Yesterday morning after I dropped Annie off I headed to Panera to cash in my free birthday pastry offer before it expired, since I always let those things expire and wasn't about to this time! It's the little things. I walked into the busy location and waited in line, deciding I would indulge myself with [...]
I celebrated my birthday yesterday and I’m now 32. THIRTY-TWO. Wow. It seems crazy to type that. While I know I’m still young (right?!), 32 sounds so adult. Maybe it's because we have a two-year-old and I'm six, almost seven months pregnant with our son (all the deep breaths), but I feel like as monumental [...]
One of my best friends in the world recently shared with me that she messed up. She let down a friend of her's and didn't show up to an important event simply because she had forgotten. It had been a crazy couple weeks for her so while she was beating herself up for not being [...]
Fact: Prayer is powerful. I grew up with praying parents and married a praying man and that has made all the difference in my life and outlook on the ups and downs that come with it. So when I became a mama, one of the first things I thought about was how important it was [...]
In Present Over Perfect, Shauna Niequist talks about “fake rest” and oh am I ever guilty of this. You know, everyone else is napping on Sunday afternoon and instead of napping yourself you decide to take care of business: catch up on laundry, clean the bathrooms, unload and reload the dishwasher, make cookies. After all [...]
