Recently we were at a birthday for some friends of ours and at the church there were a few slides for the kids. The shorter one Mazy went down right away, as long as I was right there to catch her at the bottom. It was just a straight down slide; nothing fancy. Then there…
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…
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…
I always love a good challenge. I feel like I often am challenging myself to change something or try something new. Though I feel like these challenges to myself only consist of things that effect me on this earth. Things that are a bit more tangible. Then there are the challenges of the heart. And…
