This video reminds me; that being thankful is a revelation that some people never aquire. Thankfulness draws more things to you to be thankful for. Even if at a certain moment, you only have the air you breathe to be thankful for. It's so beautiful the way you brought that idea out in this video. Love your beautiful heart and the way you help so many.
I started following you when you lived in your other house. Megan, you make such a impact in so many lives, your positivity, your ability to be vulnerable even in the scariest of situations. Your faith in God, the love you have for your family, your love of homemaking. I'm so looking forward to what you will bring to this channel in 2025. Merry Christmas and Blessings in the New Year. One thing I know for sure, when we walk through those tough times, God is right there with us as we walk through the thick of it. Sending much love from Florida.
My dad died this year and having your videos weekly has helped. It gave me a little something to look forward to. I appreciate you and your love for Jesus. Keep up the great work!
When I first started watching you I had a baby and I was in a tough emotional place because I had lost my father the year prior and it was a pretty traumatic situation so I was having trouble being present and as nurturing as I had imagined I would be when I had a baby. I was fearful and anxious much of the time. Watching you encouraged me to find the joy in motherhood and I am so very grateful, but I must admit there was a certain ease about your presentation of motherhood that I always felt inferior to. It looked so much easier for you than it was for me. Watching you this year has been such a special experience for me because I’ve felt such communion WITH you. You became more real to me and I am so humbled by your sharing of hard things because it is evident that it has changed you as a person and as a mom. I felt like the weight I have felt in my heart while sustaining and nurturing young life has been reflected and shared by your experience and it has made me feel stronger and more capable as a mother. To make a long story longer- I have prayed for you and your family for a long time and will continue to do so. Thank you for being a light in a sometimes dark world and please know that your experience has served to help at least one person navigate the heavy stuff in life. God bless you and your family and MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I am 67 years and look forward to each video that you share. You will never know how much you encourage me as a Christian and a Nana of 4 precious grandchildren that I care for while my own children work. God is so good! ❤
Megan, you are such a light for Christ in your videos! Thank you for sharing the reminder of the true meaning of Christmas. I am glad you are taking next week off to be with your family - I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas together! 🎄
I wait for your videos each week. You are a good person with a wonderful family. You are open and honest, which is so refreshing. Your children are precious. Thanks. Merry Christmas. My father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 31 years as a production foreman in the Open Hearth where the made the actual steel. His area made the steel for WWII. It was a rough job. He was a good father and a wonderful Godly man. I miss him, but I know he is in Heaven and I will be with him again, and with my mother and family. God is so good.
Yes, hug your kids, I’m from Wisconsin and the latest school shooting was close to home. My word is JOY. Our pastor said joy is not an emotion, it’s an attitude. I want my attitude to be more full of joy.
When I was young, I had a teacher that told us to never let someone take the "J out of your Joy." It was words I live by for the last 30 years. It is an attitude for sure.
Starting your end of year recap with how you appreciate your audience- Megan we appreciate YOU!!! You are my all time favorite TH-cam content. I watch every single video and love them all!
Megan, this grandma at 75 years+, really really appreciated your sit down with us. We so often see the other sides of you and it was so wonderful to see and hear this more vulnerable, serious & faithful sides of you. Wishing you and your whole family a blessed and safe Christmas ❣️
Megan, I am in the same place as you as 2025 is near, but in a very different stage of life. My husband was seriously ill at the beginning of 2024, he was out of work for months and in the ICU for weeks with recovery taking many more months once he was home. Our daughter became pregnant out of wedlock, my son lost his job and Black Friday I was in a horrible car wreck and will be recovering physically well into next year. I want to be quiet, calm, intentional in 2025. And, our granddaughter is the star our family needed to end this year! God bless you and your family this Christmas season. I enjoy watching your family grow, love, and being you.
Greetings from the middle of Nebraska. Oh Megan, I don't know what you are doing for yourself but you look absolutely glowing as you sit by the Christmas tree and fire. I have said this before, but you are truly wise beyond your years! Your family is so blessed to have you as their mother and wife. You prioritize everything around your family. Every video brings me joy in my day. I pray that the new year brings you many blessings and improved health for everyone especially your sweet son Fletcher. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas filled with love, joy, peace and togetherness. God bless!!
I teared up a few times watching your 2024 recap and hearing you speak so honestly about your experiences this year. The way you spoke about the frantic gratefulness was so profound. Settled content gratefulness is exactly how I’d like to aspire to. Thank you for making time in your busy schedule to make these videos I truly enjoy your content and find it inspiring as a SAHM. I hope you enjoy your celebrations with your family and your protected time away.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too, Megan! My word for 2025 is simply Health. I suffer from a chronic illness (endometriosis) and my symptoms have been getting worse. In 2025, I will make healthy living and pain management my priority.
Your thoughts on being thankful with contentment is something I've not thought about. But it reminds me of a dark time I went through when I learned the difference between praying in faith or in desperation. Thank God for His patience and love during our learning. You inspired me to choose a word and mine for 2024 has been BALANCE. I reminded myself of it often. I told my sister about it and she chose FOCUS. Thanks for sharing your heart. God bless your family!!
