Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from 2017

To You, I Vow.

{ 5 YEARS }    60 months, 260 weeks, 1,827 days, 43,848 hours, 2,630,880 minutes...you get the gist!   There are days it feels like just yesterday the doors to the cathedral opened & I saw you waiting at the alter for me...Then there are days like today, when I calculate those numbers & see the mileage our marriage has on it...It feels as though we've been married a lifetime already.   How does one truly articulate what that many days, months & years has meant, in a single post? I don't know that you can...but you know me, I have to try.  Looking back on these last 5 years, we've experienced a lot together! And I can't help but see the Lords faithful hand in all of it (whether we saw/felt it at in moment...looking back, it's so evident)! We've lived in 2 states, 5 cities/towns/villages, 2 apartments, 2 homes, lived with the your parents for a spell, they've lived with us (twice, ha!), my sister's lived with us, we've wor...

I've Got That Favor

Today marked the 1st day & beginning of BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!  (Ok, let's be real...since I was born on the 5th....birthday "month" only lasts 5 days..haha) & I've already been so blessed! This morning, a friend blessed me with an hour long massage. Then shortly after coming home, Hayden brought a package in with the mail, from my sweet neighbor & friend. Inside, I found a pair of LuLaRoe leggings I've been wanting and have had my eye on for months - just wasn't at a place, financially, to indulge! "Gifts" is one of my dominant love languages. I love both giving & receiving gifts. I used to feel weird and uncomfortable about the receiving part of that. As I've gotten older, I've realized that often times gifts can communicate things on a deeper level than materialism. Gifts, to me, are an outward expression of something happening inwardly. When someone gives me a gift, whether it was purchased, hand-made, or something so simple ...