Rachel Hollis is an incredible role model with many accomplishments: wife, mother, author, blogger, business owner, marathoner – just to name a few. This year I read her book and saw her documentary and become even more enthralled with the messages she seeks to share with the world through the life she chooses to live. … More Just Keep Showing Up
It is human nature to wonder if you will live your life to the fullest. Do we choose the right passions? Surround ourselves with the right people? Select the correct career? Spend our most valuable resources: time, money and energy on the right things? Will we leave the world better than we found it? Claire … More Rest in Peace Claire Wineland
Hello Friends and welcome to August! Yes its true we are heading into the end of the summer – how the heck did that happen? For us over here it has been a harder summer in some ways and I am grateful for the freshness that a new month brings. But also with the flip … More Health*Wealth*Happiness
Today we honor our 8th wedding anniversary and 4th blog anniversary. To date my greatest accomplishment has been my marriage. It is a source of incredible joy, a wealth of trial and error, and proof that God meets us in the middle of the mess and can make it truly beautiful. Blogging was a dream … More July 17, 2018
There is something about July that makes me feel more alive. Perhaps because I love summer days and spend as much time as I can in the sun, enjoying the blue skies, and taking in some of the most beautiful scenes (hopefully accompanied by water of some kind) our world can offer. Or maybe its … More July 2018
This weekend we were invited to share our story at the Children Organ Transplant Association (COTA) Miracle Maker Event. COTA is the the not for profit organization we worked with for Danny’s transplant fund. They are amazing and will be getting their own post, but the most important thing to know is they have changed … More CF Does Define Us & We Are Blessed
13 Years and the fun still hasn’t run out…. Today we celebrate 13 Years of dating and if you have been around here before you may recognize this phrase…. the summer of 2005 Danny and I grabbed lunch while I was home from college. We had a good time, but I didn’t think it was … More 13 Years and the Fun Hasn’t Run Out
We live in a world where the human experience is on display more than ever before. The access to each other’s lives is through ways that never used to exist, thus the way we speak to each other’s lives is also much more prevalent. All sorts of issues that used to be left to “better … More Honesty Holds the Power for Change
You never know what someone is going through unless you take a walk in their shoes….because what you might find is a harder existence than you expected…. even designer brand shoes. Yesterday we learned of Kate Spade’s passing by suicide. Over the past couple of years I have spent an unbelieveable amount of time studying … More Kate Spade Rest in Peace
Old school Catholics or maybe just old school people in general can often view anxiety as a made up thing. You know in our world of soy lattes and phones in our pocket that have stronger computer power than the first computer’s used to send a rocket to space – we have way too much … More Anxiety is Real Just Like God
