About Jillian’s Journey to Sprouting Arrows

Hello and welcome! I’m Jillian, the heart and hands behind this blog. My journey to starting Sprouting Arrows started in the summer of 2022 when I felt a calling to witness to others. But, as a stay at home mother, I just wasn’t sure how to broaden my opportunities to share Christ with others. This is when Sprouting Arrows came to be.

I am originally from Northern California and considered myself pretty liberal. But, after motherhood and a pandemic, I’m not pretty conservative.

I have a B.S. in Family Studies and an M.A. in Occupational Therapy, but I’ve always wanted to just be a mom, and now I get to be one.

I strongly believe that the change we need to see in our culture starts with the family. I also adamantly hold that spreading the Good News, that there is a God who loves us, and asks us to be a part of His work, is also best started in the family.

Being a stay-at-home mother was just a natural decision for our family. Even when our finances were tight. We just decided that there was no other option and we would do whatever it took to make it work, because it was that important to us. And that is when I realized that more people could do this way of life than they realized. They just don’t realize it…yet.

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Want to have a place to find your tribe? Ask questions and get answers? Topics on wellness, cooking from scratch, parenting, living on one income, gardening, and more! This will be an exclusive community packed with valuable information that you won’t want to miss, all crafted to support and inspire your homemaking journey.

From being a mother to 4 littles that are 5 and under, to figuring out how to do all that I want to do for our family while on a limited budget, each post is a chapter of my ongoing adventure. It is a space where we can learn together. You can follow along as our family learns how to make healthier choices, and figures out how to homeschool with a bunch of littles in tow. It’s a space for sharing knowledge, inspiring each other, and building a community of like-minded individuals who share a passion for a simpler, Christ-centered way of life.

So, whether you’re an experienced stay-at-home mom, just starting a family, or simply curious about this way of life, I invite you to join our family on this journey. Let’s learn, grow, and thrive together in our pursuit of a simple family life.

Introducing my EBook

One Income and Thriving

An introductory ebook for families considering or have recently made the transition of going down to one income as they raise children.

This book serves as our family testimony, guidebook and workbook for readers to determine if staying at home is something they want to do, how to talk to your spouse about it, changing your mindset and habits, learning to budget, as well as other concepts.