Letters to Jesus

This year what if instead of writing letters to Santa, we wrote prayers to Jesus. Maybe let’s try writing a Christmas prayer to Jesus. Let’s pour our heart and our belief into it. Let’s have the expectation that His desire is to grant us the petitions of our heart. We could even ask our families to join us. Let’s start a new tradition.

Uninhibited

Kids learn fear, self consciousness, and timidity and they turn into us — adults. This year, let’s get back to our truest, boldest, most confidence, bravest selves. Let’s live in our authenticity. Let’s boldly sing our song to the world. Who knows — just maybe they will sing along.

Giving Back God’s Gift

Today I ran out to pick up boxes for Christmas gifts. The lady at the register was mumbling softly as she checked me out about how she doesn’t do Christmas anymore. She said she stopped years ago when she realized the history. I still wasn’t quite following her. Trying to understand, I asked if it

From Thankful to Thoughtful

As we move into gifting season, be mindful not to simply scratch off people’s gifts like to-dos on a grocery list. Select thoughtful gifts. Gifts that speak to your loved ones truest selves. Give (gift) from your heart ❤ as Christ gave from his. Christmas is about love and love is kind and thoughtful.

What Gift Will You Share?

Not one of us was born without a gift to give the world. What is your gift? What gift will you share with world during this time?

Taking Time to Remember

Lately I have been writing about my journey as a mom of a teenage daughter but today as I wanted to take a little time to remember my first two daughters — Madisyn and Sariyah — who I loved but really never knew. Today mark’s the start of Pregnancy Loss Month. On September 23, 2013,

Congrats! It’s a Teenage Girl!

It has been about a month or so since my last post. We have been pretty busy. Last time I posted, I talked about purpose over preference. If you don’t remember, we have been wanting to adopt a 4-10 year old and God brought the possibility of a 14-year old into our life. That is

Bless the Blessed

It is a family joke that one of my Uncles said one holiday as the grace before dinner, “Bless the Blessed”.  It sounds so silly.  We laugh about it to this day.  What was he thinking if at all, we have all wondered.  Today, I thought of him.  Today, I wondered if I understood the

Will You Be My Valentine

Today (and everyday honestly), God wants us to love ourselves and see ourselves the way he sees us.  He wants us to love Him above anyone else on the planet. 

Hoarding

About 10 years ago the show Hoarders premiered.  This show really brought the concept of hoarding out to the surface.  This condition now had a name and a face; and with that we were starting to realize that these stories are not far fetched and out of reach — but rather within our own families