Merry Christmas to you and your family. You have been such a light in my life again this year - I am 55 and have no Christian friends and only evangelical style churches aground which I don’t enjoy. I live a very blessed life but at times can feel overwhelmed and lonely even when surrounded by people. I am so grateful for your content and many many times it has really lifted my spirits 🙏
I just listened to Lisa’s Simple Farmhouse Podcast with Bread Beckers and it had such good info for freshly milled bread!! Laundry: when we renovated, we built ‘laundry vault drawers’ basically drawers large enough to hold a rectangle laundry basket and trained kids to bring laundry to the correct drawer….One for whites, one for colors, one for towels. When one is full, I wash that load. I love hearing your perspective on things. It makes me think about things deeper or differently. Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family! ❤
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! As I was watching this video the word that came to mind was Tenderness for you. Being tender in your heart could mean fullness like you said but also tenderness towards others and your children. I'm thinking of making my word "Confirmation" this year as clarification for what God wants in my life.
Hello Megan, I've been watching you since Miller was born. I'm an older mom of 5 all mine are grown adults now but I'm always open to learn new tips, tricks and recipes and I learn a lot from you, regardless of age, I'll be 55 in January. I've been trying to get some of your Tallow balm but it's been sold out. I told my husband about and he bought some for me as a surprise. Let me tell you, I just started using it and I absolutely love it. Thank you for making such a wonderful product for us. I highly recommend it to anyone who reads this. Thank you for all you do for us and have a very blessed Christmas ❤
The salvation story is crazy and so beautiful!! Glad the fair was so awesome, and it is okay that you are so moved by things and shed tears when you do. I still give my older sons hugs (nearly 18 and 16). It is so good to do that all the time. My 16 year old son kissed me on my cheek earlier and it touched my heart. I think affection and proper touch is so important indeed!! I love your goals and everything you talked about in this video. Keep up the great work. You are a wonderful woman, wife, and mom!
Yes, keeping those kids alive. We have 4 grown kids so I understand. I had to chuckle as I accompanied our daughter in law to the twins well baby check up. He said to her “Good job mama you’re keeping them alive!!”
I feel this - keeping them alive! My twins are 18 months and going through a sleep regression and a cold, I have a 4yr old who just got over a cold and 7yr old in the tail end of recovering from a cold...it's HARD but I am doing the basics and we are surviving and the Lord is providing and growing me yet again! Twins are a whole different game than singletons! 😂 But oh my, twins are such a blessing and joy!
Megan. I've been watching you for about a couple of years now. Today, I finally subscribed. Ha! It's about time, right?! Thank you so much for providing beautiful, wholesome, and encouraging content. I love the idea of the word stewardship. I think you have been such a good steward of this channel. I hope you enjoy your week off and have a very Merry Christmas❤
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Awesome video filled up with great reflexions. I’ve heard you say “contentment” a few times…maybe that’s your word for the new year. Wishing health and happiness to all of you…😊
I absolutely adore your vlogs! I have been going through some trials and tribulations recently and your vlogs truly put a smile on my face. It's nice to see a Christian family on youtube.
I watch your video weekly and I’ve done so for many years…as my own personal family dynamic changed I appreciate your content more than words could express! Thank YOU! Merry Christmas to you and your family ❤
Thank you for this video. It was a thoughtful reflection on the year and inspired me for my own end-of-year reflections. I also really enjoyed the glimpse of Bethlehem. We moved to PA earlier this year so my husband could do some work related to the steel industry, and the history here is so fascinating! The hard work that built the industry here is truly mind-boggling.
Be thankful that you can have your life back again. There are many people who have to figure out how to move forward finding a new normal. Hopefully you will never have to know that feeling.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 - Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. This has been a huge encouragement to me this year going through some health challenges! Love the verses you quoted in Philippians 4!
I played this video for my sister-in-law. She had a emergency c-section December 2. My nephew was born 12 weeks to early. She needed to hear slow down and be grateful that so far her son is healthy. Every test and hurdle is a celebration.
Megan, thank you for the reminder to celebrate even in the midst of challenges. With a new family dynamic this Christmas, I needed the nudge to refocus and celebrate being together while celebrating the birth of our Savior Christ.
You touched on so many topics and I'm so thankful to have found your TH-cam channel. You truly do remind me God is good. God loves me and I also get laughs and recipes and tips, so just know I'm thankful for you. With that, my only recommendation is more sewing videos haha!! They are my favorite and I really enjoy sewing with you! Merry Christmas and I hope you enjoy your week off!
Merry Christmas to you Megan and your family. Thank you for sharing your videos. For an older mom (I'm in my mid 40s) to an almost 8 year old, you give me inspiration in being a more present and intentional mom even though I work outside of the home. For me for the new year I want to be in the word and be content and thankful with what we have. Praying that the new year brings good health and many blessings. And I'm looking forward to seeing you in Heaven ❤️🤗
Thanks for being honest and shooting this video, even though it was difficult stuff for you to talk about. Sending hugs My words for 2024 were: Heal, Ease & Presence (and I’m carrying them right over into 2025 🙃)
I've been watching your videos for a few years already, and you inspire me so much! I always look forward to Thursdays, it's my favorite day of the week because that means a new video from you. So thankyou for you all do and for being an inspiration! I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! May the lord bless you!
