcups #granolacups #greekgodsnewyear #hisgracegirls #blogwithheart

We don't have many Christmas traditions (yet), but

We don't have many Christmas traditions (yet), but a birthday cake for Jesus (well, pie this year🤷🏻‍♀️) is one of our favorites. Happy birthday, Jesus!
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#happybirthdayjesus #christmas #birthdaypie #hisgracegirls #blogwithheart

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