It feels so wild to me that I’m working on writing my daughter’s birth story while sitting in her room in the Hershey Medical Center PICU. She’s just over 2 weeks old and she’s spent more time on this medical floor that she has in her own home. In a lot of ways, its heartbreaking. This is never how we envisioned this season…

Never in my life have I been so drawn to miracles as I have been this past year. There has always been something special and empowering about moments in the Bible where God uses ordinary people for extraordinary things. But this year…

It has been ages (and I do actually mean ages) since I’ve sat down and written anything on here. I’ve done light journaling, loads on internal processing, but for some reason, every time I contemplated sitting down to put my thoughts somewhere for people to read, I felt stuck. But…

Every year, I get the week between Christmas and New Year’s off from work. Leading up to this break, I make a list of all of the areas of my house and my life that have been neglected and need a little extra attention.

Each year, we send out Christmas cards with a short “year in review” included on the back. The practice of hitting “pause” and summarizing our year in a short paragraph has been an important practice for me.

I’m embarrassed to say that the last time I wrote on here was August…AUGUST PEOPLE!! Somehow or another I went from “regular” writing to skipping weeks and months at a time. I just isn’t right, but it is my reality

Last night I did something I haven’t done for a long time.  I stayed up late writing.  It feels like its been ages since I’ve allowed myself the time to sit in front of an open page, with no prompts or deadlines, and instead search inward…

You may not know this about us, but Dillon and I are both the products of family-owned businesses. Dillon’s family owns Sider Brother Builders, and my Mom, Aunt, and Grandma have all been business owners and one point or another…

Typically, I find that when I go a significant amount of time without writing, it’s usually because my feelings are just all blocked up and I know that if I begin the process of sifting through them for words to share,

Since we got married in 2015, we have lived in a total of 5 places. We lived in Kitchener, Ontario, in a little house owned by our church. Then we had a 6-month season where Dillon lived near his hometown in Canada