I would love to hear a podcast on young unmarried women still in their parents home! (how we can prepare for marriage, things to learn, what not to do, relationships with parents and siblings)
I'm already married and with 3 kids but i would still be really interested by this topic. It could be useful when i get to the point of having these discussions with my daughters
Thank you for all the lovely videos you‘ve provided throughout the year❤ our lives could not be more different, but I feel a connection in our quest to live our life with a purpose. BTW: I love that you have a real fire!❤ Wishing you and your family a blessed Christmas!
We make bread almost everyday with freshly milled flour. We have our recipe but honestly I find that the biggest thing is to make sure you knead it well!! (I will let it knead in our mixer for a minute or so but I find that by hand is SO much faster and it turns out better.) 2 cups warm water 1/3 cup sugar 1 T. of yeast (slightly mix and let rest 5 minutes) add 1/3 cup oil of choice and mix then add 5-6 cups freshly milled flour 1/3 cup of white flour 1 T. salt 1 T. lecithin (we normally don't add this but we have in the past to increase the quality of the bread) let it combine in the mixer until its pulled together for a minute or 2 then knead by hand 100 times put in a warm place for about an hour form the dough however you want let it rise again for another hour bake at 350 for 20-30+ minutes depending on how you formed it (we use the same recipe for EVERYTHING rolls, loaves, French loaves, cinnamon buns, ect.)
I chose to deal with the hand I'm dealt Megan much the same. This last 5 years has been somewhat busy let's say with illness and hospitals, I look at my hand and say, I'm fortunate in that so many are far worse off than myself & the situation could have been far far worse for me than how it's turned out. I make vision boards rather than put pressure on myself to complete something I may not be able to etc as, well life has a habit of throwing balls at us. I think your word for year should be ' Cope ' because that is what we do in every single situation, good or not so, but we cope and will continue to do so.its one thing we can always count on doing even if it's the last thing we feel we have energy for.. we COPE. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and Blessings in abundance for the upcoming new year. 🎄.
There’s your word ‘content’. Think it will be mind too. Thank you for all your work. I enjoy everyone of your videos. Food DITL homemaking seeing holidays. Etc. you are so grounded and realistic (oh that’s a good word too- realistic!) enjoy the little things is my life motto. Enjoy the holiday season x ☘️
I like to watch your channel as your life is different to mine and seeing how you go through your days is enjoyable. I don’t do anything going into a new year but if I had to pick a word it would be “Ability “. You have the ability to do anything you want, you know your limits and the only obstacle is you. Enjoy the holidays with your family, life flies the older you get. I’m a luck mum of 3 adults (41,39,35) and nana to 11 grandkids (18-2). Stay safe stay strong and live your life with joy in your heart x
Thank you so much for sharing and being transparent that verse spoke to me so much and it en capsules all I want for this year to come. And my word is Grace . His Grace is sufficient for me and to think on the good and to praise Him for everything ups downs ect. GOD'S BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY MERRY CHRISTMAS
I lost my husband of 40 years in August and since his death I have found that I have no patience with myself. Needless to say my One Word for 2025 will be patience. My current word was Focus, little did I know I would first focus on God and His Word reading the Day by Day Chronological Bible and will have read the entire Bible this year. My other focus was on my husband and provide the care he needed. I was fortunate to be his caregiver at home until the end of his life and keep him out of the hospital or nursing home.
I'm a fixer upper too. On a 5 year plan. One project a year, keeps from overwhelming me. And yes, I used sheet vinyl for my bathroom floors. No regrets.
hey girl- loved the video!🤗 Megan you are just one of the best here on TH-cam😘 We love you and your little family to. God is so good😉 Y'all have a Merry Christmas🥰
I’ve learned so much from you Megan, thanks for sharing your experiences with us, I really appreciate it and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and God bless you and your family ❤
Megan, I heard you mention wanting to perfect baking bread with freshly milled flour. Have you heard of the "Prairie Flour Cookbook"? I have heard those recipes most often turn out! I know Good's Store has it. (Other places carry it, too, but so far, Good's price has been the cheapest that I've seen.) That cookbook is on my wish list.
I really enjoy your videos. I loved in Lancaster a couple years ago and when I watch your videos, especially when you go out and about it makes me happy! I love your hospitality tips too. Merry Christmas 🎄
My mom who was my ride or die chick and my anchor, died unexpectantly in May. I miss her so much especially now during football and basketball season. She loved the Lakers (since we live in LA) and she is buried in a Kobe Bryant jersey 😊 but despite my grief and my longing for my mom to be here with me and my family…God is still good. Her death connected me to family I haven’t talked to in years although we live in the same area! God is good all the time and all the time God is good! Have a blessed New Year Megan Fox (not the actress 😂).
