I'm so excited to introduce a new feature here at Joyfully Thriving. Well, it's an additional feature. It's the new weekly edition of the Joyfully Thriving newsletter! Let me tell you a bit about what I've been doing and why I'm making this change. Until now, people who signed up for my newsletter received an email anytime I published something here on the blog. Every morning, if something new had been published in the previous 24 hours, my newsletter list would receive an update via email. Some people really enjoy that but I think the frequency was holding a lot of people back from … Read More...

Have you played around with Wordle before? I learned about it several years ago and used it with my third and fourth graders. They loved creating poetry with this online site. I always liked it too. I plugged in my website address at Wordle and the above words are the ones they picked as popular words from my website. I don't know how scientific it is, but I enjoyed seeing what Wordle said about my blog. I've hinted at it several times over the past weeks and now it's time to share. I've been doing a lot of reflecting about my website over the past month. I started blogging her at Joyfully … Read More...

As we say good-bye to 2013 tonight and welcome 2014 tomorrow, I thought it would fun to see what were the most popular posts on my website this year. It's been fun to watch some of my links get pinned so actively on Pinterest. Thank you to everyone who has pinned content from my website! I greatly appreciate it. Now, without further ado, here are the top 10 articles from Joyfully Thriving this year. 10. Simple Cream Cheese Mints really are simple and so delicious! I love how you can customize them with colors, flavors or shapes for any occasion. 9. I love making Apple Pie Kits for the … Read More...