Once when I was a kid, the children's ministry at my church performed the musical, "Fat Fat Jehoshaphat." My dear friend Laura Parker always got the leads in the plays because she could sing like a nightingale. I on the other hand....well....couldn't. So in "Fat Fat Jehoshaphat," I was cast as the scribe. Apparently discontented with being just a scribe, I decided to jazz … [Read more...]
I’m Going to Africa!
For several months now, I've heard the Lord whispering "Africa." I've never been, but it has been popping up in my social media streams and then into my life enough that a few months ago, I began asking the Lord if I was supposed to go... if this whisper of Africa might be meant for me. But why would I go? What would take me there? And once there, what would I do? I didn't … [Read more...]
Life on Purpose: Notes from a Blue Bike (and a giveaway!)
Isn't that the truth?! To live deliberately and suck every bit of the goodness out life. To "Carpe Diem"... to not "let life pass us by." There must be something to it because there are about a zillion thoughts on the subject that for some reason have become cliche when we say them. Maybe they've become cliche because we think we KNOW how to do it. And I don't know about … [Read more...]
Best Pound Cake Ever
I'm not sure where to begin to share about the activities that have transpired in the past 3 weeks of our lives, but on New Year's Day, it sort of began when our HVAC literally started smoking and caught on fire. About an hour later, our septic tank began overflowing poo and other grossness into our front yard. Clearly, we had issues. Last week we escaped our problems … [Read more...]
Log Cabin Bedroom
I do love a good project, and revamping my boys' room has been in process for awhile now. It's still not done, but we're getting there. I've seen the pallet wood projects all over lately, and I think it's pretty cool, but it seemed so "everyone is doing it" to me, as well as, FOR REAL, who wants to really rip all the pallets apart and remove the nails?! I wanted the rustic … [Read more...]
Favorite Things
Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings these are a few of my favorite things... Favorite things. We all have them. And let's be honest, whether you were an Oprah lover or not, the best show of every season was always the "Oprah's Favorite Things" show. She would get crazy … [Read more...]
Amazing Sugar Cookie Recipe
This is the 3rd time I've posted this recipe, but let's face it...I've made them way more than that! These cookies are amazing! Flaky like shortbread, hold their shape when cut with cookie cutters, and amazing whether you like them thin and crispy, or thick and soft. Hands down, the best recipe I’ve found. So good in fact, that my own mother has abandoned her life-long … [Read more...]
Thankful
I can't believe that Thanksgiving is this week. Truth be known, I'm still tired from Allume. Not even sure how that is still possible, but it is. One of my friends told me that for every hour you're in surgery, it takes 1 week to recover from it. So, if there is any equation that begins to be true for conference planning, I'm gonna say it's probably true too. So, big deal … [Read more...]
Fall…and the Perfect Pumpkin Bread Recipe
Let's talk fall for a minute. As in, how rain doesn't fall now in droplets of water so much as in storms of leaves floating down to earth from their lofty views above. About trees that burn in colors that only a celestial paintbrush could mix. And reflections of earth and water and sky somehow produce vibrant reflections of the soul. Where the promises of God somehow come … [Read more...]
Allume Reflections
It's been a month since I've even written here in this space...no surprise really since I was running Allume which happened this past weekend. I want to recap things...the weekend... but, I have to confess that it's near impossible to recap a weekend when that weekend was really the culmination of an entire year for me. So I don't know where to begin. And maybe I begin a … [Read more...]
For the Love of the Game
My son just had a flag football game today, and the whole thing actually put me in a funk. This is our second year playing Upward Flag Football and it has been the best experience. If you're not familiar with Upward, check them out! It's a faith-based sports program dedicated to teaching the mechanics of the game (they do soccer, basketball, flag football, and cheerleading) … [Read more...]
An Ode to Soup and Friendship
I have a lot of meaningful things that I want to say about this past week of my life spent gathering with likeminded and hearted women from all over and also about my experience at the Idea Camp. My friend Sarah Markley said those things well...so since my words are short now, read hers HERE. I have pneumonia. And as my wise friend Katie said the other day..."Ain't nobody got … [Read more...]
Just Getting Started….Happy Birthday to Me!
August 28th is a big day for me this year. I'm turning 35. Yes....35! Some of you are thinking, "oh...you're still so young!" And probably some of you are thinking, "oh, I hope I'm so fun when I'm 35!" (I'm actually just really hoping some of you are thinking that second one! LOL) And me....I'm thinking... "Wow...that happened fast!" For real....that happened … [Read more...]
When Love is a Finished Room…
One of my very dearest friends has had a very full few months. And to top it off, she's been pregnant...which of course is joyous, but also horomonal. In the midst of the pregnancy, they sold their house...and were buying a new one. But as buying and selling often go...things don't happen according to plan. And as having a family and babies go also... things often don't go … [Read more...]
Give Hope for Freeset!
Last night I received an alarming email from one of our Allume partners (and now also one of my friends) Kristi Griem, with Freeset. Here's what it said.... Local Non-Profit Affected By UPS Cargo Plane Crash in Birmingham, AL Freeset USA, a non-profit business, lost over 13,000 bags, with a retail value of $150,000, in this morning’s plane crash in Birmingham, AL. Freeset USA … [Read more...]
Unplugged…
We spent the past 2 weekends in the mountains. And aside from the discovery of bedbug bites upon returning from the cabin (which is a horribly gross and mortifying discovery ...one which will be certainly remedied before we head back in a couple weeks with my dear friend Sarah Mae and her family), we had a fantastic time. I don't get cell service there. Or internet. Which … [Read more...]
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