Choose Joy!

Here are some things to be happy about today: God is still in control! You woke up today! Yay! Good job! Spring! Winter has passed, and soon the weather will warm back up. Close your eyes for just a minute. 250 babies were born in that time! There are over 1000 flavors of ice cream. About 6,000…

All Things Fall

I love, love, love, love fall. And it's just around the corner (or so I keep telling myself on these outrageously hot days). It's my second favorite season (number one being winter, of course). I find it hard not to appreciate fall in a world that's "fall-crazy." No joking, I saw ads for pumpkin spice…

To Have and to Hold

On Tuesday, Miguel and I celebrated three years of marriage. In the grand scheme of things, that doesn't seem like a lot. We've lived a lot more life than that, and we will, Lord willing, live a lot more life. But upon further reflection three years is quite an accomplishment, I think. I made a…

The Coolest Grandma in the World

I've been working really hard to remember to call my family more often. It used to be months before I talked with someone, and that's just not great. Especially my grandma. Lately, I've been calling her almost every two weeks, if not two, than three. See, my grandma is amazing and wonderful. Grandma just turned…

Mother’s Day

Mother's Day is a day to appreciate my amazing and wonderful mother. But it's also a day to appreciate being a mother. The moment God gave me a child, I became a mother. And I have three children. I never held the first two children, but they will forever be my children, and I felt, for…

The Best Dog in the Whole World

When I was in high school, we (my mom and the kids) convinced Dad to let us get a new dog. We had to put down our precious yellow lab, K.T., and it was really sad and lonely without a dog running around. So we went to the pound. And everyone fell in love with…

The one who views my every post

I say that it doesn't matter if no one is reading my blog posts because the goal is to write for myself first. If I'm writing for me, why should I care if no one sees what I write? However, I can't help the little warm feeling I get in my tummy when someone says,…

2018 Review

I took holiday break from the blog, so it's been about two weeks since my last post. Those two weeks were spent with family and friends, celebrating the birth of Jesus and the close of 2018. I thought, like many others before me, that it would be helpful for me to take time and review…

My Pa

I wrote a post on my ma earlier this year, and I wanted to also write one on my dad. He might not read my blog, but the world (at least the small sector that reads this) should know how awesome my dad is. First of all, my dad is basically the epitome of a…

My Thanksgiving Break

I meant to write this post sooner, but things came up, so I'm just now getting to the point where I can share about my Thanksgiving break. For the first time in five years, I got to go back to my parents' house for Thanksgiving. I was so excited to get to see all three…