I love teaching! The opportunity to show kids that they really can draw is my favorite part of this job. So many times I hear my students think they can’t. But I’m a firm believer that with help, you definitely can. So in the spirit of Spring I wanted to share a series of animalRead More
A Clever Way to Keep Childhood Magic
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post and contains affiliate links. All thoughts and opinions are my own. There’s something about the whimsy and mystery of the tooth fairy. Falling fast asleep, anticipating the unknown exchange of your tooth for a coin or even a dollar! I know as a little girl I could not waitRead More
5 Bite-sized ways to reclaim your time!
Even though things are much more convenient, it often feels like there is still not enough time to get everything done. As moms we wear so many hats and okay various roles, time is one thing we have very little of. After having Izaiah I quickly let go of my need to do it allRead More
3 Ways to encourage body safety with your kids
Sometimes it feels as though you can’t protect your kids enough. Plus the conversations you have with them are too soon and too early. But you’re in great company, because I deal with that daily. I mentally dance the fine line of projecting my anxiety/fear on my child, and being too trusting of others. YetRead More
Motherhood | 3 Secrets for Parenting Boys
Over the last few years of being a boy mom, I’ve come to realize how much of a gift it has been. I’m most certainly no expert in parenting boys, but they’ve taught me quite a bit. Aside from the constant fart announcements, pee pee jokes, and urine to clean in the bathroom – they’reRead More
One Year! Happy Birthday Izaiah
It doesn’t surprise me that the night before your birthday you insisted that you sleep on my chest as you did right when you were born. Initially I wanted you to be sleeping on your own, but I know that these moments aren’t forever…so I will hold you as long as you will let me.Read More
Tasty Eats: Mixed Berry Compote
If you know me, you know I wasn’t much of a cook. However, in efforts to spend less time running around, save money (that’s the big one), and mainly because my kids prefer to not eat out. So in the beginning of the year we adjusted our eating in addition to taking some time inRead More
5 ways I didn’t thrive our first year of ministry…
I’ve shared bits and pieces of our story, but never too much for fear that someone reading would see me on Sunday… but after seven years of diving full into ministry with my husband, some parts of me have grown thicker skin (well kind of). I wasn’t all too keen on the idea of comingRead More
Book Review | Girl, Wash your Face
Since my first experience with audiobooks, I’ve begun to check off my book list again. I love reading, and have had a love/hate relationship with finding and making the time for it. Well more so the ideal time to sit, drink coffee, read, in total (yep you guessed it) silence. But I digress, cause thoseRead More
Quality..quality time
As our Christmas break comes to a close, I’m filled with a lot of gratefulness. Unfortunately everyone was sick the majority of our break, I mean really sick. From stomach flu to RSV it’s been one quarantined holiday. It ended up being a serious blessing in disguise. We laughed a lot, cleaned from top toRead More