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Letting someone know you care doesn’t have to cost anything but it could literally change the entire trajectory of their day. Let’s spread some love today! Tell me below one thing you will do today to brighten another person’s day! I’d love to hear all your amazing ideas! https://www.katymcholm.com/new-blog/rejoice-in-the-everyday-mundane monthly 0.5 2021-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec82f2b5ab5c07d71944e9e/1620098812459-L2C4AAZE6J90YGYDWKMQ/IMG_3379.jpg Blog - Rejoice in the Everyday Mundane However, we also need the big picture, zoomed-out focus of life at large. How this pandemic is literally affecting EVERYONE - no one will go untouched, everyone is dealing with change in big and small ways, all of us are grieving different things and even in all that, the world is still beautiful and people are kind. 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I needed the quiet and calm this view offered - it was a busy and full weekend and we are dealing with disappointed hearts with some choices that are being made in our family. God’s love, grace and mercy never fail and He isn’t done writing any of our stories. So I will be patient and lean into His timing and watch His plan unfold for our family, especially for our kids! Monday’s are not my favorite, as a rule, but I am looking forward to a reset today and the quiet it will bring! https://www.katymcholm.com/new-blog/one-little-apple monthly 0.5 2021-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec82f2b5ab5c07d71944e9e/1620097639069-LQ6HAF7L03ZLRKS1QBED/IMG_0078.jpg Blog - One Little Apple I was outside watering this morning and realized that the apple is still growing and it made my heart happy! This is the only apple to be produced as of yet on our apple trees but I know that it takes, on average, 4-5 years for apple trees to begin to produce. 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This has been a season of hard conversations and deep joy. Lastly, there has been one other precious gift that happened recently. I got a job! My sweet friend Jenni, that owns Pittsburgh Candle Works, asked me if I would be her wholesale manager. I work from home, with flexible hours and a fabulous boss and I don't have to give up my first priorities! The answer to my question from yesterday as to who hires someone like me with my requirements for a job was found in God's providential timing and Jenni! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec82f2b5ab5c07d71944e9e/1620085728222-MYYV6OHI6B702QT1TLG3/IMG_0063.jpg Blog - Taking Stock Who even hires for someone like that? And why would I want to work for them away from home anyway? I decided that blogging and working online through Instagram and FaceBook was the answer. I took classes on both and jumped in feet first! I have loved getting to know so many of you and am blessed to call some of you my "in real life" friends as well! 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I am a woman who loves God and is deeply committed to living my life in a manner worthy of the calling He has for me (Ephesians 4:1-3). I love my husband and my 6 kids and they are my primary ministry as the keeper of our home (Titus 2:5). My endeavor here is to take what I have learned in life and share that with you as I walk alongside you (Titus 2:3-5). I greatly desire to see women “rooted and built up” in Jesus and “established in the faith” as we “abound in thanksgiving” (Colossians 2:6-7). I hope to encourage women to seek the Lord through life in homemaking, marriage, motherhood, and sisterhood. I want to teach by example how to make a house a home and be hospitable with ease and grace (Romans 12:13, Hebrews 13:2, 1 Peter 4:9). I do not pretend to have it all together, I believe transparency is imperative, and I am thankful for the mercy and grace so freely bestowed upon me by God. 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