It's All About the Small Things: Why the Ordinary Moments Matter

by Melanie Shankle, Ree Drummond (Foreword by)

Overview

In It's All About the Small Things—formerly titled Church of the Small Things—Melanie Shankle helps you embrace what it means to live a simple, yet incredibly meaningful life and how to find all the beauty and laughter that lies right beneath the surface of every ordinary, incredible day.

Also features bullet journaling pages and exclusive lists of the small things that bring Melanie joy, including her favorite TV shows and movies to fashion must-haves and more!

Is my ordinary, everyday life actually significant? Is it okay to be fulfilled by the simple acts of raising kids, working in an office, and cooking chicken for dinner?

It's been said, "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away." The pressure of that can be staggering as we spend our days looking for that big thing that promises to take our breath away. Meanwhile, we lose sight of the small significance of fully living with every breath we take.

Melanie Shankle, New York Times bestselling author and writer at The Big Mama Blog tackles these questions head on. Easygoing and relatable, she speaks directly to the heart of women of all ages who are longing to find significance and meaning in the normal, sometimes mundane world of driving carpool to soccer practice, attending class on their college campus, cooking meals for their family, or taking care of a sick loved one.

The million little pieces that make a life aren't necessarily glamorous or far-reaching. But God uses some of the smallest, most ordinary acts of faithfulness—and sometimes they look a whole lot like packing lunch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310354963
Publisher:	Zondervan
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,026,461
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Melanie Shankle writes regularly at The Big Mama blog and is the New York Times bestselling author of four previous books, including Nobody’s Cuter than You. Melanie is a graduate of Texas A&M and loves writing, shopping at Target, checking to see what’s on sale at Anthropologie, and trying to find the lighter side in every situation. Most of all, she loves being the mother of Caroline, the wife of Perry, and the official herder of two wild dogs named Piper and Mabel. The five of them live in San Antonio, Texas.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman 9

Introduction 11

1 Give Me a Casual Corner Suit and Get Out of My Way 17

2 How Walmart and a Frito Pie Made All the Difference 28

3 Yes, Virginia, There Is Such a Thing as a Naugahyde Sofa 41

4 Se Habla Van Halen? 55

5 Why a Trans Am Might Be Overrated 67

6 The Dirty Truth of a White Couch 75

7 Forty Is Not the New Thirty 84

8 Bangs, Bangs, You're Dead 91

9 So You Think You Can Parent 99

10 Fish, Frogs, Crabs, and a Farm of Lies 111

11 True Tales of Canine Delinquents 122

12 The Glamorous Life of a Writer 138

13 To Exercise or Not to Exercise? That's Not a Real Question 149

14 Autocorrect Is the Devil 162

15 The Leader of the Band 168

16 Baby Sister 176

17 Dodging a Bullet 184

18 When Life Is a Mixture of Sweet and Sad 193

19 Church of the Small Things 207

Acknowledgments 219

Special Extra Content from Melanie 223