Before I depart for any trip, I shop on Amazon. This is partially because I’m lazy and prefer online shopping to real-life shopping, partially because Amazon prices are usually cheaper than their in-store counterparts, and partially because I live in the middle of nowhere and don’t feel like driving 45 minutes one way to Target. [Continue Reading…]
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God Can Handle How I Really Feel
I wrote this post last October but was too fearful to publish it then. I have the courage now. So much of the anguish and anger I describe in this post has lifted in the 7+ months since I wrote these words, but the underlying truth–that God can handle my rawest, realest, most unraveled self–brings me [Continue Reading…]
1.5 Years Into Marriage: Adventuring Forward
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, and 1 Year Into Marriage: Messy But Beautiful. On January 31st, we celebrated one and a half years of marriage. By celebrated I mean that on February 1st I thought, “Wow! We’ve [Continue Reading…]
How To Take The Crazy Out Of This Holiday Season
Peace, joy, light, laughter, love, and rest–the definition of your holiday season–right? Oh, no? What about stress, busyness, heaviness, anxiety, exhaustion, and dread? Does that more accurately describe it? The unfortunate reality is that the second set of words, the ugly set, that’s how so many people characterize their holiday season. Yeah, that late Thursday in November [Continue Reading…]
Write Your Prayers Down
This is a repost from the archives. It was originally published in December of 2015, but every word rings true today. Write your prayers down. In a journal, on a piece of computer paper, in the margins of your Bible, on a sticky note, across a chalkboard, in your notes app. Write down what’s making your [Continue Reading…]
Gifts for the Cozy Homebody | Holiday Gift Guide 2016
Today is the first installment in my 2016 Holiday Gift Guide series! I have several posts planned, each around a central theme. As the post title suggests, today’s gift guide is focused on gifts for the cozy homebody in your life. I would 100 percent put myself in this category…in fact, as I type this, [Continue Reading…]
Meet the Mentees
Want to meet the women who have completed my Mentorship Program? Meet the mentees below! Mary-Margaret Sullivan | mims-the-word.com Mary-Margaret is a 23-year-old Idahoan, recently turned Washington, DC transplant. She does not shy away from relatable and sensitive subjects, but finds a comedic twist in everything she writes. She works in government (yikes), but likes to [Continue Reading…]
30 Minutes
In four and a half years of blogging, I have never written a post like this. It’s 8:29pm on Monday night, and I still haven’t written tomorrow’s (today’s) post. I’ve been working on other projects all day–finalizing my Etsy fall line, communicating with mentees, prepping our home for our friends who are visiting this weekend. When [Continue Reading…]
Why I Decided To Be A Stay-At-Home-Wife (With No Kids!)
This is a repost from the archives. Original posting date: August 14, 2015. I’m reposting this post because the decision explained here, however “weird” or unpopular, has singlehandedly shaped my husband and my lifestyle, marriage, and routine more than anything else in our life. Me not working in the traditional sense allows us freedom and simplicity that we [Continue Reading…]
Practical Ways To Practice Valuing Others
Assuming you haven’t been living under a rock, you know that our world is really hurting right now. Scary, heart-breaking news has been coming out with a frequency that makes me shudder. All this pain has continually shattered my heart–it’s an awful realization that there are many people who truly don’t value human life or see [Continue Reading…]
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