Previous installments were 3 Months Into Marriage: Finding Our Rhythm as a Couple, 6 Months Into Marriage: Creating Overlap, 9 Months Into Marriage: Cultivating Laughter, 1 Year Into Marriage: Messy But Beautiful, 1.5 Years Into Marriage: Adventuring Forward, and 2 Years Into Marriage: Normal and Natural. Yesterday we celebrated our three year wedding anniversary! That’s over 1,000 days of [Continue Reading…]
Archives for 2018
I Don’t Need to Live Near a Target
True story: When I was planning my move to Texas in 2013, one of my top apartment-hunting criteria was that my apartment had to be near a Target. I remember typing in the address of every prospective apartment on Google Maps and searching for the nearest one. If the Target was “too far,” like 20 [Continue Reading…]
Falling in Love With My Actual Life
This post may contain affiliate links. Post title inspired by Alexandra Kuykendall’s book, Loving My Actual Life. The past three years This post feels like a massive personal accomplishment, and I’m not yet done with the first sentence. You see, the past three years have been challenging. Actually, challenging doesn’t cut it. Words like awful, [Continue Reading…]
My Loneliness Was a Gift
My loneliness was a gift. Those are five words I never thought I’d write. Three years ago, almost to the day, I moved. I was two weeks away from getting married and starting a new life with my almost-husband, Riley. Though I was sad to leave my community, job, and city, I was more excited [Continue Reading…]
5 Spring and Summer Recipes We Love
Apparently, I started a series back in 2015 called “Recipe Roundup,” posted two posts (here), and then forgot about it. Since starting my YouTube channel (and sharing many of our meals in my vlogs), I’ve gotten dozens of requests to share more of our favorite recipes on my blog. So, let’s get back into recipe [Continue Reading…]
How to Have a Social Media-Free Weekend
One of my goals for 2018 was to schedule and complete five social media-free weekends this year. My long-term goal is to go social media-free every weekend (or almost every weekend), but I’m choosing to start slow. (Because slow growth is still growth!) As I’ve started completing my unplugged weekends, I’ve gotten some questions. I asked [Continue Reading…]
Meeting My Online BFF in Real Life
About two years ago, in a blogging group on Facebook, I “met” a woman named Grady who lives in New Hampshire. We started following each other’s blogs and social media accounts and slowly started communicating. (This sounds like an episode of Catfish in the making…I promise it’s not!) Eventually, we exchanged numbers and began to [Continue Reading…]
BWSS: I’ve Had Seven Miscarriages
Hi friends! Welcome to the second post in my new series, Brave Women Share Stories (BWSS). Today I am welcoming Sara to share her story of multiple miscarriages. I met Sara and her family several years ago when I lived and worked in Austin (her husband was my boss). She was one of the first [Continue Reading…]
BWSS: Sex Was Physically Impossible for Me
Hi friends! Welcome to the first post in my new series, Brave Women Share Stories (BWSS). Today, I am so excited to welcome Deborah to my blog to share her story about her struggle with Vaginismus, a condition that makes sex extremely painful or altogether impossible. Her vulnerability, bravery, and courage are so inspiring. I [Continue Reading…]
Discontentment Follows You
This post contains affiliate links. This is perhaps the most challenging, most important lesson I’ve learned in my adult life: discontentment follows you. There was a time when I thought “I’ll be happy when x happens.” Or, “When y happens, I’ll feel content.” Or most dangerously, “I won’t be peaceful or joyful until z happens.” (I [Continue Reading…]
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