As many of you may or may not remember, on top of having had a child born with life threatening medical issues that we still fight today, in the year 2008 our family’s very livelihood was threatened.  I was pretty proud of us.  We had married young, been through ALL this with Kyleigh and we [...]

I used to be the person who had it all.  The new car, the big house, the white picket fence (er… chain link fence)… I used to think that having and doing is what made you a “success” in life.  I was the person who had a NEED to achieve and accomplish anything that I [...]

What has faith done for you?  Its a simple question that I will venture to guess would have a lengthy answer from anyone you pose it to.  If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time you know that faith plays a big part in my life.  You know that i believe [...]

We all do it. We hide. Hide from problems and confrontations in life. We make things out to be a bigger deal than they have to be. We stress ourselves out worrying about things that may or may not even be. We hide from so many thing. We hide from sadness, anger, weakness. We put [...]

OK so even with my “brilliant” planning the holidays are sneaking up faster than I want them too!  Is it stupid to wish that we had Christmas all year long?  I would totally vote for that bill!  As for me… I am getting ready!  The black friday ads are starting to leak out on the [...]

I have to say that my biggest fear in life has always been failure.  I am always afraid that I am going to let someone down so I hold myself to these standards that are impossible to achieve.  I am a hopeless perfectionist.  I want things to be perfect but the sad fact is that [...]

I took this photo at one of our fall weddings this year.  I looked up through this perfect sunset and there Troy was in perfect silhouette.  It brought tears to my eyes… I am not usually one to get emotional over that kind of stuff.  I think all too often, when you are married for [...]