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Where I share my passion for the calling to Motherhood and Homemaking and also a little bit of home decor!

05/11/2026

Let’s go thrifting!

There are three things that I almost never buy new that I always find an abundance at the thrift store and so here are my top three categories.

1. Children’s books.
📚 my children love reading, but we prefer to pick up the books that are older. We just enjoyed the vocabulary a little bit better and love the artwork and older books and so I love to find them in packages like this where you get a couple for a dollar and it’s such a great deal.

2. Tablecloths
If you’re like me and like to protect your kitchen tables, we have a table protector on ours and table cloths come in handy not only to protect but to make for easy cleanups. The thrift store is a great place to get so many adorable ones for a fraction of the cost.

3. Kitchenwares.
I almost never buy new kitchenwares because you can almost always find the next popular trend waiting for you in abundance at the thrift store! from can openers two pans the thrift store really has it all.

Bonus round:grandma decor! if you’re like me and prefer decorations that have the cutest charm, you’re gonna wanna check out the thrift store there is always someone donating an estate with the cutest home decor that has always priced so reasonable!

What are your items that you always check your thrift store for? I would love to know what’s on your list! 👇

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day! I just wanted to share a little encouragement as we go through Mother’s Day.

It can be really easy let our emotions and expectations of how we think a day should go lead us into discontent and grumbling.

Something God has taught me is that I have few short years of mothering my children in my home it isn’t a burden of “I have to” it’s a perspective of “I get to”

I get to love my kids in my home for these short years.
I get to show them that on Mother’s Day I’m still their mom that loves them and is grateful for my position as a nurturer in their life.

I get to take part in planning a fun family day.

I get to be a mom and I get to do the parts that being a mom entails, anything extra is just a cherry on top.

Don’t let expectations and comparisons of what others do or do not do steal your joy moms.

Because you have it now but it could be gone in a blink of an eye.

Happy Mother’s Day friends! We get to celebrate today and that is such a blessing

05/09/2026

Unpopular opinion: Stop saying that moms of young kids are in the trenches.

I am in my investment era. I am putting in my time in my kids lives to one day reap a reward of raising adult children.

Good things are worth the effort. I am not a victim to motherhood.

Being a mom is tiring but also a joy and we don’t need to focus on complaining when we have such an over abundance of resources and programs that our parents lived without.

I am going through my rite of passage as a mom-and yes, part of that is being tired and sometime that means pulling back and doing less in wisdom BUT I am also full of joy knowing that what I am doing is worth it.

Not in the trenches but in the garden. Pruning, weeding, feeding and nourishing a future harvest that is worth the toil it takes to grow healthy humans

05/09/2026

I wanna talk to all the girls out there, whose hearts are hurting around Mother’s Day.

Often times we assume that people who share messages about Mother’s Day not always being about ourselves assume that the person sharing that must have amazing relationship with their own mothers, but that’s not always the case.

I don’t have a perfect relationship with my mom. It’s not super close and we have a fractured past, but with all of that being said, God has always been sovereign.

There are absolutely women who have not taken the challenge of Titus 2 who are older who have forsaken wisdom and are going to make Mother’s Day all about them, and that is absolutely selfish, and God tells us to guard our hearts, and to not continually put ourselves in a place of where we know we are going to be hurt.

But something I have found even with my own relationship with my mom is that when I go to God with a sincere heart wanting to honor my parents, that’s not just a command for if my parents are perfect-that is a command regardless of their standing with me.

This command comes with a promise- for me so that I can have a long and prosperous life, but it’s also a protection.

It protects my heart from bitterness and anger and resentment and reminds me that my faith is in God and his goodness, not in who my parents are.

Mother’s Day brings a lot of complicated feelings, not just when our parents are perfect, but also when our parents miss the mark.

Regardless of if the women around you are perfect or not we can rest in God‘s promises and his faithfulness to us that he is sovereign, and he is good- he sees our hearts and he loves us and he cherishes us and he sees all the hard work that we are putting in with our kids and he says “WELL DONE”

If you’re struggling with your mom this Mother’s Day just know I understand and I have been there, and God is always so faithful to work in our hearts when we are struggling around holidays like Mother’s Day 💗💗

05/07/2026

Unpopular opinion, I think that millennials have become one of the most entitled ungrateful generations.

Scrolling on Instagram lately has really just made me question if I want to identify with being a millennial.

There are so many videos being posted of just either entitled millennials. I feel like everything should be made about them or a bunch of millennials that are so stuck on the word trauma that they think that they need to cut everyone out of their lives.

We used to have respect for our elders, we used to honor our elders, even though they didn’t always get it, right.

They did everything to give us better lives and this is how we repay them.

It’s not a way I will live my life.

I am thankful and I am grateful for all my parents did for me, even though they were not perfect.

The longer I am a Mom the more thankful and grateful I am for all my mom did while battling all of the things she had to battle.

Our parents may not have gotten it right, but our attitudes towards them tells us more about our character as millennials and it’s really disappointing.

I will choose thankfulness and grace and gratitude over this entitlement and hopefully can raise my kids to understand what it means to respect those that went before them.

05/05/2026

I have to admit for many years of my marriage I sat with a critical spirit against my husband.

Convinced that I was just trying to help him become a better person because I “saw” how much better he could be BUT I was missing a crucial thing.

Perspective.

I thought MY ways and my understanding would lead to my husband being a better person and that’s what I got wrong.

I was leading from my understanding not Christs.

Instead of exhorting and encouraging my husband I was knit picking and critical.

We have to remember as wives that God has given us a special roll as wives and that’s to build up NOT to tear down.

Look for the areas God is working and cheer and encourage that, not what you think needs to happen.

And when you do have a valid concern bringing it to him in grace and mercy not in condemnation.

So do you struggle with this like I have? It’s important to see our husbands through the lense of Jesus’s death on the cross and the grace that covers them instead of our own opinions.

If you struggle I totally get it because I was this way for so many years and still need the occasional reminder too!

Our husbands want to know we are for them and one of the best ways to do that is through encouraging not tearing down

05/02/2026

If I could give new moms any advice this is it.

You don’t need to rush.

so often we feel pressured to have things figured out right away for our kids and something I’ve learned looking back. Is that realistically the season I have with my kids while they are young is much smaller then you think.

Half of my first child’s childhood I spent more stress stressed out on being worried than enjoying the short amount of time that I actually had with him.

Give yourself permission to take your time to enjoy the moments you have with your kids while they are young and realize that before you know it, those moments will pass.

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