Main Street, Bethlehem is nice to walk around, too! Hotel Bethlehem is grand to walk in and just look. Moravian Book Store was a nice place to browse in years past. Not sure how it is now, haven't been there in a while.
I used to live in Bethlehem for 5 years and LOVED it. If you go back, visit downtown Easton (Crayola is there). I also used to work at the PBS right across from the steel stacks that you briefly got a clip of. Also, you would love the Moravian tours they do downtown at Christmas. Josh would love the town a lot for the church history!
If you have a hard time finding a linoleum that looks like tile maybe try an LVP option that looks like tile. We used that in our bathrooms when we built our house because it looks like tile but doesn’t have the tile price tag. We got ours at Elite Flooring and Tile in the Holmes County area.
First of all. Thank you for always inviting us to your thoughs and family. 2 things; 1. When the Taliban did a takeover in Afghanistan in 2021, the main message from the people of Afghanistan to the outer world was "live your life, enjoy your freedom for us, as we no longer can" and I have been taken that with me since. I can live, enjoy, and be grateful for my life. I have the freedom and the capacity. 2. Sleeping together as a family, getting hugs are both good for our nervous system, to calm it down but also to feel safe and secure according to research. Also, I have a friend who has as a goal to never end the hugs with her children first . She always let's them end them. Sometimes they only come for a second and need a quick endurance but sometimes they need to sit for longer and feel the closeness and I really like that idea, to never be the one who end the hugs first. ❤
Love all the ideas that you suggested for a vision board! I think my theme for next year will be FOCUS ... I need to focus more on what is important to me in my life and for my family. I will be setting a goal to start my days with Jesus by reading the scriptures and also read Joshua Becker's book titled 'Things that Matter." In addition, I need to simplify my home and meal planning. Wishing your family a fantastic Christmas week & a Happy New Year!
Thank you so much for sharing you brought tears you’re an amazing mom and an amazing person and you are right. God is good no matter what we go through in life. He is so good to us. I don’t know what I would do. If he wasn’t in my life. He is very important to me and I enjoy watching your videos. I love your content. You’re so humble and you have a beautiful heart thank you Megan have a merry Christmas and a happy new year.❤❤❤❤❤❤ 🌲 🌲
I love Jesus too! ❤ I've completed my vision Board for 2025 and I'm letting God take over my year and I'm just going to "Be still". And my song is "still waters by leanna Crawford, an ode to Psalm 23. Im also going to try and read the bible in 365 days and i ordered the one that Lynette yoder recommended. This year for me was alot of healing from my traumas and gratitude was my word and each day I wrote 3 things down everyday that I was greatful for. So God bless Megan May you and your family have a very blessed Christmas! And yes I'm so greatful for the peace that the Lord has given me. Even though two devastating things happened I'm still so greatful for that little glimmer of peace I experienced because I know no matter what the circumstances are, I know and have faith hope and trust that God is in control! ❤🙏🙌✝️
This video reminds me; that being thankful is a revelation that some people never aquire. Thankfulness draws more things to you to be thankful for. Even if at a certain moment, you only have the air you breathe to be thankful for. It's so beautiful the way you brought that idea out in this video. Love your beautiful heart and the way you help so many.
I started following you when you lived in your other house. Megan, you make such a impact in so many lives, your positivity, your ability to be vulnerable even in the scariest of situations. Your faith in God, the love you have for your family, your love of homemaking. I'm so looking forward to what you will bring to this channel in 2025. Merry Christmas and Blessings in the New Year. One thing I know for sure, when we walk through those tough times, God is right there with us as we walk through the thick of it. Sending much love from Florida.
My dad died this year and having your videos weekly has helped. It gave me a little something to look forward to. I appreciate you and your love for Jesus. Keep up the great work!
I’m sorry for your loss. It’s a tough loss.
I’m sorry for your loss. I will pray for His comfort and mercies .
I’m so sorry❤
When I first started watching you I had a baby and I was in a tough emotional place because I had lost my father the year prior and it was a pretty traumatic situation so I was having trouble being present and as nurturing as I had imagined I would be when I had a baby. I was fearful and anxious much of the time. Watching you encouraged me to find the joy in motherhood and I am so very grateful, but I must admit there was a certain ease about your presentation of motherhood that I always felt inferior to. It looked so much easier for you than it was for me. Watching you this year has been such a special experience for me because I’ve felt such communion WITH you. You became more real to me and I am so humbled by your sharing of hard things because it is evident that it has changed you as a person and as a mom. I felt like the weight I have felt in my heart while sustaining and nurturing young life has been reflected and shared by your experience and it has made me feel stronger and more capable as a mother. To make a long story longer- I have prayed for you and your family for a long time and will continue to do so. Thank you for being a light in a sometimes dark world and please know that your experience has served to help at least one person navigate the heavy stuff in life. God bless you and your family and MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I am 67 years and look forward to each video that you share. You will never know how much you encourage me as a Christian and a Nana of 4 precious grandchildren that I care for while my own children work. God is so good! ❤
Megan, you are such a light for Christ in your videos! Thank you for sharing the reminder of the true meaning of Christmas. I am glad you are taking next week off to be with your family - I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas together! 🎄
Parenting is the hardest job you'll ever love. God bless y'all. Merry Christmas. I sent you a Christmas card.
