Rosanna Witmer

A friend recently told me in an issue involving their child: “I simply don’t have enough time or energy to fight this issue for them.” This feels like a very dangerous theory to have. I get it, I really do. I understand the weariness of constantly making decisions for our personal family’s needs and convictions, much of the time going against “normal protocol” that is the copy & paste of America. But if we don’t stand up for our own flesh and blood, NO ONE ELSE WILL. We are the voice for our littles. The other week on his health records, my teen told me it was written, “Mother absolutely refused _____for her child.” The truth actually was, “Mother politely declined this optional treatment for her child.”
Fear of the unknown threatens to overwhelm clear or rational thinking, but take heart Mama’s and stay strong for our offspring. We are the voice and Jesus always walks beside us with infinite wisdom guiding our every step.🙏🏻

If you want to be humbled on the daily-become a Mother.
If you want to blessed on the daily-become a Mother.🤍

We have the full range of teens down to the baby stage, and it feels like half of our parenting these days is a little more like a greased wheel/relaxed approach, and then the other half feels like we’re in a race car with no clue what’s around the next corner.
Care to guess which half stops me in my tracks, and beg the Lord for grace and wisdom for the future?😄
But then that’s also how we felt almost 14 years ago, when we were first time parents with an actual human we were suddenly responsible to keep alive & well, and God hasn’t let us down yet, so I’m relying on him for each step of parenting teens as well. Ain’t nothing this Mama can handle on her own.😍🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thinking extra much these days...if it was just one baby that was murdered, is that not one too many? 😭
But it is soooooo many more babies than 1 {or even 2} that were murdered and used, and we try to justify it all in the name of health.
Jesus said “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
But we, especially the Christians know what we do. Jesus help us.💔💔

Hallelujah, we serve a risen Savior!🌿

Yesterday’s snow day alternated between children bouncing off the walls (looking at you basket ball net that got hung in my kitchen) mounds of wet snow clothes, added to the fact that 99.9 of my friends list is vacationing in Florida as we speak, and I felt like the walls were closing in. 🤦‍♀️😆
And so I do what I know without fail will calm my heart, bundle up with as many layers as it takes, and walk through the gently falling snow. Bonus is carrying 25 extra pounds on my hip aids in a great workout, and babe loves it.
Today is basically a repeat of yesterday, but as my mother-in-law told me within weeks of her death-“just enjoy every moment of it.”🤍

Snapshot while taking a breather poolside of our 7 months with baby Tru.
God knew exactly what he was doing when he sent this ray of sunshine to our family right at the beginning of a crazy, unsettling year, and we couldn’t be more grateful for our little Tru boy! Weighing in at 21 pounds and still exclusively nursing...I’m now taking recommendations for your favorite first real food for baby, I’m not a fan of baby food, and it feels so long ago that I was this stage with my other 3. 🤔😉

School starts in just a few days, and with that always comes the importance of healthy immune systems for my littles! I literally have to hide elderberry syrup from my 5 year old, he loves it that much!😃 One of my top goals in supplements for children is finding ones without added sugar, and this elderberry makes the cut!👏
Along with the elderberry syrup we are doing a sugar free chewable kids multi+probiotic, and a delicious gut enriching, yummy kids drink that helps to build good gut microbiome! We are excited to have great health resources on hand and be proactive as we head into the 20-21 school year!

School starts next week, and with that always comes the reminder that I need to make sure that we are well stocked and faithful in our immune boosters to power through flu season well!
In our vitamin basket is the very much loved elderberry syrup, which I literally have to hide from my 5 year old,😅
Sugar free chewable multi + and a yummy citrus kids drink that’s filled with vitamins, and builds up good .💪
Check the comments for the link and a $10 promo code if you would also like to try our favorite sugar free elderberry!