Today I celebrate 5 years of marriage with my very best friend, the one who compliments me in the best kind of ways and I’m thankful for every day. I know that sounds cliche and that it’ll all sunshine and roses. The first sentence is the absolute truth but that doesn’t mean we don’t drive…
We have been here before, twice now, the limbo of the waiting game; walking the line of anticipation and potential disappointment. Part of me most of me is bursting at the steams with excitement, the tiny remainder is a quiet, reluctant caution that makes us unsure that a celebration is coming instead of another let…
Weekly I get an email called MOMentum and a few weeks ago I read something that I needed to read but not for the context it was sent. In the email there was a poem: The small woman Builds cages for everyone She Knows. While the sage, Who has to duck her head When the moon is…
A few Saturdays ago, I was finishing up a custom piece with the background noise of music playing over our home stereo system and the sound of Ryan and A playing and giggling in the other room. The sun poured into the room that is my makeshift studio/guest room/storage room and I was waiting on a…
For as long as I can remember I’ve always had the desire to help others. My passion for others has always outweighed gaining income from it, which has made things less than easy from time to time since life calls for monetary means. That said, I’ve always been happy to help where I can whether…
I’m sitting here reflecting on the week, and counting all of the blessings I encountered. Things have been tough for us with searching for a home for eighteen months, Ryan becoming burnt out at his current place of work and me wishing for nothing than him finding something he would enjoy. Anything. All last week…
Tomorrow my new shop opens. The shop I have been reluctant to open for years with the subtle fear my artwork won’t be enough, but earlier this year I had an idea and I decided that it felt right. Everything fell together gently just like it tends to do when something is meant to happen…
I never knew how much motherhood would change me, in so many ways. We’ve talked before how we don’t really watch TV, and that usually I find myself on Twitter before turning on the news. I’ve never understood tragedy and the hate that the world has in it. It’s not something my heart has every…
