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Hard to believe that school is just around the corner! For some, this may already be a fleeting thought since your kids are in school already! This is a series I did a year ago, but thought it would still apply, as the stress around school always happens it seems, no matter what year it…
As a blogger, something I pray for, is that other women and other readers will feel valued, understood, related to, and loved. I don’t always know how to accomplish this, but this is something I pray for. Yes, I even pray about blogging. It makes my heart drip with tears to think that there are…
Here we go…another week in quarantine! Anybody else feel like this is getting old? In fact, Mazy really let me know how she feels about all of this the other day: We were in the van and I told her that when I dropped her off, I wouldn’t be staying. Her exact words, with a…
My husband is out deer hunting for the weekend! He was so eager to get out into the woods – I personally don’t share the same excitement for sitting in the cold, but I do share the same excitement for nature! This is a pretty typical sight for Dan. Now hopefully this “sight” will also…
I had all these grand ideas of how I was going to be the perfect stay-at-home-mom. As much as didn’t/don’t want to admit it, we go into parenthood with expectations. I made the mistake of telling Dan that I didn’t really have any expectations, but the more I thought about it, I so did! I…
So what’s been up with the Sterks? We are almost done with our boat! We just have to carpet it, which we are waiting for (the carpet that is). We keep getting the run around with the store, but nevertheless, it’ll get done – at some point. We are just so excited to take more…