Double your joy this holiday season by purchasing awesome presents that are also gifts that give back! This post has tons of cute ideas to help! I am often completely overwhelmed by the amount of need in the world. From right in my backyard to countries on the other side of the earth, there are...

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This past week I had the privilege of traveling to South America with World Vision to see how they’ve been working with communities in Ecuador and witness their new #chosen initiative at work firsthand. I can definitively say that my life has been changed by getting to meet so many amazing people in Ecuador. I...

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Over the past few months I, like many others, have become fascinated by the Enneagram. I am always intrigued by personality frameworks anyway, but the Enneagram seems particularly spot on, and I’ve gleaned so much insight about myself and my loved ones. Donnie, for example, is an Enneagram type 5, known as “The Investigator.” Suddenly...

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Hey, friends! We are taking some time off from projects this week because we’re working on fixing up some technical-ish things behind the scenes, but I still wanted to pop in and talk about something that’s been on my heart a lot lately… I think that as women, so many of us are natural “fixers,”...

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So I realize that that title of this post isn’t as uplifting or encouraging as “5 Easy Steps to Crush All of Your Goals This Year!” or something like that, but I’ve had something on my heart recently that I’ve sort of felt compelled to share. I always feel like these posts come out kind...

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Oh hey there, sweet friends! I kind of feel like I need to re-introduce myself around here after my recent blogging hiatus! Actually, things may have seemed fairly normal at the front end of things– posts still went out on the blog and social media, emails were sent, updates were made. But behind the scenes...

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Well, it’s almost time. Tomorrow (Friday, March 31, 2017) is surgery day. I’ve known this day was coming for about 12 years now, but still, I don’t know that it has really quite fully hit me that it’s actually here. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, let me give you a quick(ish)...

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This past December, Donnie and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. First of all, how am I old enough to have been married for 10 years?! (In my defense, I was 22 when we got married. 🙂 ) And second, wow, how time flies! Babies! When you get married two days before Christmas, it doesn’t...

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Hey there, friends! If you came to the blog today looking for organization or home decor or blogging ideas, I apologize that you’ll probably be disappointed. (But I promise that I’ll be back next week with lots of fun projects!) It’s been a little while since I’ve done a life/health update post, and since there have...

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Happy 2017, friends! I can hardly believe it’s time for the “best of” post for 2016 already– I feel like this year just flew by! And what’s more, as of yesterday I have officially been blogging for 4 years. Wow. It’s hard to believe how far this little blog has come since those first few posts...

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