Our favorite Christmas season tradition is celebrating Advent as a family. In particular, our family loves hosting advent on Sunday nights in the driveway. It’s a great outreach opportunity, a sweet way to gather friends together, and an intentional moment disciple our children. I have put together a simple guide that includes instructions, a quick […]
As I surpassed 48,000 words last night, the irony hit me. In the most neurologically and cognitively challenging year of my life, the Lord propelled me to write a book. Truly He gets the glory.I don’t know what He’s going to do with it yet, but the first manuscript of Abide is almost written. I’ve
When we moved into our rental, our landlord called the back part of the yard “no man’s land“. It was a mess, filled with years of rotting grass clippings, dog poop from the previous renters, and tangles of blackberry brambles. Charlie has helped me to tame it and craft it into a lovely space now.
After 33 years of selfless service to the United States Air Force, we retired my dad on June 1st. It’s a lot to process: How proud I am of my father and his reliance on Jesus through this journey.The fact that this military journey—which has made up my entire life so far—has finally come to
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Took these as gifts for family. Meant to post on Mother’s Day. Grateful to Jesus and Charlie to have these shots—It’s hard to wrangle your own kids as a photographer. 😂 Baby Kates wasn’t having it. On a side note: I’m getting more serious about getting the first draft of my book hammered out. I’m
The sweetest surprise this spring: God placed us on a street with glorious cherry blossom trees lining it. We couldn’t see it in the winter, but as spring slowly emerges, what beautiful things He has had already in store. May I entrust Him to do the same lovely wonders in my life. And I’m also
PRAISING Jesus for finally getting answers on my health! Our curly girly gets into everything now, and doesn’t like me telling her no or redirecting her. 😂 In a similar vein, she has NOT appreciated the weaning process. Prayerfully we will have that finished by the end of this week so I can start the
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2023 goals: ✨Short captions pointing to Jesus. ✨Channel writing energy into a book. I struggled in young adulthood, WANTING to grow closer to Jesus, but struggling to figure out tangibly what that looked like. The last decade has held a lot of joys in Jesus and a lot of suffering, trials, and opportunities to trust
Only read if you’re ready to ramble and come back around: I have spent all week in my bed, running high grade fevers on and off, face feeling like it’s being crushed between two heavy metal plates… all due to some dumb sinus infection. I started to tell Charlie today–I don’t have time for this!
At 8 months you still couldn’t crawl. I was sure you would be crawling all over by then! You held your head up just a few hours after you were born, you could roll over front AND back by two and a half months, you’ve been a little wiggle worm from the beginning. By three months you were
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