About
Using the scripture Philippians 4:8, the Mission of DailyDwelling is to DWELL on what is TRUE, HONORABLE, RIGHT, PURE, LOVELY, OF GOOD REPUTE, EXCELLENT, AND WORTHY OF PRAISE as I honestly and consistently share my life experiences as a Child of God, Wife of an Army Chaplain, and Homeschooling Stay at Home Mother of Four.
I’m Monica, a homeschooling mom of four precious children who keep me on my toes at all times.
I have been married to my husband, Keith, for eleven years. Keith is a Chaplain in the Army and we are currently stationed in Virginia.
My greatest joys in life are in serving God through being a wife to my husband as he lives out God’s calling on his life and being mom to our four children.
I began blogging to keep in touch with family and friends while living a long distance away and most importantly with my husband during his deployment.
Over the years, blogging has become so much more than that!
It is a community that I am so thankful for.
Along with blogging, I enjoy cooking, reading, crafting, photography and digital scrapbooking. I share a bit of all of those things here at DailyDwelling.
I would love to know that you were here….just leave a little note below!
Linked to: Blissdom 2012 IceBreaker at The Tuckers Take Tennessee and Creative Kristi
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I wanted to let you know that I’ve been reading you for a few weeks now and I’m adding you to my blog roll. Thanks for the great posts!
HI Monica,
I enjoyed visiting your site! I also enjoyed visiting with you today at the px. I will visit your site more often. Have a blessed day. Lori
Hi Monica,
Stephanie at Our Own International Multiples Club recommended your blog. I’m interested in digital scrapbooking, and you do an excellent job with it! What program(s) do you use to put together your pages? If you get a chance, email me or visit my blog.
Thanks and have a great day!
Lindsay.
Hi Monica,Looked at your blog this morning.Great work I love the back ground .Sorry I missed your call last night I felt so bad with this cold I unplugged the phones early in the afternoon and went to bed.Love Mama,Again SUPER JOB ON YOUR BLOG!!!!!
Love the updates
Love the paper bag craft very creative,love ya,Mama
Nicely done! This is one of the most informative & welcoming About pages I’ve seen. I thought your old design with the paragraph info & pic @ the upper left was adequate & I never looked for an About page before now. Wow, when you re-do, you really re-do! Very good. As a teacher, I appreciated the observations about your children. I hope you can give their teachers something similar when they start school – it cuts the learning curve down when you know things like you mentioned!
I am glad you have a new “about” page, your blog upgrade is adorable, my 17yodd commented that it was “fun” too! My name is Shawn and my dh is a pastor, currently working through the process of becoming an Army Chaplain too. If you are willing to answer questions, could you email me? BTW, my I grew up in Germany… my father was in the USAF. I will look forward to hearing from you, and enjoy following your blog, thank you and thank your husband for serving our country!
Sorry it has taken me so long to check out your updated about page. I LOVE IT! Greta work! And I love your redesign as well.
Just wanted to say that I love your website and your mission and your description of your ‘greatest joys’! A few months ago, I selected your husband’s name on anysoldier.com (purely by chance? maybe it was the Holy Spirit’s leading!) for our AWANA Club in Syracuse, NY to send support packages to our troops. Only today did I decide to ‘google’ and find out what denomination your husband adhered to. I apologize for the ‘googling’ – I always feel it is somewhat an invasion of privacy and don’t do it much – but what I have found is AWESOME. I found his website, and now yours. I have read one of his recent sermons (Extreme Makeover) and find it is wonderful and edifying. I read an old post about the hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy” – one of my absolute favorites – and totally agree with his sentiments. Thanks be to God for leading you two in His service (and in the service of our country.) God bless you and your family.
You already know I love your family and what you may not know is that I have once again grown closer to the Lord because of you. You are so wonderful and strong through God’s grace…..it amazes me.
Hi just wanted to say, I stumbled across your blog through some other links. I am a Canadian Christian woman living in Germany. I also have 4 little kids, and I just thought I would say Hi… If you want to say in contact I would love to hear from you.
God bless, and I wish you a blessed Lord’s day!
Hi Monica, when you said your location is not in the USA, I thought you’re in Canada. Now, I found out that you’re in Germany! How exciting – we’re near! Like, 3 GMT hours away!
Hello,
I found your blog with a google search and I love it. I am just getting into the blogging world and you have so much cool stuff; links, buttons, categories, subscribers, etc. How did you discover how to do all of it and what recommendations do you have for me to improve my own blog?
Thanks
Theresa
Hi~
Found you through twitter! We are a Navy family stationed in the D.C. area. I noticed you are in Germany. I run a program that sends expired coupons to overseas military families. I would love to send you some if you use coupons. Anyway, glad I found your blog! It is fun to “meet” other military families.
