a lifestyle blog
a lifestyle blog
Skincare has been a beast over the past decade. It really started about back in those tender high school years, you know when you’re desperate for acceptance, and let’s just say, teenage acne was not so nice to me. Eventually,…
I don’t know about you, but for me, January gets a little complicated. There’s the festivities and the hustle and bustle of New Year’s parties, and then there’s the New Year’s resolutions of losing 10 pounds and adding this 8…
I have grown to love watching our story unfold. Building a legacy of trusting God even in the dark, building a faith even of the smallest size, and loving even in the hard and messy. I choose this life, all…
It all started with a spontaneous hug after a group outing that caught us both so off guard and it left my head spinning in circles. That was the moment I knew he was mine. If you had told me…
Ocean waves and deep thoughts. I wonder how it all comes together. Every little piece of this story. The beautifully hard moments. The push and the pull. The seen and the unseen. The successes and the failures. The beautiful and…
I love words and deep thoughts and connecting the dots and pretty diagrams. It’s no wonder I love books too. The endless possibilities and stories they tell, and wisdom they can give. In this blog post, I rounded up my…
Summer has flown by, and now we find ourselves on the doorstep of a new school year. As the summer days begin to fade into fall, and the days feel a little more busy; I hope I will still slow…
I hope you have the courage to start again. One ending is often a new beginning – a new season, a new dream, or perhaps a new perspective. On the ending side, it can feel like a failure, like maybe…
I wish I could go back and tell the seventeen year old me I loved her. I wish that I could acknowledge everything she was carrying. I wish I could stop picking her apart and remind her of her strength…
What happens when the title leaves you disappointed? I got it. I had the title. I had the badge. I had the papers. I even had the t-shirt. Yet, I still felt like something was missing. It had all lined…
It hurts like hell. I think about you all the time. Everything I do, I used to do it all for you. Now I’m learning to do it for me, because life keeps moving. It doesn’t give me time to…
I heard this analogy recently and absolutely loved it. “Like a fine gold chain that’s gotten tangled, you may have some things to untangle, but they don’t diminish your value. You’re still pure gold, tangled or not.” I love the…
2022. I am so grateful for this past year. A mix of highs and lows. Discovering more of who I am, where I thrive, where I struggle, what my values are, and how I live that out. At the beginning…
