Welcome to the second day of #LoveBlog! Today’s prompt is Best Friends. You can find the rest of the prompts from when I first announced this challenge. This post is sponsored by FTD Flowers for their #ILookToHer campaign. Edit 02/20/2016: I received a flower delivery on February 12th to share with my best friend. In yesterday’s… [Read More]
The 5 Love Languages: Tell Me You Love Me
Welcome to the first day of #LoveBlog! Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. I use affiliate links in this post. Read my disclosure for details. I was a college student when I first discovered The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman. My roommate/best friend Rachel had bought the… [Read More]
New Year, New Start // Here’s to 2016!
2015 was certainly a tumultuous year. Dan first moved to Georgia in January, and I followed in March. I left my job in May. I struggled with my Crohn’s Disease and started new treatments in June. Worst of all, my wonderful mother died in July from brain cancer. But 2015 wasn’t all bad. I was… [Read More]
13 Lessons My Mother Taught Me about Womanhood
A year ago today, my husband and I skyped with my parents, my brothers, and my sister-in-law to celebrate my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary and my mother’s 60th birthday. To honor my parents, I wrote one of my most popular posts to date: 30 Lessons My Parents Taught Me about Marriage. During the celebratory skype… [Read More]
Brokenness and Grief
I feel broken. I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s like part of me broke the day my mom died, and I haven’t figured out how to fix it yet. I’m lost. I’m confused. I’m scared. For the last four days, I haven’t managed to wake up until 9am or later. I haven’t… [Read More]
Thankful Thursday: Women Supporting Women
Woohoo, it’s another week of Thankful Thursday! I loved reading all of your posts last week. This week, I want to focus my gratitude on: Smelling sweet cinnamon and warm clove. Last year, Dan and I bought an owl-shaped wax warmer on clearance. We both love it! We often stock up on scented wax cubes… [Read More]