With my kids now ranging from 8 to 17, I’ve become more aware of just how precious these summers really are. We only get so many opportunities to create the kind of moments that become family stories, inside jokes, and core memories they’ll carry with them long after they’ve grown up. One thing I’ve learned […]
May 29, 2026
Yesterday’s Bible study with my two littles ended with all three of us in tears… and I knew I needed to share it with you. Each day for homeschool I put together a lesson plan that I walk through with them and yesterdays was on IDOLS—the little (or big) things that quietly try to take […]
November 13, 2025
I walked this beach today with my family — the same beach I used to walk many early mornings years ago when I initially lost my 1st home to foreclosure and had to move into a small apartment that a friend agreed to rent to me at a discount… the same beach that I would […]
February 15, 2020
FULL. CIRCLE. MOMENT. In the summer of 2013 I was a year into living in Chicago, IL (where I had moved to after spending my entire life within a 20 mi radius of my hometown of Clearwater, FL) I had left Florida for a FRESH START. I wanted to be known for my NEW life […]
October 10, 2019
I’ve received lots of requests to do a FAV THINGS list when it comes to NEWBORN BABY ESSENTIALS, and seeing as how I’ve had not one, but TWO babies in a 2 year period… I thought, ya know… I do have some hands on experience now to give solid advice! Haha! I talked it out […]
August 25, 2018
Can we talk about MOM-JUDGEMENT for a sec?! It is BY FAR the thing that gets under my skin the MOST right now! Listen peeps: There is a BIG DIFFERENCE between wanting to offer someone advice out of love based on your own experiences and criticizing someone because the way they choose to do it […]
January 7, 2017