Toni
I’m just curious, what can you do with expired coupons? I have tons of them, being the frugal one
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Hello! I stumbled upon your blog today in linking up to some of the other Wordless Wednesday participants. I was drawn in by your “About Me” page. I am a Christian mom to 4 kids, ranging in ages from 18 down to 6. I work full-time at my church. I have the highest respect and honor for those families serving in the armed forces. I will pray for your family. I hope to get to know you more!
What a lovely little family you have! You know that I love your blog and your photos, especially the ones you have here. Everyone just radiates with happiness.
Hello! I just started reading your blog and wanted to drop by and let you know that I really enjoy it! God Bless.
I’m so glad you found me on twitter so that I could find you here! I selfishly hope that you update your twitter when you post to your blog; I used to have a reader, but it got overwhelming to find I could never keep up with my reading, so I stopped. *sigh* Twitter is my newest thing (isn’t it everyone’s?) so I’m going to give that a try! From one military spouse to another, thank you for all that you and your husband do! I really do believe that we help to enable our men to serve this great country of ours! God Bless
– Jolyn
your kids are adorable, and I can’t wait to read more of your blog. I got your link off of several blogging ladies who wrote about Blissdom. Do you know where you will be stationed when you get home from Germany? I am at Fort Sill and there is a wonderful bunch of Christian homeschooling ladies here.
Hi Monica,
My name is Karen L. Anderson and I maintain a blog at onlinechristiancolleges.net . I was wondering if you’d be open to me submitting an article for your consideration to be published as well. Basically what I’m proposing is that you provide me with any specifications you have for an article, I’d write the article, and in exchange at the top or bottom of the article you list my name as the author with a link to my homepage.
You’d be getting a quality article written according to whatever specifications (within reason) that you detail, and I’d be getting the opportunity to present my writing and site to a new audience. Depending on the specifications, it would probably take me anywhere from 7-10 days to send you a draft of the article, which you could then review and consider publishing.
Here some features I’ve written:
http://onlinechristiancolleges.net/cuttingthecostsofpostsecondary/
http://onlinechristiancolleges.net/how-to-get-along-better-with-your-college-roommate/
If you are interested in accepting a post from me, I would appreciate your getting back to me.
Thanks,
Karen L. Anderson
Hi Monica,
I know this email is out of the blue, but I just posted an article on my blog entitled “50 Inspiring Religious Leaders You Should Follow on Twitter†http://onlinechristiancolleges.net/50-inspiring-religious-leaders-you-should-follow-on-twitter/ . Anyway I figured I’d bring it to your attention in case you thought it interesting enough to drop a quick mention on your site about it as I’m trying to increase readership of my blog.
Either way, sorry for the unsolicited email and hope you have a good week.
Thanks,
Karen L. Anderson
I just found your blog, and I love it already.
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Hi Monica!
I would like to tell you about the launch of a new website that is a really useful money-saving tool. At http://www.myweeklyads.com, visitors enter their zip-code to instantly view current weekly ads from a multitude of stores in their area. There is so much content already on the site that literally any zip-code entered will show results (there are over 43,000 zip-codes in the U.S.) If you enter a zip-code from a large metropolitan area such as Seattle (98101), Dallas (75201) or Atlanta (30301) you will really see how useful the site can be. We are hoping you like the site and will recommend it to your Twitter followers. All the Best! Thank you, Ellen
I just left a message on your facebook page… But, I wanted you to know that I love your blog! And, I love that you’re a Chaplain’s wife… God bless you & keep up the great work!!!
– Olivia
Hi Olivia! Thank you so much for visiting and for your encouraging comments!!!
Blogging is a community and I love that part of it! Stopping by from the WLW Blog Bash.
Blessings,
Amy
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Thanks for sharing your link w/ me on Twitter! It’s fun to learn some new facts about you after having interacted the past few months on Twitter. I look forward to getting to know you more!!
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Thanks, Ashley! I enjoy reading your blog and look forward to getting to know you more as well.
Cannot wait to meet you next month! xoxo
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I’m excited to be coming to Blissdom for the first time and learning about other people’s blogs via the link-up! How are you liking VA? I live in Northern VA. It’s not what it used to be but I still enjoy it.
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Hi Monica,
Great to meet you through the Blissdom ice breaker. Hope to get to meet you next month at the conference!
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Popped over from the Blissdom link-up! Really looking forward to meeting all of you ladies (and gents?).
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Awesome, another homeschool mom!! I’m headed to Blissdom as a newbie and would love to connect with other homeschoolers!
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I happened to run across your page looking for praise and journaling ideas. It is awesome! I don’t know much about blogging, but I am interested in getting into it and reading more of your information. You are very inspirational and I just love that you have placed your husband and children at the forefront of God’s ministry for your life. I aim to do the same and it’s encouraging to find other women who are succeeding!
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