I wait for your videos each week. You are a good person with a wonderful family. You are open and honest, which is so refreshing. Your children are precious. Thanks. Merry Christmas.
My father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 31 years as a production foreman in the Open Hearth where the made the actual steel. His area made the steel for WWII. It was a rough job. He was a good father and a wonderful Godly man. I miss him, but I know he is in Heaven and I will be with him again, and with my mother and family. God is so good.
Yes, hug your kids, I’m from Wisconsin and the latest school shooting was close to home. My word is JOY. Our pastor said joy is not an emotion, it’s an attitude. I want my attitude to be more full of joy.
When I was young, I had a teacher that told us to never let someone take the "J out of your Joy." It was words I live by for the last 30 years. It is an attitude for sure.
You look absolutely angelic sitting by the fire in that blouse and in this lighting. Happy and calm.
Starting your end of year recap with how you appreciate your audience- Megan we appreciate YOU!!! You are my all time favorite TH-cam content. I watch every single video and love them all!
Megan, this grandma at 75 years+, really really appreciated your sit down with us. We so often see the other sides of you and it was so wonderful to see and hear this more vulnerable, serious & faithful sides of you. Wishing you and your whole family a blessed and safe Christmas ❣️
Megan, I am in the same place as you as 2025 is near, but in a very different stage of life. My husband was seriously ill at the beginning of 2024, he was out of work for months and in the ICU for weeks with recovery taking many more months once he was home. Our daughter became pregnant out of wedlock, my son lost his job and Black Friday I was in a horrible car wreck and will be recovering physically well into next year. I want to be quiet, calm, intentional in 2025. And, our granddaughter is the star our family needed to end this year! God bless you and your family this Christmas season. I enjoy watching your family grow, love, and being you.
Greetings from the middle of Nebraska. Oh Megan, I don't know what you are doing for yourself but you look absolutely glowing as you sit by the Christmas tree and fire. I have said this before, but you are truly wise beyond your years! Your family is so blessed to have you as their mother and wife. You prioritize everything around your family. Every video brings me joy in my day. I pray that the new year brings you many blessings and improved health for everyone especially your sweet son Fletcher. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas filled with love, joy, peace and togetherness. God bless!!
I teared up a few times watching your 2024 recap and hearing you speak so honestly about your experiences this year. The way you spoke about the frantic gratefulness was so profound. Settled content gratefulness is exactly how I’d like to aspire to. Thank you for making time in your busy schedule to make these videos I truly enjoy your content and find it inspiring as a SAHM. I hope you enjoy your celebrations with your family and your protected time away.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too, Megan! My word for 2025 is simply Health. I suffer from a chronic illness (endometriosis) and my symptoms have been getting worse. In 2025, I will make healthy living and pain management my priority.
Your thoughts on being thankful with contentment is something I've not thought about. But it reminds me of a dark time I went through when I learned the difference between praying in faith or in desperation. Thank God for His patience and love during our learning.
You inspired me to choose a word and mine for 2024 has been BALANCE. I reminded myself of it often. I told my sister about it and she chose FOCUS.
Thanks for sharing your heart. God bless your family!!
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
You have been such a light in my life again this year - I am 55 and have no Christian friends and only evangelical style churches aground which I don’t enjoy.
I live a very blessed life but at times can feel overwhelmed and lonely even when surrounded by people.
I am so grateful for your content and many many times it has really lifted my spirits 🙏
I just listened to Lisa’s Simple Farmhouse Podcast with Bread Beckers and it had such good info for freshly milled bread!!
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I love hearing your perspective on things. It makes me think about things deeper or differently. Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family! ❤
Love that laundry idea! and yes, I listened to that podcast. Gave me new motivation.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! As I was watching this video the word that came to mind was Tenderness for you. Being tender in your heart could mean fullness like you said but also tenderness towards others and your children.
I'm thinking of making my word "Confirmation" this year as clarification for what God wants in my life.
Another great year for Megan Fox Unlocked. Thanks for sharing your life with us. Enjoy your extra cold weekend coming up! 🎥🧥🧣🧤
Hello Megan, I've been watching you since Miller was born. I'm an older mom of 5 all mine are grown adults now but I'm always open to learn new tips, tricks and recipes and I learn a lot from you, regardless of age, I'll be 55 in January. I've been trying to get some of your Tallow balm but it's been sold out. I told my husband about and he bought some for me as a surprise. Let me tell you, I just started using it and I absolutely love it. Thank you for making such a wonderful product for us. I highly recommend it to anyone who reads this. Thank you for all you do for us and have a very blessed Christmas ❤
I started doing ‘word of the year’ two years ago after seeing you do it. It’s been amazing and helpful to have a focus for the year. Thank you.
