Featured images photo credit: EAM Photography Make sure you’ve read part four of the story here before reading on. Before you read any further, know these things: This is MY experience. I’m not here to compare myself to anyone else or weigh my hard against yours. I have a new understanding for difficult, high risk… Read More Lessons Learned & Life Loved Through Pregnancy: Third Trimester
Featured images photo credit: EAM Photography Make sure you’ve read part three of the story here before reading on. Before you read any further, know these things: This is MY experience. I’m not here to compare myself to anyone else or weigh my hard against yours. I have a new understanding for difficult, high risk… Read More Lessons Learned & Life Loved Through Pregnancy: It’s A Girl!
Make sure you’ve read part two of the story here before reading on. Before you read any further, know these things: This is MY experience. I’m not here to compare myself to anyone else or weigh my hard against yours. I have a new understanding for difficult, high risk pregnancies and loss during pregnancy, but… Read More Lessons Learned & Life Loved Through Pregnancy: Saying Goodbye to Our Fur Baby
Featured images photo credit: EAM Photography Make sure you’ve read part one of the story here before reading on. Before you read any further, know these things: This is MY experience. I’m not here to compare myself to anyone else or weigh my hard against yours. I have a new understanding for difficult, high risk… Read More Lessons Learned & Life Loved Through Pregnancy: First Trimester
Oh, how I’ve wrestled with this one. I have a note saved from September 12, 2021 titled “What moment did I know I was ready to have a baby?” I had all the plans in the world to chronicle this experience more frequently here on the blog, but that’s not what happened. In fact, I… Read More Lessons Learned & Life Loved Through Pregnancy: Am I Ready?
I always feel most like myself when I’m writing or running, probably because that’s when I can clearly hear God. I’ve also realized God tells me what to write during worship and sermons, and I have to pull out my phone to make a note or the idea will escape me. That happened last Tuesday… Read More The Peace of God
Read part one here. Our Measuring Stick After God used randomly running into our realtor and my yoga teacher’s encouragement to show me it was His will for us to begin house hunting, I told my husband that it was his turn to text our realtor. That same weekend, we were pre-approved and had our… Read More Our First Home, Part 2
Are we even ready to buy a house? I knew nothing about buying a house. What I did know, however, is that one day I would do it, but I had no idea when. My adult life has unfolded traditionally — graduate from a four-year university, start my career, get married — and next on… Read More Our First Home, Part 1
This one is LONG overdue, and I absolutely love telling it, but aside from a condensed version on our wedding website, I’ve never written my and my husband’s love story. I was always trying to write what I thought would be my “love” story in my journals growing up, but the other person was never… Read More Our Love Story
About this time every year, I see prayer lists for back to school circulating the internet, and this year I wanted to create my own. This will be my fifth year teaching, and though I haven’t been at this thing nearly as long as my veteran colleagues, I know that we need prayers now more… Read More 9 Back to School Prayers
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