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FREE Valentine’s Coloring Pages for Kids!

It’s February and time for some FREE Valentine’s Coloring Pages for Kids! My children love to do crafts and making their own Valentine’s is one of their favorite things. I thought you might enjoy these FREE printable Valentine’s for your kids to color on their own.

FREE Valentine's Coloring Pages for Kids!

FREE Valentine’s Coloring Pages for Kids

Valentine’s Day will be here before we know it, which means the last-minute card and candy dash is starting. I can’t help with the candy, but I do have a free printable for you—Valentine’s cards your kids can color in and give to their friends and classmates. Plus, each card has a memory verse about God’s love on it, so your children will be spreading Good News to their peers.

FREE Valentine's Coloring Pages

Click here to download the FREE Valentine’s Coloring Pages for Kids!

 

Lead Your Family in Love

FREE Valentine's coloring pages

Does your family need a five-star general at the helm? A psychologist? A referee? Ken Blanchard, the best-selling co-author of The One Minute Manager, points to a better role model: the Son of God. Joined by veteran parents and authors Phil Hodges and Tricia Goyer, Blanchard shows how every family member benefits when parents take the reins as servant-leaders. Moms and dads will see themselves in a whole new light―as life-changers who get their example, strength, and joy from following Jesus. This user-friendly book’s practical principles and personal stories mark the path to a truly Christ-centered family. One where integrity, love, grace, self-sacrifice, and forgiveness make all the difference.

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Is Mom in need of a night out for Valentine’s Day?

Moms Night Out

All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful, grown-up evening of dinner and conversation . . . a long-needed moms’ night out. But in order to enjoy high heels, adult conversation and food not served in a bag, they need their husbands to watch the kids for a few hours. What could go wrong?

Chronicling one night out gone awry, join three harried moms, their husbands, a sister-in-law with a misplaced baby, a tattoo parlor owner, a motorcycle gang, and a bewildered cabbie as they learn to embrace the beautiful mess called parenting. This book spotlights the unfulfilled expectations and serial self-doubts many moms feel. Then reassures us that the key is raising kids in a loving home. Mom’s Night Out is an endearing, true-to-life comedy.

The MOMS’ NIGHT OUT film features Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy), Sean Astin (THE LORD OF THE RINGS), Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond, The Middle), Alex Kendrick (COURAGEOUS), Robert Amaya (COURAGEOUS), Andrea Logan White (REVELATION ROAD), Kevin Downes (COURAGEOUS), and platinum-selling country recording artist Trace Adkins (THE LINCOLN LAWYER).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Simple Ways to Fill Your Home with Love

Let’s talk about how we can have a lifegiving home. Be encouraged by these simple ways to fill your home with love…

 

As a homeschooling mom, I’ve had kids at home for 30+ years. This means noisy days, busy days, and these-kids-are-giving-me-a-headache days.

With our adopted little ones I’m looking at another 8 years of homeschooling and having kids at home. Does that seem overwhelming? It would have been if I hadn’t discovered something amazing: JOY!

Over the last year, God has been speaking to my heart and encouraging me to find joy in everyday living.

Joy even though the laundry is piled high.
Joy even though the kids are cranky.
Joy when work deadlines press.
Joy when I have a headache, when my feet hurt, and when I just want a nap. (Which happens often!)

Easier said than done, right? Each day offers new challenges and struggles to find and keep joy alive in your household. It’s something I’m continually challenged with being a wife and mother and why I’m so excited for the release of The Lifegiving Home by Sally and Sarah Clarkson.

A mother and daughter writing team, Sally and Sarah share their story and advice on how to make your home more than 4 walls and a roof … a haven of warmth, rest, and joy … the one place where you and your family can’t wait to be. Every day of your family’s life can be as special and important to you as it already is to God.

The home I raise my children in needs be one overflowing with love, grace, forgiveness, peace, and joy. This kind of home doesn’t just happen magically. It needs to be a daily choice to model and nurture a lifegiving home. I LOVE Sally’s prayer for her children and it is my hope as well:

Give foundations of strength and inspiration to these precious ones, but give them wings as well. Prepare them to take risks, to live by faith, so that they can take the messages and cherished values they learned at home and share them with a hurting world. And so our home became a launching pad, a place of blessing, as we sent our beloved children on their way—hopefully strong, whole, and secure in the ideals, faith, and values that truly matter.

What makes The Lifegiving Home so unique is how Sally and Sarah walk through each month of the year and share specific ways you can celebrate togetherness and create special memories for your children. For February, Sally focuses on giving love. From homemade treats to hand-picked flowers, look for extra-special ways to pour love on those in your household.

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Here are a few ways you can love on your family this month:

  • Write a special note for each member of your family and hides them in their lunches
  • Plan a craft night and make keepsakes you’ll cherish for years to come
  • Surprise your family members with breakfast in bed
  • Have everyone write down one thing you do that makes them feel extra-special. Then do it!
  • Have a date night with each kid and do something they love
  • Spend a Saturday baking cookies and treats together and deliver them to loved ones
  • Dedicate a night each week to pray together as a family
  • Use the concordance in your Bible to look up verses about God’s love. Read a verse or two each day before dinner.

What ways will you foster a lifegiving home this month?

Home should be the very best place to ever be. #LifeGivingHomeBook

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In Love | Ephesians 4:2

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Saturday Scripture

 

Ephesians 4:2

 

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

 

Prayer

Father God, thank you for this day to celebrate the love of our family and friends. I am so grateful to know you and experience your perfect, limitless love. Help me love those around me better, with humility and gentleness and patience.

Be humble, gentle, patient & bear with others in love. Ephesians 4:2  #truelove @TriciaGoyer

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How can you love those around you today?

 

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