I feel you can never tell a child enough, how much they are loved. Lately when I have been telling Mazy “I love you” she replies with “lots.” The first time she said that, I chuckled. I wondered where in the world the “lots” came from, but then I realized that when I often say…
Before I got married, I remember multiple wise women saying, “when you know, you just know.” I always wondered how you “know” you are marrying the right person? Then I started dating Dan. We were two very different people, in multiple ways; though when we started to hang out, there was just this peace. A…
New chapters are often thrilling, filled with much anticipation and new beginnings. Dan, Mazy, and I now find ourselves at the end of a chapter of the story of our life, but are eager to open another chapter in the book God has already written for our life. We will be moving to Zeeland, Michigan…
If you have been a reader of my blog for a number of years, you have seen that this blog has taken a few different looks. You are probably wondering if I am ever going to just “stick” with something. Well no worries, I think and wonder the same thing! Though just like anything in…
The other day, Dan and I were getting Mazy all bundled up to head outside. Boots, snowpants, gloves, winter coat, hat, everything. As Mazy waited patiently for Dan and I to get our winter gear on as well, she looked up at her daddy and says “daddy outside too!” For some reason, that phrase just…
Over the past 4-5 years, I have done a lot of decluttering. I wouldn’t say that I was a hoarder before, but I rarely applied the rule of “one in, one out.” If I bought something new, I rarely got rid of the old. The first home we lived in did not have a…
