Over eight years of blogging, being honest and vulnerable with you, my reader, has been super important to me. I’ve never wanted to come across as a know-it-all or “do it like I do and you, too, can be perfect” type person. That makes me chuckle. Good thing …
Sometimes we find ourselves with too many evening activities and not enough quiet evenings at home. The kids get in bed later and later, and it starts to pull everyone into a vortex of exhaustion and fast-food dinners on the run. There are seasons when it can’t be …
Sometimes a girl’s gotta share what she loves. Gather round, here’s a random list of tried-and-true recommendations for stuff I love! Warning: this post won’t win any photography prizes. I’m sure it would have been better to take pictures in daylight on a staged background with soft lighting. …
Today’s post is a catchup message, to let you know what’s happening around here…. On Saturday we were waiting at the airport gate to board our flight home from Hawaii when my husband received a phone call that his dad had passed away. After a very long …
Funny thing about blogging. There are rules about how to write and what to say so that Google will like you. Your title should be a certain number of characters, and you should end the first paragraph with a keyword. Images should have alt tags (whatever those are) …
By the time you read this, chances are we’ve finished moving our daughter Gracie into the dorm at Southern Nazarene University. Yesterday was an emotional day for me. At lunchtime I rode with my husband to pick up some equipment and grab a quick burger at the drive-thru. …
Overwhelm can be paralyzing. Swirling thoughts of all we have to do can cause us to stop in our tracks rather than get started doing! For instance, if one of our “to do’s” is to write a blog post and newsletter, we might keep putting it off until we have …
Last month I turned 56 years old and four days later my Mom passed away. Birthdays are usually a time of reflection and evaluation for me, but that was especially true this year. Losing a loved one makes you think about priorities and evaluate your life. As part …
This post is one of my all-time favorites from the archives, about making memories with your children. It is even more poignant to me now that both of the boys in the story have left home for college. Since there are thousands more readers of This Lovely Place …
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