• Our family lit the advent candles at church this morning, and in a perfect representation of our life right now, the whole thing was a little messy. Perhaps the most funny thing is that I couldn’t even operate the lighter – the culmination of a week of messiness. A week of frustrating Christmas picture attempts,…

  • I have a favorite bakery. That bakery isn’t my favorite just because of the awesome pastries and donuts and petit fours, it’s also my favorite because of the group of women that work there. I often see them on my way to work when I stop in to get a bagel, and we chit chat…

  • One of my favorite things about my house is the big perfectly full tree in my front yard. I know it sounds odd, especially coming from someone who is allergic to most outside things, but I am attached to my tree. She is simply beautiful and she makes me smile every time I look at…

    Girl Trees and Pruning
  • The bravest people I know are children surviving the behavior of selfish adults. The bravest people I know are children who try to offer forgiveness in scenarios where “adults” like me simply cannot. The bravest people I know are children who admit they are afraid and ask for help. The bravest people I know are…

  • I hate messes. I avoid them if at all possible. I like to walk on the beach, but I have a process for doing so because I don’t like wet sand that gets on clothes and between toes and then into a car that then needs to be vacuumed. I am not a great cook,…