After years of marriage, it’s so easy to get comfortable with each other and forget that there is still so much to learn about one another. Life keeps us busy and the routine of being parents and/or working a full-time job can affect the amount of conversation we…
I hang up the phone trying to hold back the flood of tears wanting to start flowing down my flushed and noticeably red cheeks. The words I have just heard echo through my head as I repeat them over and over again. I try to comprehend if what I just…
I’m the 1/8. One in eight individuals and couples experience infertility. Over the last few years I have become more candid about my infertility struggle. My husband and I struggled with infertility for over two years before we conceived our first child. Trying for our second child is turning out to be…
“And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on His name.” -Acts 22:16 This morning I made the spontaneous, yet very conscious decision, to get re-baptized at Radiant Church. It’s been on my heart to do so for months…
When you create a memory jar, you collect memories that have been written down throughout the year and at the end of the year, you open them with your family to read! This is a great way to reflect on all of those special memories from the prior…
Every year we write down goals that we have for the New Year. Our intentions are genuine, and we have every intention to accomplish those goals. Generally, these are habits that we try to do every day or bad habits we wish to stop doing. For many of us,…
As someone who just had a family member go through a vicious cyber-bullying attack, cyber-bullying awareness has now become a personal mission of mine in order to address and enlighten everyone on what is it and what it does to those who are affected. First, let me define…
For most of us, having the evenings and weekends with your significant other is normal. But, for some of us who work entirely different shifts from each other, having an evening together or a weekend off together is far and few between. For my spouse and I, he…
Do I claim to be a relationship expert? Heavens No! Does my spouse and I have issues from time to time? Most certainly, but doesn’t everyone? Those real-life issues do not define us. 2014 was the most amazing year and also the most challenging. We welcomed our first…