Marriage, as I’ve experienced it, is a delicate dance. Giving and taking, pushing and pulling, asking and receiving. It’s slowly, slowly, slowly melding two worlds and lives into one and compromising all along the way. After my husband Riley and I got married last summer, we moved in together for the first time. This change was [Continue Reading…]
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23 Encouraging Ways to Respond to Big News (Instead of “I Could Never Do That”)
It bothers me when someone says “I could never do that” in response to a person sharing about a major life change, yet this seems to be the standard response. For example, “I’m going away for school.” “I hope that turns out okay; I could never do that.” Or, “We’ve decided to adopt a child.” “Oh, I [Continue Reading…]
9 Months Into Marriage: Cultivating Laughter
This post is the third installment in my series of quarterly first-year-of-marriage posts. You can read 3 Months Into Marriage: Finding our Rhythm as a Couple and 6 Months Into Marriage: Creating Overlap or check out all of my wedding and marriage posts here. This post was meant to go live a couple of weeks [Continue Reading…]
4 Simple Ways To Make Mother’s Day Special This Year
Mother’s Day is tomorrow! If you haven’t already thought about how you’ll celebrate your mom, your mother-in-law, your mama friends, your grandmothers, your aunts, or your so-close-they-may-as-well-be-your-moms, now is the time! Holidays like Mother’s Day don’t have to be expensive or elaborate to be meaningful and heartfelt. Today I’m sharing four simple ways to make Mother’s [Continue Reading…]
9 Ways To Prepare To Be a Bridesmaid
This week, I fly to Maryland to celebrate holy matrimony with my sweet childhood friend, Olivia! She and I have known each other since we were six years old; she stood by me in my wedding last summer, and I’ll stand by her this Friday. Everyone should have an Olivia. Friendships steeped in time are [Continue Reading…]
Practical Ways To Be a Thoughtful Wife
Today is part two of a two-part mini-series on being a thoughtful wife in collaboration with Hannah from Just Bee! (Read part one here.) Hannah is a lovely blogger, teacher, wife, and believer who writes from rural Minnesota. Today, both Hannah and I are sharing some practical and implementable ways to love your husband and live out [Continue Reading…]
On Being a Thoughtful Wife
Today is part one of a two-part mini-series on being a thoughtful wife in collaboration with Hannah from Just Bee! Hannah is a lovely blogger, teacher, wife, and believer who writes from rural Minnesota. Today, both Hannah and I are sharing what being a thoughtful wife means to us; next Thursday, we’re each sharing some [Continue Reading…]
Here’s Exactly How Stitch Fix Works From Start To Finish
I’ve mentioned Stitch Fix several times here on my blog, and each time, I’ve been met with questions about it and requests to explain and review it. I’ve been Stitch-Fixing for three years, but I remember having lots of questions and wondering what real women actually thought about it before I signed up myself. Today, I’m [Continue Reading…]
Enough Is Enough
My husband and I have been married for almost seven months and I’ve experienced more emotional whiplash in that period of time than ever before in my life. Moving away from a tight-knit community is hard. Being married can be challenging. Until two weeks ago, we hadn’t been able to find a home, though we were [Continue Reading…]
Everything You Need To Know If You’ll Be a Camp Counselor This Summer
It’s a crazy story how I ended up working as a camp counselor the summer after my sophomore year of college. You can read the full, detailed story here, but here’s the short version: I’d already committed to a summer job when I had a vivid dream that I was meant to be a camp counselor, [Continue Reading…]
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