Simple Purposeful Living

Our Miscarriage

February 4, 2014

Every night we start our family prayer time, gathered in one of the kiddos beds, with that statement. "We are thankful for today Lord!" Yesterday those words stung as I said them. I pondered that thought quickly before proceeding with the rest of our prayer because the next thing

Miscarriage

Typing my feelings out…

February 3, 2014

Blogging for me is cathartic. Sometimes I find myself typing blog posts in my mind as a form of internally processing my emotions. The last few days several blog posts have been typed in my mind.In case you didn't know and how would you, we didn't really announce....we were expecting.

Family Memories

Football and Cheerleaders Joint Birthday Party

August 28, 2013

This year we did a joint party for our kiddos. Our good friends are moving to Africa and we wanted to make sure they could celebrate with the kiddos so alas the double birthday was born. I actually was going to do a football theme for Solon and found in this birthday invite on Etsy and

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Our First Home

February 1, 2013

I am a nerd and took pictoral evidence of our home pre-staging....what does that mean, we are moving along in the process....it is no where close to being in the finished folder but we are working towards that way. I have to say my body is already tired, a twitching eye and well some

Family Memories

Wonder Pets Birthday Party

August 24, 2012

If you haven't heard of the Wonder Pets you are not alone...It was once a show on Nickelodeon but it is no longer on. We don't have cable so Solon watches most of his viewing pleasures on Netflix. All 4 glorious seasons are on there! It is actually really cute and most days I will