The salvation story is crazy and so beautiful!! Glad the fair was so awesome, and it is okay that you are so moved by things and shed tears when you do. I still give my older sons hugs (nearly 18 and 16). It is so good to do that all the time. My 16 year old son kissed me on my cheek earlier and it touched my heart. I think affection and proper touch is so important indeed!!
I love your goals and everything you talked about in this video. Keep up the great work. You are a wonderful woman, wife, and mom!
What a wonderful way to spend your birthday! Just as wonderful as any gift could be, and the memories will last forever!
absolutely!
Yes, keeping those kids alive. We have 4 grown kids so I understand. I had to chuckle as I accompanied our daughter in law to the twins well baby check up. He said to her “Good job mama you’re keeping them alive!!”
I feel this - keeping them alive! My twins are 18 months and going through a sleep regression and a cold, I have a 4yr old who just got over a cold and 7yr old in the tail end of recovering from a cold...it's HARD but I am doing the basics and we are surviving and the Lord is providing and growing me yet again! Twins are a whole different game than singletons! 😂 But oh my, twins are such a blessing and joy!
Megan. I've been watching you for about a couple of years now. Today, I finally subscribed. Ha! It's about time, right?!
Thank you so much for providing beautiful, wholesome, and encouraging content.
I love the idea of the word stewardship. I think you have been such a good steward of this channel. I hope you enjoy your week off and have a very Merry Christmas❤
Thank you for being a light. Merry Christmas to you and yours and a happy new year!
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Awesome video filled up with great reflexions. I’ve heard you say “contentment” a few times…maybe that’s your word for the new year. Wishing health and happiness to all of you…😊
I absolutely adore your vlogs! I have been going through some trials and tribulations recently and your vlogs truly put a smile on my face. It's nice to see a Christian family on youtube.
I watch your video weekly and I’ve done so for many years…as my own personal family dynamic changed I appreciate your content more than words could express! Thank YOU! Merry Christmas to you and your family ❤
Thanks for sticking around. You're a gem.
Thank you for this video. It was a thoughtful reflection on the year and inspired me for my own end-of-year reflections.
I also really enjoyed the glimpse of Bethlehem. We moved to PA earlier this year so my husband could do some work related to the steel industry, and the history here is so fascinating! The hard work that built the industry here is truly mind-boggling.
Hi megan, i am so grateful to God for bringing me through my emergency heart surgery on nov 6th and now I'm feeling better then ever ❤
Be thankful that you can have your life back again. There are many people who have to figure out how to move forward finding a new normal. Hopefully you will never have to know that feeling.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 - Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
This has been a huge encouragement to me this year going through some health challenges! Love the verses you quoted in Philippians 4!
I played this video for my sister-in-law. She had a emergency c-section December 2. My nephew was born 12 weeks to early. She needed to hear slow down and be grateful that so far her son is healthy. Every test and hurdle is a celebration.
Thanks for your fireside chat! We have had a “hard” year and your talk spoke to me. 💙
Megan, thank you for the reminder to celebrate even in the midst of challenges. With a new family dynamic this Christmas, I needed the nudge to refocus and celebrate being together while celebrating the birth of our Savior Christ.
You touched on so many topics and I'm so thankful to have found your TH-cam channel. You truly do remind me God is good. God loves me and I also get laughs and recipes and tips, so just know I'm thankful for you. With that, my only recommendation is more sewing videos haha!! They are my favorite and I really enjoy sewing with you! Merry Christmas and I hope you enjoy your week off!
Yes! I will do another one here soon!
Merry Christmas!! Thanks so much for being a ray of sunshine and bringing so much inspiration over this past year ♥️
Merry Christmas! Josh, Megan, and family.
Merry Christmas to you Megan and your family. Thank you for sharing your videos. For an older mom (I'm in my mid 40s) to an almost 8 year old, you give me inspiration in being a more present and intentional mom even though I work outside of the home. For me for the new year I want to be in the word and be content and thankful with what we have. Praying that the new year brings good health and many blessings. And I'm looking forward to seeing you in Heaven ❤️🤗
Thanks for being honest and shooting this video, even though it was difficult stuff for you to talk about.
Sending hugs
My words for 2024 were: Heal, Ease & Presence (and I’m carrying them right over into 2025 🙃)
I've been watching your videos for a few years already, and you inspire me so much! I always look forward to Thursdays, it's my favorite day of the week because that means a new video from you. So thankyou for you all do and for being an inspiration! I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! May the lord bless you!
I would love to hear a podcast on young unmarried women still in their parents home! (how we can prepare for marriage, things to learn, what not to do, relationships with parents and siblings)
Great suggestion!
I'm already married and with 3 kids but i would still be really interested by this topic. It could be useful when i get to the point of having these discussions with my daughters
Thank you for all the lovely videos you‘ve provided throughout the year❤ our lives could not be more different, but I feel a connection in our quest to live our life with a purpose.
BTW: I love that you have a real fire!❤
Wishing you and your family a blessed Christmas!
