By nature, I’m a tidy person. Basically, if you come over to my house, 95% of it will look great 95% of the time . . . until you open a drawer. The cluttery mess of tangled cords, toothbrushes and underwear is a dead giveaway that I shove stuff into dark corners to keep my… Read More Why Your House Doesn’t Stay Organized (And What to Do About It)
Has budgeting never worked for you? It never worked for me. It felt like I was in handcuffs, and unable to enjoy life as I was living it. I’m not one of those people that wants to scrimp my pennies away until retirement . . . I want to live big now, enjoy life now,… Read More My Top 3 Budgeting Tips
Here’s the deal. I’ve tried meal planning . . . a lot. A lot of different methods, a lot of different ways, and you know what? They were all-consuming, complicated, and I never stuck with them for more than a day. It felt like a full-time job!!! Until now. Some of the big reasons this… Read More My Quick, Easy Meal Planning Method
Katie and I had just started with our practical preparation for the arrival of our first child. We were less than 3 weeks away from our due-date. Katie cleaned and organized our spare bedroom on Monday, cleaned the bathrooms on Tuesday, and organized the kitchen on Wednesday. We had plans to shop for supplies on… Read More The Birth Story: From the Father’s Perspective
It seems like just yesterday I was blinking my eyes rapidly and hyperventilating at the glowing digital “yes” staring back at me. Yet, here I am, 8 1/2 months pregnant, strangely attached to the bowling ball bump that makes it difficult to bend over without passing out. Nothing seems more natural than getting little kicks and jabs… Read More 5 Things I Learned Being Pregnant
I wasn’t a particularly bad kid. I mean, I snuck under the bed and opened all my birthday presents before the party, I convinced my sisters they were adopted, and I got punished ten times one night for doing the same thing, but that was no reason for my own body to turn against me. At… Read More What a Perfectionist Can Learn From a Bald 4-Year-Old Girl
Chipped, Cracked and Broken. So, I don’t share many of my songs, but when I discovered this rough and vulnerable voice memo from last year, I felt nostalgic about when I was still living at home. **Forgive the glitches, okay? It’s from the heart, and sometimes the heart isn’t in tune . . . At that time,… Read More Chipped, Cracked, & Broken: A Song
I’m a new wife. Very new. So why am I writing about wife-hood, when there are so many more qualified women to share? Women who have stood by their husbands through storms and walked with their husbands through hell, women who have supported their men and made them great, women who have devoted their lives to… Read More Does the “Honeymoon Stage” Leave Us, or Do We Leave the “Honeymoon Stage?”
We might as well face it, long-distance relationships are tough. However, there is good news. Long-distance relationships can massively strengthen and deepen the bond you and your partner have. So, before you go around saying someone is “geographically undesirable,” here’s five lessons my long-distance relationship taught me (and, if we’re honest here, my husband was desirable regardless of… Read More 5 Things I Learned in Our Long-Distance Relationship
Good news. The Tale Of My First Love, did not END in a breakup… “Just Friends” Soon after ending things, Elisha and I entered “real” relationships where we began to experience the security, happiness, and good vibes that one’s notorious other (usually) gives. We bumped shoulders a couple times, but we didn’t talk much, and it was never… Read More I’m Getting Married!!!