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Thank you to the makers of 5-hour™ TEA shots for sponsoring this post. The last seven months of my life have been incredibly transformational. It all started a year ago, when I restarted my yoga practice in February of 2018. For me, yoga is a game-changer. It provides me with a completely different way of…
I can’t believe that my baby girl turns 4 this month! Can someone please explain how that happened? Because I swear it was just yesterday that we were celebrating her 2nd birthday… I have no idea how it happened, but I do know that we will be celebrating my sweet, spirited girl all month. We…
There is a Japanese phrase, “Shikata ga nai.” It translates too, “It cannot be helped.” I came across it for the first time about a decade ago when I read Snow Falling on Cedars for the first time. It seared into my mind like an iron brand and has remained there. The Japanese use this…
Marina and I had a little impromptu photo shoot this week. I love these snaps so much because they capture her silly spirit so perfectly. She really is such a goof ball and it cracks me up. I know that I say it a lot, but she is so different than me. My entire life…
Hello and happy February, friends! Things are good around here. We’ve been going through lots of big changes… but what else is new, right? We’ve been through so much transition these last few years. I’m sure you’ve probably come to expect that from me at this point. Still, I am hoping that these recent changes…
Sometime in the last month, Roman started to read. Of all of the miraculous things I have witnessed in my time as his mother, this has perhaps been the most amazing. Somehow, I have always struggled to imagine that tremendous leap that occurs when a child goes from not reading to reading. It is the…
Over the course of the last year, my relationship with anxiety has shifted dramatically. For the most part, my anxiety is no longer running the show. I am so aware of it and I have made so much peace with it. I understand that it is a part of who I am. I understand why…
2015: Survive 2016: Bravery 2017: Strength 2018: Build 2019: Abundance My words of the year, these last five years, tell a story. My story of surviving, of bravery, of strength, of rebuilding, and of — at last — thriving in the abundance that God has provided for me. The other day I was digging through…