Thank you for the encouragement this morning. I’m going to go read Philippians now. ❤️
We make bread almost everyday with freshly milled flour. We have our recipe but honestly I find that the biggest thing is to make sure you knead it well!! (I will let it knead in our mixer for a minute or so but I find that by hand is SO much faster and it turns out better.)
2 cups warm water
1/3 cup sugar
1 T. of yeast
(slightly mix and let rest 5 minutes)
add 1/3 cup oil of choice and mix
then add
5-6 cups freshly milled flour
1/3 cup of white flour
1 T. salt
1 T. lecithin (we normally don't add this but we have in the past to increase the quality of the bread)
let it combine in the mixer until its pulled together for a minute or 2
then knead by hand 100 times
put in a warm place for about an hour
form the dough however you want
let it rise again for another hour
bake at 350 for 20-30+ minutes depending on how you formed it (we use the same recipe for EVERYTHING rolls, loaves, French loaves, cinnamon buns, ect.)
Thanks. I only have experience with hard red wheat.
@@MeganFoxUnlocked That's all we use😆
Merry Christmas, Megan! So thankful for you and your content. You brighten every Thursday. God bless you and your family!
I chose to deal with the hand I'm dealt Megan much the same.
This last 5 years has been somewhat busy let's say with illness and hospitals, I look at my hand and say, I'm fortunate in that so many are far worse off than myself & the situation could have been far far worse for me than how it's turned out.
I make vision boards rather than put pressure on myself to complete something I may not be able to etc as, well life has a habit of throwing balls at us.
I think your word for year should be ' Cope ' because that is what we do in every single situation, good or not so, but we cope and will continue to do so.its one thing we can always count on doing even if it's the last thing we feel we have energy for.. we COPE. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and Blessings in abundance for the upcoming new year. 🎄.
You are so inspiring and real with us. And I so much appreciate your channel and your life. Blessings!
There’s your word ‘content’. Think it will be mind too.
Thank you for all your work. I enjoy everyone of your videos. Food DITL homemaking seeing holidays. Etc. you are so grounded and realistic (oh that’s a good word too- realistic!) enjoy the little things is my life motto. Enjoy the holiday season x ☘️
I like to watch your channel as your life is different to mine and seeing how you go through your days is enjoyable. I don’t do anything going into a new year but if I had to pick a word it would be “Ability “. You have the ability to do anything you want, you know your limits and the only obstacle is you. Enjoy the holidays with your family, life flies the older you get. I’m a luck mum of 3 adults (41,39,35) and nana to 11 grandkids (18-2). Stay safe stay strong and live your life with joy in your heart x
My word for 2025 is consistency.
Thank you so much for sharing and being transparent that verse spoke to me so much and it en capsules all I want for this year to come. And my word is Grace . His Grace is sufficient for me and to think on the good and to praise Him for everything ups downs ect. GOD'S BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY MERRY CHRISTMAS
I lost my husband of 40 years in August and since his death I have found that I have no patience with myself. Needless to say my One Word for 2025 will be patience.
My current word was Focus, little did I know I would first focus on God and His Word reading the Day by Day Chronological Bible and will have read the entire Bible this year. My other focus was on my husband and provide the care he needed. I was fortunate to be his caregiver at home until the end of his life and keep him out of the hospital or nursing home.
Wow, you seem so different in this video. I really enjoyed it. I pray your family has a wonderful and magical Christmas. God Bless
Merry Christmas to all your beautiful family !! Take some time to relax and enjoy this magical time of year. God is Good !!
I'm a fixer upper too. On a 5 year plan. One project a year, keeps from overwhelming me. And yes, I used sheet vinyl for my bathroom floors. No regrets.
You got me tearing up with the word from Paul. Thank you for sharing that. I really enjoy your videos 🥰 thank you very much for what you do.
hey girl- loved the video!🤗 Megan you are just one of the best here on TH-cam😘 We love you and your little family to. God is so good😉 Y'all have a Merry Christmas🥰
Merry Christmas to you and yours. God is so good, thank you for all your videos ❤❤❤
I’ve learned so much from you Megan, thanks for sharing your experiences with us, I really appreciate it and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and God bless you and your family ❤
Merry Christmas, Megan! Thank you for your videos and making Thursdays special! May Jesus be the focus of everyone this season!
Megan, I heard you mention wanting to perfect baking bread with freshly milled flour. Have you heard of the "Prairie Flour Cookbook"? I have heard those recipes most often turn out! I know Good's Store has it. (Other places carry it, too, but so far, Good's price has been the cheapest that I've seen.) That cookbook is on my wish list.
There’s sickness in my house-so thank you for brightening my day! Happy holidays Megan 💖🎄
yuk! it's all around!
Fullness might be a good word for the year ahead. Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family from Quebec Canada.
You and Jayna should do a podcast on stewardship as a mother, especially with time...would love to hear some more thoughts on it!
Thank you Megan! Enjoy this time with your family, blessings to you, and happy holidays!.. can’t wait to see you in 2025!..🙏🤗🎄❤️💕
You’re just glowing sitting by the tree. That Color top look lovely on you. Merry Christmas to you and family. God bless! Hugs!
