I blinked and this year is well more than half gone. I blinked and my sweet baby boy will be four months old next Saturday. I blinked and the newborn I held in my arms seemingly yesterday is thriving in all the joys of infanthood… smiling, laughing, cooing, rolling...

Life has a way of marching forward and there are seasons of growth and change and seasons of prioritizing what we invest our time in. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (ESV) sums it up rather eloquently: “1For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time...

I did not initially plan on taking a hiatus from blogging these past few weeks. Life, however, has a way of bringing to the surface the issues that need to be worked through. The house always seems a mess, no matter how often it gets cleaned. Relationships constantly need...

My baby brother tuned eighteen this past Sunday, which definitely makes me feel old, considering I’m fifteen years his senior (however, according to our ninety-one-year-old friend, old is when you take your adult son to collect social security). Since it was my brother’s golden birthday, I wanted to make...

My husband and I have been in the market for a newer vehicle as my husband’s car is a 1997 Honda Accord. We’ve kept it going with the necessary repairs, but knew we’d eventually need to upgrade to something a little newer and more dependable. Thankfully, since he’s been...

About a week and a half ago, my youngest sister and her fiancé flew in to celebrate their engagement party. I had not seen my sister since she moved away last summer to work on a cattle ranch and it felt great to finally be reunited again, even if...

I tend to be a creature of habit. While I don’t oppose some change, it is not necessarily something I’m inclined to embrace enthusiastically. However, without change, we would never see the results of what we wish to accomplish. Making change requires taking action in order to the get...

When life has its challenges and things don’t go as planned, it can be easy to start complaining about everything that didn’t go our way. However, a simple exercise to help shift our attitude is to list the things we’re thankful for. So, here’s my top five thankful list...

Last summer, my youngest sister was offered her dream job of working on a cattle ranch. So, she packed everything up and headed out to Nebraska. While excited for the opportunity this was for her, it was hard knowing she would be living over fifteen hundred miles away from...

This past weekend, and throughout the remainder of this week, my husband and I are enjoying the company and fellowship of a good friend of ours who is visiting. Sometimes it’s nice to just relax and enjoy the moment with those who are dear to us (we might have...