Tag Archives: thankful

I have had an unusually busy time at work for the past couple of months. While thinking about work/life balance and experiencing mom guilt is something I am familiar with, it seems like lately I have ...

Wow, I hope you were as encouraged as I was over the last few days as we received message after message reminding us of the incredible opportunity, we have to reclaim Joy in the finals months of this ...

There are plenty of Bible verses that talk about thanksgiving (there's 71 verses in the New Testament alone), so apparently being thankful is pretty important. And, sometimes ... well, I don't want to...

"I want to forgive you. And I want to forget you." If you ever found yourself years ago caught up watching the drama filled tv show, The Hills, you would recall this famous line from Lauren Conrad. An...

I am not a gardener by any means but I love flowers, what woman doesn't. I so badly wanted to learn how to grow my own flowers. I have a friend that gave me Dahlia tubers and instructed me how and whe...

I love to travel. Growing up, our family didn't have a ton of money leftover in the budget for traveling, but my mom's cousin and her husband had a condo in Colorado that they let us use. It allowed u...

I almost missed it because I was looking at my phone. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a tarp, dirty and paint-splattered. Curious, I looked up, and saw a marvelous mural going up in Edmonds. An...

As she was lying down in the hospital bed, my daughter, Trissy, began laughing as she said, "Well mom. This is a September to Remember." We began reminiscing about our conversation we had a few days b...

What does it take to stir you up? One newscast. A day with double-booked work/school Zoom meetings. Those moments where you miss things that "used to be" with a deep heart longing into tears and then ...

Towards the end of 2019, I got to walk down the aisle and marry my best friend. It was one of the greatest days, committing our marriage to Christ and saying 'forever' to what lay ahead. We didn't exp...