A Week of Remembrance
This week I was due with my 4th baby. And this upcoming week, I would have been 10 weeks with my 5th baby. I shouldn’t be on this beach trip, because I should be home snuggling a newborn. I should be soaking up newborn cuddles with my 3 girls, helping them learn to...
Almost Perfect.
He was perfect. It was all going perfect. I was 22 years old and I was LIVING! We had been married for 2 years, we had bought a house, we had our dogs! I had just won Fredericks Best of the Best Hairstylist, had my own salon suite. TRULY LIVING. Man, hot dogs sounded...
Dim.
Everything is gloomy now. You're sitting on your porch swing in the heat of summer, your skin feels like you just came out of a sauna! It is so hot! Almost sticky to the touch! Gross. I hate being hot. It's 11:59 and the sun is right above you. It's dim. It's gray...
The Smallest Feet Leave The Biggest Imprints On Our Hearts
I have been married 5 years this May to the most wonderful man. I moved to South Dakota with my husband due to his career with the Military. After I finished nursing school in August last year we decided it was time to see if we could start a family. I had always been...
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 Oh sweet friends! What a journey my heart and faith have been on the last six years.....actually I take that back,...
109 Miles, 109 baskets, 109 families given an immeasurable gift!
We are here! We have made the huge trip out west to soak in this area and slow our heart rates but we have also made this trip for you! Josh Dortenzo and Joe Tice (and probably a Dortenzo kiddo or two along the way) will be biking 109 miles of the Mickelson Trail in...
Unpacking grief as school begins..
I have spent a lot of time in prayer and in thought the last few weeks. Not gonna lie, its been a mess of a few weeks and God and I have been spending a lot of time together. I have been weepy, on edge, in a fog.... I have spent time "unpacking" why my heart is so...