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After six months of traveling literally across the world and back again, life has taught me one important lesson: get out of the pilot seat and take the rightful window seat in life (the aisle or middle seats work too). Last year God called my family of five to literally uproot the life we had […]

Why You Should Live Life from the Window Seat

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After six months of traveling literally across the world and back again, life has taught me one important lesson: get out of the pilot seat and take the rightful window seat in life (the aisle or middle seats work too). Last year God called my family of five to literally uproot the life we had […]

If you were to tell me that I would be living life full-time in a 5th wheel trailer with my husband, our three young kids and our dog, I would have told you that you were out of your mind. If you were to tell me that I would be traveling over 3,000 miles in […]

Community book sharing libraries have been popping up all over the country the last few years. When we put a little free library on our street, we had no idea that the impact would be so great. It’s why I think every community should have a book sharing library.

Community Book Sharing Library

Backyard chickens are more valuable than the fresh eggs they provide. How you may ask? Well, the extra benefits are for the family raising them—especially for the kids. The benefits of raising kids with farm animals are not only vast; they are invaluable.

Gardening is not for the instant gratification at heart. You rarely see immediate results from your crop, and for a kid, that can be almost unbearable, as their attention spans are usually equated to their age (and I find that to be true as my 4-year-old’s attention is just about 4 minutes!). But the benefits […]

Teach Your Kids How to Garden

Explore my latest book for a fresh outpouring of joy, hope, and gratitude. Warning, you won't be able to put it down!

SUNROOFS AND SHOEBOXES

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I'm JAIME MATHEWS

I am obsessed with healthy living, gratitude, gardening, mindfulness, and raising kind kiddos... and I write about it all. May my words spur you on to cultivate a home infused with the sweetness that comes from living a life devoted to Jesus.

Wife and mother, Chief operator of the Mathews Homestead, homeschooler, not-so-novice gardener, resident goat herder, and your new Jesus-loving friend.

JM