Welcome to the eleventh day of the 2018 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Tradition. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Boundaries. This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Dan and I haven’t created many traditions yet, nor have we adopted many traditions from our respective families. In fact, I can think of only one tradition we started ourselves, and one tradition we’ve… [Read More]
13 Ways to Celebrate Your Marriage Throughout the Year
Welcome to the eighth day of the 2018 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Celebration. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for Friday’s topic, Wellness. This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Next month, Dan and I will celebrate our fourth wedding anniversary! It seems like just yesterday we were still in a long-distance relationship, and now we’ve been living together for four wonderful years. Last… [Read More]
10 Physical Touch Love Language Ideas
Welcome to the first day of the 2018 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is The 5 Love Languages (Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Receiving Gifts, Quality Time, Physical Touch). Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. This post contains affiliate links. This is the third year I’ve hosted my annual Love Blog Challenge. This is also the third year I’ve used The 5 Love Languages as a prompt. In fact, during… [Read More]
Get Ready for Love Blog Challenge, a Daily Blog Link-up
I’m so excited to announce the third annual Love Blog Challenge! This daily blog link-up has been quite the success the last two years, and I’m thrilled to continue it. Many bloggers from the inaugural link-up returned for the second one. Plus new bloggers got involved! More bloggers co-hosted, and multiple brands sponsored an epic giveaway. Looking at my inlinkz analytics, most link-ups received at least 600 page views between my blog and the co-hosts’… [Read More]
A Toast to Madison and Mikey
Happy anniversary to my best friend Madison and her husband Mikey! On this day last year, a beautiful spring day in Myrtle Beach, I stood with my best friend Kimi and two other high school friends as we watched Madison and Mikey start their lives together as wife and husband. Kimi and Madison go way back, like to elementary school. Kimi introduced me to Madison sometime our sophomore year, and within a year, the three… [Read More]
How Long Distance Can Strengthen Your Relationship (Guest Post by Jennifer)
I’m so excited to start sharing more guest posts again, starting with this blog post on long-distance relationships. But I’m not on vacation in Paris for two weeks, so why do I need so many guest posts? If you read my latest Monthly Goals post, or if you follow me on social media, then you know that Dan and I just bought a house! Yay! Which also we moved about an hour from Duluth to… [Read More]