December 28, 2022 Life Goals I continually reevaluate my “life goals,” if you want to call them that. Core has always been to love Jesus, pass that on to everyone I can touch, and show love when I can. The additions have changed a little: Pre-twenties, I wanted to be [...]
December 3, 2022 Turtles in the Kitchen It had been one of those days. You know, when you begin to question everything, your brain shouts accusing bits at you and highlights every choice you’ve made since infancy, and your biggest challenge is to find something joyful to think on or [...]
The Lady Who Smile. Never underestimate the power of your small gesture! [...]
What do you instantly presume based on a look? This cup, for example: [...]
December 30, 2020 Choosing Gratitude Ever feel just overwhelmingly grateful? That often happens to me as I’m contemplating life. It usually starts when I feel discouraged. Everything bad coming at me all at once or someone mentioning some past mistake that helped lead to some poor circumstance I’m in now [...]
August 8, 2020 Wonder and Amazement “Mom,” this was in a very contemplative tone like Pooh Bear thinking, “do you think God ever gets sad because people don’t like themselves?” I’m pretty sure he does. Her pause wasn’t enough to answer. “God worked so hard on each of us to [...]
July 23, 2020 Failing to Compare Do you know what I hope I fail in? Seriously. I’m super competitive by nature. I had to teach myself that trying to “be my best” is a different thing than being better than someone else. I had to fail at comparing. What are [...]
May 16, 2020 Shattered Again. Shattered Again. This is what strikes my heart again. Of course, in the big scheme of things I realize, this is tiny. This isn’t losing a family member or going bankrupt. Logically, my brain tells me that this isn’t really a bad thing and there [...]
Stepping Back February 23, 2020 My little love is one! I’m 37. We both had birthdays this week. This is the first birthday for one of my children that I missed. I was on my way to a meeting at work when I got two adorable videos from Louis – [...]
November 10, 2019 Memes to Voices A friend was showing us her flower arrangements: she said, “expectation versus reality.” To me, both arrangements looked amazing – her husband had given her a few bunches of flowers which she artistically set in two gorgeous table arrangements. She thought one was excellent [...]