If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. Plan, prepare, and lessify! What fills your tank? If you know yourself, don’t do what makes you cranky when shopping or getting ready for Christmas.

Make your celebrations less complicated so that you don’t tire of celebrating the holidays. The best way is to ‘check in with the Father,’ who sent His Son to save us.

Prepare your heart and savor this time of Thanksgiving. The holidays run together in our culture, so be intentional and organized about taking the time to give thanks.

Donna’s goal is to help women in their roles as mother, wife, homemaker, and woman of God. Her advice on mothering is biblically based. She gives tips on communicating with your children, using ‘the language of choice.’

Model for your children an authentic Christian life. Teach truth to them. Teach them to want to learn what the Bible teaches us about how to live our lives. Offer opportunities for character development and learning discipline. *Be a mother who is WILLING to have your children with you ALL of the time.

Parenting is the most sacrificial role you will ever have. If you came from a dysfunctional family, you can create a new ‘cycle’ by living in submission to God according to His word. Colossians 3:12-20 shows us how to do this.

In Mark 3: 31-35, Jesus tells us that our brothers and sisters who are believers, who do the will of God, are our family.

Calvary love is the kind that forgets about self. This is how God wants us to love and honor our husbands, which, in turn, honors God. Donna and Elisabeth talk about the touchy subject of submission.

Instead of falling apart, Elisabeth remembered to ‘do the next thing’ after her husband was killed in Ecuador while missionaries there. As a Titus 2 woman, Mrs. Elliot mentored Donna, who, in turn, has mentored countless women.

Donna and Elisabeth talk about investing in the lives of those who are younger than us. Young moms, though highly educated, should be open to being mentored by older, wiser women.