Lifestyle
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Catching Up with the Doyles
In my last post, I promised a life update. A lot has changed for our family in the last couple of months! If you’re mostly here for book reviews or homeschooling posts, this might not interest you as much. If that’s you, normal content is coming soon! If you’re interested in hearing about what our little family is up to, read on! The biggest news is that we moved! In case you didn’t know, we were living in Southern Illinois. In terms of ministry, we were doing Bible studies with college students in our home. We lived there for 3 years and absolutely loved every moment of it. Peter was working…
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32 Birthday Goals
Last month I turned 32. It’s interesting to think about the fact that I’m (at least) already a third of the way through my life. In fact, it’s rather sobering. I was reflecting on whether or not I’d want my life to continue on the same trajectory. There are things I’d like to change going forward and things I would never want to change. I stumbled across this video from Chantel over at An Intentional Life. I thought it was a brilliant idea to set some birthday goals for myself. It’s almost like New Years Resolutions, only “goal” sounds less intimidating than “resolution.” In addition, when you’re making so many goals,…
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My Honest Review of 10 Rounds
The majority of my blog posts have been about homeschooling or plant based eating. These topics are near and dear to my heart, especially since they are both huge parts of my life. Another thing I love is working out! I’m not a huge fan of the gym (mostly because I’m self conscious and prefer privacy while working out). About five years ago, I discovered Beachbody. Peter and I ordered the DVDs for 21 Day Fix and absolutely loved it! I’ve loved home works and Beachbody ever since. Nowadays, Beachbody releases all of their workouts on a platform they have called Beachbody on Demand (or BOD). I’ve heard it described…
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Our Favorite Christmas Books
In case you didn’t know, we love to read. Claire has always loved being read to, even as a baby. I remember her as a 14 month old, sitting and looking at books by herself for 30 minutes at a time. Clearly, I passed on my bookworm tendencies. Last week, I shared about some of our Christmas traditions and ways we are making Christmas special this year (you can read more about that here). One of the things I mentioned was that we were reading Christmas books every day. Some of them were ones we’ve read before, but a lot of them were new to us this year. I thought I…
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Ways Our Family Makes Christmastime Special
Ah, Christmastime. If you’re a parent, you’re probably always looking for ways to make this season even more magical and special. In the past, our family has always done advent calendars. We began this tradition when Claire was two years old. I made an advent calendar to hang on the wall and each day had a Christmas activity and a Scripture to read. Fast forward a few years to 2017. I hung up the advent calendar, but we rarely opened the envelopes. Last Christmas was a very stressful season for our family, so that was probably part of the issue, but I also think it was difficult to maintain a…
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Our Favorite Christmas Books
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Moving Tips & Tricks
Hey, there. Tiffany Doyle, professional mover, nice to meet ya. Just kidding. I’m not technically a professional mover, but I might as well be. I’ve moved 16 times in my life (7 times since Peter and I have been married). I’ve picked up quite a few tips and tricks along the way. If you’re moving anytime soon or know someone who is, hopefully my plethora of moving wisdom will be of some help. Packing Tips A color coded system I have done this for my last 3 moves and it is the only way to go. You can buy colored tabs to put on all the individual boxes, but I…
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What Love Looks Like
Ten years. A whole decade. A third of my life. That’s how long Peter and I have been married. At first it seemed easy to dismiss. After all, I know a lot of people who have been married for much longer than I have. But then I look at society around me and realize that many marriages don’t make it to the 10 year mark, especially for people who marry so young (I was 19 and Peter was 20). I have jokingly said that once I hit the ten year mark, I can confidently say that I will know half of one thing about marriage. There’s some truth to that…
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Different Homeschool Styles Explained
When you’re first beginning to research homeschooling, it can be intimidating. Even though I grew up being homeschooled, there was so much I didn’t know – and plenty of things I didn’t even know that I didn’t know. When I started looking into kindergarten curriculum, I thought it would be as simple as preschool had been. But I quickly found that there were a lot more options than I could’ve imagined. It made my head spin. So much of it was classified in certain “homeschooling styles.” There were articles, quizzes and links saying things like “What’s Your Homeschool Style?” or “Finding Our Homeschool Style” and the like. It was all…
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When We Don’t Recognize Jesus
Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land. He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he went out to them, walking on the lake. — Mark 6:45-48 Jesus walking on the water. This is a very well known Bible story. In fact, many people who haven’t read the Bible have heard some sort of “water walking” reference.…
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Why I Made the Switch to Plant Based Eating
Hey, all! Today I’ll be sharing some of my very personal (and probably semi-lengthy!) journey to health with you. This is a subject that I’m still a little hesitant to write about, both because I feel like there can be a lot of judgment surrounding the way we eat and I have only recently found my footing and become more comfortable sharing. Let me preface this post with two statements. First of all, the choices I’ve made have been for my own personal health. The benefits I have found may not be true in your experience and that’s okay – no judgment from me whatsoever! I’m sharing what worked for…
