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About Angie Tolpin

Angie has been married to her best friend Isaac for almost 16 years and they have six children ranging from 5 to 15, with one on the way. She is passionate about encouraging women in their faith, but also really enjoys a good ladies night out with kindred sisters that know how to get real and laugh hard! She is the author of Redeeming Childbirth, and writes on Leaving a Legacy through marriage, motherhood, and mentoring on her blog. She has just released her first online study, Redeeming the Division: The Quiet Fight Between Women. She loves redeeming social media for the glory of God and you can find her on facebook, instagram, and pinterest. Don't miss when new articles are published! Subscribe here!

Help Save Babies!

Help Save Babies!It's that time of year again & we need your support raising funds for the Greater Portland Pregnancy Resource Centers. The PRC serves about 8000 women and babies annually. Offering free services like counseling, labor & delivery education, maternity clothing and baby clothing, ultrasounds, pregnancy tests and so much more. We will be participating in this year's Steps for Life coming up on May 15th, 2010! To sponsor Team Tolpin go to: "Saving [...]

By |May 2nd, 2010|Blog, promotion events|1 Comment

Drew’s Bug’s Baby Scrapbook

As a mom of almost 6 little ones I am WAYYYYYYYBehind in Scrap booking...Who isn't right!?I had given up completely a couple of years ago for the sake of "parenting" my children instead of scrap booking... which is what I would have had to be doing all the time in order to properly archive every photo I took. He, He.... I like taking pictures!A friend of mine mentioned this online scrap booking company called smile [...]

By |May 2nd, 2010|Blog, Scrapbook|0 Comments

Starting Seeds

Spring time... scarifying time...soaking time...transplanting time... weeding time...soon it will be planting time!The Farmer plants the crop (does the hard labor), but the Lord blesses the work. He makes it grow healthy and protects it. This year my prayer for this garden is for more than blessing the abundance, it is for protection from disastrous pests and massive quantities of weeds. We are drastically down sizing our gardening efforts compared to last year out of [...]

By |April 29th, 2010|Blog, Living Green|0 Comments

Piano Recital

The Kids had their piano recital on Sunday! They had so much fun performing the music they had been working so hard on. This was Kelsey's forth year, Austin & Megan's first year. Good Job Kiddos! If you quickly scroll down to the bottom of the blog you can pause the music... then hear the piano recital pieces by clicking play on the picture.

By |April 27th, 2010|Blog, Home School|0 Comments

Fun Things the Tolpin Kids have been up to!

Getting down & dirty making our own seed starting mix.Recipe: Equal parts-organic compost-perilite-spahgmum moss (optional)cheaper when doing a lot of seeds... makes more! Bonus: Fun for kids to "cook" soil!Water and let sit for 12-24 hours before using...-potting soilAfter scarifying seeds & soaking others for a week and a half... we transplanted the seeds into our homemade seedling mix!Silly times between doing school work... Enjoying one another!The past 2 weeks have been busy but fun!What [...]

By |April 27th, 2010|Blog, Home School|1 Comment

Pass It On Sale

Here is an event for all you garage sale and resale enthusiasts...This weekend April 16-181625 NE SAndy Blvd @ 16thOpen to Public:Free Parking & AdmissionCash PreferrredFriday.......10am-7pmSaturday........10am-6pmSunday..........10am-2pmNo bags, backpacks, or large purses allowed during any day of the sale.go to.... www.passitonsales.com

By |April 15th, 2010|Blog, promotion events|0 Comments

PREMIER OF ESTRANGED IDENTITY

PERFORMANCE DATES Tomorrow, Friday 7:30 pm Sat, April 10th 2pm Thursday, April 15th 7:30pm Friday, April 16th 7:30 pm Saturday April 17, 7:30pm All shows performed with a live orchestra Run Time: App. 2 hours w/ 1 intermission Theatre Location: Mt. Hood Community College Theatre Go to: www.trueheartproductions.org/ for more info on this play about the life of Mary Magdalene

By |April 9th, 2010|Blog, promotion events|0 Comments

Easter Parenting Resources

There are so many fantastic resources available today for teaching children about the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Sometimes it can be overwhelming, can't it? I am going to share the majority of what we have been using over the years during Lent and Easter Season.  When intentionally striving to leave a legacy of faith and a deep understanding of Christ, His death, sacrifice, and resurrection, one way to really help impress the [...]

A Messianic Passover

 I am excited to share a glimpse into one of our family traditions, a Messianic Passover! Every year we seem to add new traditions or mix up what we teach on... usually our meals and teaching, worship and prayers all take about 3 hours and the preparation is about 5 hours of cooking and 3-4 hours of scripture prep. You can make this more or less involved depending on the ages of your children and [...]

By |April 4th, 2010|Blog, Holidays, Traditions|0 Comments

Fun Playing Dress Up

By |March 30th, 2010|Blog, Uncategorized|0 Comments