2023: Humility My word of the year for 2023 is humility. Over the course of the last several years my word or theme of the year has had a profound influence and so my selection process has grown even more purposeful with each year since the first word in 2019. Recently I heard the concept … More 2023: Humility
This weekend I participated in the second Advent Retreat hosted by Mother and Home, an online Catholic Women’s Community. Last year following this event I had a distinctly new view on God as my Father and my perspective for life ahead in 2022. A perspective that ultimately made it to my left wrist with my … More What Does It Mean to Believe?
Hi friends, meet our newest family member Oliver! He is a little rescue puppy who is primarily Blue Heeler with the sweetest eyes, the funniest floppy ears, and a HUGE heart. We welcomed him home with us mid-June and just like that Shannon and I’s little girl gang expanded by one little boy with four … More Meet Oliver!
It has been a year since I started this project with the first letter. I have thought about it over and over again – do I keep going? Is this a story you will want to hear? Is it a story I should even tell? I have I had sitting in drafts since the spring letter #2 and I have never hit publish. But here we are – a year to the day and I still feel strongly about writing it. … More Dear Shannon Letter 2
This week Shannon and I join my family and head to Chicago for my brother’s wedding. This special day has been in the works since 2019 and it is really exciting that we will finally be able to celebrate. Our family’s original travel plans were made in the fall of 2019 while Danny and I … More Life Blows Us to The Windy City
In this moment I am looking forward and feeling positive about what this 37th year may hold, even if I have no idea! Getting to this point has been the result of three distinct messages. … More Thirty-Seven
Happy 2nd Birthday my sweet girl! Today as you turn two and tomorrow we celebrate the year anniversary of your Baptism into our beautiful faith, it is safe to say I am spending a lot of time traveling down memory lane. As I walk that road, I have wondered what message I want to save … More Happy 2nd Birthday Shannon!
When Danny and I started our journey to kids the original route was adoption. My daydreaming was consumed with a girl that could sing. I think it was the way my mind and heart were processing the idea that a non-genetic connection could produce a whole new set of talents to our family. Then when … More Shannon Sings
My relationship with COVID has been complicated from the start. January 2020: Pouring my 7 month pregnant self into an Uber at John’s Hopkins to go back to my hotel (where I was living while my husband lived {if you can call it that} in the hospital), while dragging a new work bag with wheels … More My Tango with COVID
Dear Shannon, this story starts when I am very young and learn the power of possibility. … More Dear Shannon Letter 1
Have A Little Faith in We 