what to do when gratitude is hard {free printable}
I do think it’s going to be okay. Eventually. Just not now. We were having yet another conversation about the house and the boxes and the paycheck and the move and the girls and the season and the...
View Articlebecause in a day so ordinary, everything changed
As I document our moments on Instagram I have started using the hashtag everyday beautiful. It began as a way to collect our mundane, our ordinary, our everyday moments together, the ones that shine...
View Articlea {new} new year tradition for our family: memory jar
And here we find ourselves, standing at the edge overlooking the entirety of a year before us. It is right here that we are offered the chance at something new. Don’t you have the sense that...
View Articleroom at the table
We were only living there for five months. Five months of unknown, five months of transition, five months of waiting for my husband’s next career move to fall into place. We had taken big steps of...
View Articlefinding one word to guide your year
Here’s the thing: we’re 14 days into this year and I’m just now thinking about New Year’s Resolutions and Words Of The Year and how I might intersect with what is ahead of me in 2015 and what umbrella...
View Articlethe thing about being brave
Let me tell you guys a story. Last week I talked about how I’ve been sitting with and processing and turning over this word wholehearted. To live with everything I’ve got, even when it might be hard,...
View Articlebe strong & courageous {free printable}
Sometimes being brave is feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Sometimes being brave is listening to that still, small voice inside of you instead of the loud noises all around you. Sometimes it is...
View Articlefree springtime printable
Hey sweet friends! Isn’t this a wonderful time of year? I love the crisp Spring air, the freshness and new all around, and I absolutely love the hope and promise that we celebrate on Easter. Yesterday...
View Articlebirthday love letters: a gift for my children
I’m not the mama who makes first year baby books. I’m not the mama who scrapbooks and chronicles and organizes major milestones, events, and pictures. I love those mamas; I wish I were one of those...
View Articlethe next 10 books i want to read
I just hit 29 weeks pregnant. This baby is coming our way sometime in July and we couldn’t be more excited. I also feel that ticking time bomb that I remember so well with the other pregnancies to...
View Articlewelcome, safe, enough, brave
I’ve been thinking a lot lately. Maybe it’s because my mind is naturally prone to dream. Maybe it’s because life is a lot of things right now and the only way I know how to deal with it all is...
View Articleholding on to both {free printable}
We are tired this morning. Last night a certain four-year-old couldn’t sleep. She first came out of her room about 9 pm while Lane and I were still up watching tv, pretty distraught, bad dreams the...
View Articlehow to find purpose during the spaces in between
We are firmly planted in the sands of summertime. Lazy mornings, lingering in nature, sunscreen scented babies, water play and popsicle-stained clothes. Hands dirty from playing in the sand, bodies...
View Articlefinding what i’m looking for
Every single night when I put the girls down for bed and we say our prayers, I thank God for the roof over our heads and the food on our table. The most basic of provisions. Food and shelter. I do it...
View Articleletting love win
So here’s the thing, friends. Sometimes I stress about what I’m going to put onto these pages. Sometimes I feel like there has to be a life lesson, a thought-provoking devotion, a movement from here...
View Articlethe stories we tell
When we get home, Mom, I’m going to take off my shoes and then I’m going to change into my green dress and then I’m going to get out the crayons and color with my sister. She narrates our entire day....
View Articlefor those who wonder if they can keep going
I don’t know how to do this well. I know how to embrace adventure and meet new people and adjust to life transitions and make new cities fun for my girls and knit our family so closely together that...
View Articleon stepping into a new year
It sits on my shelf, still full from last year’s scribbles. This glass jar of mixed up paper, words jotted down quick in different colored pens as the kids ran laps around my legs day after day after...
View Articleunraveled and undone
I feel their presence next to me before I am fully aware of what is happening. Through squinted eyes, I roll over and see the two little girls next to me, giddy with an excitement that rivals...
View Articlewhen i said the wrong thing to the stranger at the gym
I wrote this post 2 years ago after Ellie was born. I stumbled upon it and once again find myself post-baby and it struck a cord in me. Maybe it will in you as well as we sit one month into New...
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