We call this Christmas in a bottle. It is allll the lovely and joy and yummy and warmth blended together to make one amazing holiday scent!

From the Young Living website:

"With some of our most popular Christmas essential oils, Christmas Spirt™ taps into the happiness, joy, and comfort associated with the holiday season. It combines Orange, Cinnamon Bark, and Spruce to create a warm, spicy, and sweet Christmas essential oil blend that’s sure to be loved by everyone in the family.

Thanks to its familiar notes and timeless aroma, Christmas Spirit essential oil blend helps evoke feelings and memories tied to the joy of Christmas and simpler, more peaceful moments. It’s a great gift for the holidays, and it can easily become an important part of your family traditions. Diffuse it during the holidays and winter months to help children, family, and friends reminisce over the past and create new memories for the future.

Christmas Spirit Essential Oil Uses:

• Bring joy to the party by diffusing this warm, comforting aroma during holiday events.
• Combine 15–20 drops oil with 2 cups baking soda to create a DIY carpet cleaner. Sprinkle the combination on your carpet, let it sit for a couple hours, and vacuum to bring the scent of the season into your home.
• Create a DIY air freshener by combining 30 drops oil with 2 cups water in a glass spray bottle and shake well. "

Y'ALL. You neeeeed this oil in in your life during this season!!!

Right now, through the end of November, I would love to gift you with a bottle of this!! Start your oily journey by clicking here. Change your health and wellness and hope and joy. It is an amazing investment into yourself and your family!!!

And feel free to email me if you ever have any questions about it or need help getting started!
restorationessentials@gmail.com

my four.

pictures by the talented Lauren at Ashes and Oak Photo

Anchored Press!

Y'all know this mama needs her a planner. And I also need my time with Jesus and some wise encouragment each day...so when I found The Anchored Press Planner a few years ago, I knew I needed it!

So you can imagine that I am beyond honored to be part of the upcoming soon-to-be-launched 2018 Planner!! Like...SO excited. The other women who will grace the pages of this Planner are just beautiful.

I can't wait to share more with you when it launches next week...so stay tuned!

And if you are a boss mom, a soccer mom, not a mom...whatever kind of woman you are: you will be so blessed by this planner!!

Cannot wait to share more!!

for now, you can read more about Anchored Press on their website, www.anchoredpress.com, and follow them on instagram @anchoredpress.

And here is a great little video from the amazing woman who created it, so you can hear more of her heart behind it!! LOVE!!! (this shows last year's planner - stay tuned for exciting things in the all new 2018 one!)

Y'all need em.

It's no secret that we love our essential oils.

They have benefited us in so many ways...from sleep to immune support to keeping sickies away to major emotional and mood support for this mama!! I literally can't imagine life without them now!

I was a major skeptic. I used oils from the grocery store before, just to see what the fuss was all about. And I didn't like them at all!! They actually gave me headaches, doing the opposite of what they were supposed to do! Little did I know then, that that was because not all oils are created equal!! (lots of store brands have synthetic fillers in them, they are not pure).

But then a friend brought me over a bag of YL oils one time when my son was really sick. I was skeptical but did what she said...and we were SHOCKED at the quick turnaround of his health from what couldve been another run to the ER for respiratory sickness.

So...I was sold. And my love just grew the more and more I found out what we could use them for. #gimmealltheoils

I am literally amazed every day that what I have at my fingertips, to use for the health and wellness of myself and my family...is a God-created, God-given GIFT!!

If you know me you know what I'm bout to say: Y'ALL NEED OILS. (I wont ever stop saying it, lol)

No but really...if you want to know more, don't ever hesitate to ask. Even if you just want to try some samples...I will hook you up friend!

email me: restorationessentials@gmail.com.

You can also go to my website to learn a little but more there too!
www.restorationessentials.com
 

Steady.

It's gonna all be new, and all be good.

That doesn't mean it'll all be easy or comfortable or won't involve emotions. It doesnt mean it'll look exactly how I think it will or how I want it to.

But what I do know is that it will be good...because HE is good.

It's the nature of who God is, and He doesnt change.

So I can know then when things start to shift - physically, emotionally, circumstantially - I can know that He is never-changing.

I like to think of God as just "steady". When things feel shaky or shifty...He is steady.

So in a few days...when my kiddos start full time school for the first time (a big change from homeschooling). When Mama starts working her business more full-time. When my husband starts to see the fruit of some dreams and prayers come to life and pour more time into those things. When my last baby starts to crawl (thats a whole other changing of emotions, y'all)...when all the changes around me seem to come flying by...I have a STEADY in my life.

Don't forget - especially you mamas who are sending your babies off to school - that He is their steady too. :) So send them off with the confidence of who He is and how secure you can be in His goodness.