Why thank you!
Megan that was a beautiful message! Bless you! 🥰🙏🕊🎄🇬🇧
I really enjoy your videos. I loved in Lancaster a couple years ago and when I watch your videos, especially when you go out and about it makes me happy! I love your hospitality tips too. Merry Christmas 🎄
Megan I love the Chosen.It lets me understand the bible better.Merry Blessed Christmas to you and your family.
My mom who was my ride or die chick and my anchor, died unexpectantly in May. I miss her so much especially now during football and basketball season. She loved the Lakers (since we live in LA) and she is buried in a Kobe Bryant jersey 😊 but despite my grief and my longing for my mom to be here with me and my family…God is still good. Her death connected me to family I haven’t talked to in years although we live in the same area! God is good all the time and all the time God is good! Have a blessed New Year Megan Fox (not the actress 😂).
Merry Christmas and have a wonderful break ! Much deserved 😊
Merry Christmas to you and your family. I loved Evonnie's review of your day trip.
Main Street, Bethlehem is nice to walk around, too! Hotel Bethlehem is grand to walk in and just look. Moravian Book Store was a nice place to browse in years past. Not sure how it is now, haven't been there in a while.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎉 God is good all the time!!! Blessings to you all your family!
I used to live in Bethlehem for 5 years and LOVED it. If you go back, visit downtown Easton (Crayola is there). I also used to work at the PBS right across from the steel stacks that you briefly got a clip of. Also, you would love the Moravian tours they do downtown at Christmas. Josh would love the town a lot for the church history!
If you have a hard time finding a linoleum that looks like tile maybe try an LVP option that looks like tile. We used that in our bathrooms when we built our house because it looks like tile but doesn’t have the tile price tag. We got ours at Elite Flooring and Tile in the Holmes County area.
You are one of my favorites Megan! Love what you put out in the world.
Thanks! It's my little corner of the internet and I'm glad you enjoy it!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!!🎄🙏
First of all. Thank you for always inviting us to your thoughs and family. 2 things;
1. When the Taliban did a takeover in Afghanistan in 2021, the main message from the people of Afghanistan to the outer world was "live your life, enjoy your freedom for us, as we no longer can" and I have been taken that with me since. I can live, enjoy, and be grateful for my life. I have the freedom and the capacity.
2. Sleeping together as a family, getting hugs are both good for our nervous system, to calm it down but also to feel safe and secure according to research. Also, I have a friend who has as a goal to never end the hugs with her children first . She always let's them end them. Sometimes they only come for a second and need a quick endurance but sometimes they need to sit for longer and feel the closeness and I really like that idea, to never be the one who end the hugs first. ❤
Love all the ideas that you suggested for a vision board! I think my theme for next year will be FOCUS ... I need to focus more on what is important to me in my life and for my family. I will be setting a goal to start my days with Jesus by reading the scriptures and also read Joshua Becker's book titled 'Things that Matter." In addition, I need to simplify my home and meal planning. Wishing your family a fantastic Christmas week & a Happy New Year!
You’ve been such a huge blessing to me
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Enjoy all your content. God is so good!
Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family.
Megan, Season's Blessings to you and your family! ❤🇨🇦
Thank you so much for sharing you brought tears you’re an amazing mom and an amazing person and you are right. God is good no matter what we go through in life. He is so good to us. I don’t know what I would do. If he wasn’t in my life. He is very important to me and I enjoy watching your videos. I love your content. You’re so humble and you have a beautiful heart thank you Megan have a merry Christmas and a happy new year.❤❤❤❤❤❤ 🌲 🌲
I love Jesus too! ❤ I've completed my vision Board for 2025 and I'm letting God take over my year and I'm just going to "Be still". And my song is "still waters by leanna Crawford, an ode to Psalm 23. Im also going to try and read the bible in 365 days and i ordered the one that Lynette yoder recommended. This year for me was alot of healing from my traumas and gratitude was my word and each day I wrote 3 things down everyday that I was greatful for. So God bless Megan May you and your family have a very blessed Christmas! And yes I'm so greatful for the peace that the Lord has given me. Even though two devastating things happened I'm still so greatful for that little glimmer of peace I experienced because I know no matter what the circumstances are, I know and have faith hope and trust that God is in control! ❤🙏🙌✝️
Beautiful family,beautiful thoughts, beautiful Chanel!🙏🏻✝️👌🏻🎄❤️
enjoy the free and ordinary things in life
God is good. Let us rejoice and be glad in him.
Beautiful vlog Megan. Happy holidays to you & yours. ❤❤❤❤
Bad time of yr.for someone to passy dad passed nine yrs to this day, so my ❤ goes out to you this holiday.
I was just at Glenwood today 😂 great video! Sometimes I feel like we don’t take the time to reflect that we need. Appreciated this
Hi 👋🏻 Megan, I wanted to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year also Happy Birthday.
I truly enjoy your videos.
Love your videos. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Happy Birthday Jesus
Where is your black shirt from? Been looking for a layering tshirt!