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Orange Fluff Jello Salad

Orange Fluff Jello Salad

By Marty Walden · 33 Comments

With only five ingredients, Orange Fluff Jello Salad is the go to dish for potlucks and easy family dinners. Your family will beg you to make it! Tips for making Orange Fluff Jello Salad: This is an old timey recipe that the new generation still loves! Uses only five ingredients. Contains cottage cheese, canned fruit and whipped topping. Perfect served… Read More

Filed Under: Easy Recipes, family, side dish Tagged With: fruit salad, jello salad, Mother's Day, side dish

Give Mom the Perfect Gift by using the Five Love Languages

Give Mom the Perfect Gift by using the Five Love Languages

By Marty Walden · Leave a Comment

Does anyone else feel like Mother’s Day is the hardest holiday? Especially if you’re the mom! Torn between being celebrated and honoring your own mother if she’s still alive, sometimes Mother’s Day can be a day of conflict. I celebrated my first Mother’s Day 27 years ago. I know it seems like a cliche, but the years have flown by… Read More

Filed Under: family, Gift Ideas, Lifestyle, Mother's Day, Motherhood, parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: Family, Mother's Day, motherhood, Parenting

What I Really Want for Mother’s Day This Year

What I Really Want for Mother’s Day This Year

By Marty Walden · 5 Comments

Maybe this Mother’s Day you’re feeling a little sentimental like me, or searching for a purpose in those sleepless nights and endless days of diapers and tantrums. Could it be that the teenage years are wearing thin and you’re wondering if anything you’re doing really matters?  Totally unprepared for motherhood 27 years ago, I dove in and have been swimming upstream… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, Lifestyle, Mother's Day, Motherhood, parenting, parenting adult children Tagged With: adoption, Faith, Family, Mother's Day, motherhood, Parenting, Reactive Attachment Disorder

First Mother’s Day Gift Basket

First Mother’s Day Gift Basket

By Marty Walden · Leave a Comment

Disclosure: The post First Mothers Day Gift Basket was sponsored by Expressionery.com but all opinions expressed are my own. I remember my first Mother’s Day like it was yesterday……only it wasn’t. It was 27 years ago.  I was madly in love with this precious bundle of dainty cuteness named Rachel Faith.  I had no idea what I was doing in my newfound… Read More

Filed Under: Crafts, family, Mother's Day, Motherhood, sponsored post Tagged With: crafts, Mother's Day, Sponsored Post

Mother’s Day Message for Imperfect Moms

Mother’s Day Message for Imperfect Moms

By Marty Walden · 19 Comments

  When I was pregnant with my first child my husband Tim and I made some parenting decisions that still affect our family today. We wanted to parent our children in such a way that by the time they were teenagers they would be respectful young adults with an open relationship with us that would be built on trust and… Read More

Filed Under: adoption, faith, family, Mother's Day, Reactive Attachment Disorder Tagged With: Faith, Family, Mother's Day, motherhood, Parenting

Watergate Salad Recipe

Watergate Salad Recipe

By Marty Walden · 8 Comments

Watergate Salad (Pistachio Fluff Salad) is known as the perfect dish for potlucks because it’s EASY and inexpensive! Don’t leave home without it! My husband and I have a long standing joke that allows us to win every “newlywed game” we’ve ever played. When I left for college I didn’t have any cooking skills to brag about. About all I… Read More

Filed Under: Easy Recipes, side dish Tagged With: Family, fruit salad, Mother's Day

Mother’s Day Love for Adoptive Moms

Mother’s Day Love for Adoptive Moms

By Marty Walden · 37 Comments

  For the last three years I have traveled to Orlando, FL, to meet up with some amazing women who are adoptive and foster moms. These women are uniquely drawn together through the bond of parenting wounded children. Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD, and for many of our kids, just one of their diagnoses) is unlike any other parenting… Read More

Filed Under: adopted children, adoption, adoption story, family, mother, Mother's Day, Motherhood, RAD Tagged With: adoption, Mother's Day, motherhood, Simple Gift Sunday

Mother’s Day Crafts with Glass Chalkboard Paint

Mother’s Day Crafts with Glass Chalkboard Paint

By Marty Walden · 10 Comments

DecoArt sponsored our Google+ Live Hangouts on Air at Crafty Hangouts and sent all of us a few products to have fun with. (You can watch my video here.) I’ve shared before about our special plate used to celebrate special days in our family. When DecoArt included glass chalkboard paint in our package I was excited to give it a try…. Read More

Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, family, frugal living, Mother's Day, Seasonal Projects, Spring Tagged With: crafts, holidays, Mother's Day

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Marty Walden believes anyone can create an authentic home filled with simple, thrifty decor. When you join her community, you’ll gain the knowledge and confidence to create a treasured home and still live within your means! Read More…

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