Month: January 2021

My 47th Birthday

My 47th Birthday

I had no idea when I blissfully took my big-balloon birthday photo last year to celebrate my 46th trip around the sun that the days that were about to follow would be the hardest ones of my life. I’m tempted to say the worst, but I can’t. They were also the greatest gift. For all […]

2021 Word of the Year

lover la 2021 word of the year

Have you ever chosen a “Word of the Year” before? I haven’t. This is my first time. Through the years I’ve made New Year’s resolutions, set goals and intentions, and saved many dream and vision boards on Pinterest, but in reality, most of those practices just turned out to be little ceremonies in of themselves […]

The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

 My heart is heavy. Even with the glow of the January sun pouring through the window—because it’s the only friend we can welcome inside. Even with my little darling reading Joanna Gaines’s beautiful, new book The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be—because now she’ll be reading from home this week with her preschool […]

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