Eight years! The best eight years of my life, if I do say so myself. Lots of people thought I had lost my marbles when, at 19, I got engaged four months after meeting this…
STUFF I LEARNED IN EIGHT YEARS OF MARRIAGE
PUBLIC SCHOOL MOM’S MANTRA
I’ve actually had people gasp when I tell them my son goes to public school. I say it proudly, cause I am proud of my son, and of the school we’re apart of, and then…
NOT HOME YET
I was coming down from the high of hosting an event that had been my heartbeat and my ministry for the past year and a half. I had left my part of me in Dallas,…
OUR KITCHEN REMODEL : BEFORE + AFTER
I’m gonna try to do a new home tour here, room by room. Very little rooms are done at this point but, with the help of craigslist, I am getting there. Baby steppin’. Our kitchen…
HOLDING ONTO SUMMER
Usually, as soon as August hits, I start wondering Is it October yet? But this summer I’m committing to holding on a little bit longer. I’m making these last few extra warm days count, rather…
BANANA STREUSEL MUFFINS
It looks like the next few days are going to be hot ones, and we fully plan on squeezing the life out of summer, jumping in the freezing cold pool for one last hurrah! But…
FINDING BALANCE
Today I am over at Tweet Potato Pie talking about how I (don’t) find balance… For me: This is the season of life that I’m in. It’s hectic, and the floors are sticky as all…
ONCE A WEDDING PLANNER…
There is a part of me who will always be a wedding planner. I interned for a wedding and event firm for a year when I was planning my own wedding. As I was falling…
SEEING HER AGAIN
Last night I saw Abram’s birth mom for the first time since she handed me him back on that bittersweet day in September. We, of course, had hit the worst traffic on September 17th, 2014…
ADOPTION QUESTIONS ANSWERED
When we were looking to start the adoption process I looked high and low for as many answers as I could find. I read blogs, I asked endless questions, I researched, I soaked it all…
