What Would You Like More Of?

January 4, 2025January 4, 2025

With a new year upon us, I want to check in with YOU!

If you wouldn’t mind, please comment below or send me an email with what you would like to read more of on the blog.

Faith encouragement
Renewing your mind
Health journey
Health/low-tox living and eating
Marriage
Family
Organizing
Other??

I’d love to hear from YOU! As much as my blog is a journal in a way, I also want to share what connects with your heart and life. If I can encourage you in any way, please let me know!

Follow Hard

Yesterday I had a routine heart appointment at the U of M. It wasn’t one of those abrupt back-to-Michigan runs that we have become accustomed to, but one that was in the books two months ago. I say all that because this past year has been filled with abrupt happenings so I wanted to be…

Fundraising: Dock-Style

The past 3 Saturdays have become a new “normal” for us in the spring and fall. The biggest fundraiser that our youth group does is take out docks/boat lifts for various people, on various lakes. Moving out to Minnesota, I hadn’t really heard much about this “job.” Living near Lake Michigan, the docks were permanent,…

Conquer Mealtime Stress In 2018

If “eat healthier” has been on your list of resolutions for, say, the last 10 years without success (or you’ve recently fallen off the healthy-eating wagon – again!), you might feel like throwing in the towel for 2018. Don’t give up yet. Feeding your family healthy meals in a doable way does NOT have to…

Recognizing God’s Voice

We have developed a completely new vocabulary, living with a toddler. One that usually makes no sense to anyone else but us, yet a vocab that has taught me far greater than new words. Let me share just a few: Sup-pa = pizza Amen = when she’s done reading a book gawk = milk George…

10 DAYS OF GRATITUDE – Day 2

Life is all about seasons. Some feel more like the gloomy days of winter, while others feel like the perfection of a sun-kissed summer day. I would say since we moved back to Michigan in 2017, it has at times, felt like some long years of winter. If it isn’t my heart, it’s cancer. This…

Gratitude Turns What You Have Into Enough

The sign above, hangs in our dining room, that we refer to often. It helps us as a family, keep life in perspective. For this is being thankful – appreciating what God has already given us to be stewards over, and seeing it as enough. This past week in youth group, Dan had the kids…