"Celebrate what you want to see more of." – Tom Peters
The LORD is my light and my salvation--whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life--of whom shall I be afraid?" -Psalm 27:1 1. Hopkins Date Night Aaron and I had the most fun date night on a warm Friday night in the middle of May. While eating at Longfellow Grill earlier [...]
Hey Friends! Here's what I've been up to his month. What I'm Eating First, I've started making shakes for breakfast! This way I'm at least having something jumpstart my metabolism and all in all, it's healthier than what I usually eat for breakfast (i.e. leftover pizza or cupcakes :/). Here's my recipe: 1 cup of [...]
Hi Friends! I'm doing glimpses of joy a little different this month. In February, I tried to have a focus to each week that I felt God putting on my heart. I prayed about it and started my day thinking about it. I found that they actually showed how God was working in my life that [...]
Hey Friends! Here's what I've been up to his month. What I'm Eating This month I made an effort to have healthy lunches. Here are two recipes I tried (from Pinterest): And here are two dinner recipes. The first was for our Small Group "Minnesota" themed dinner and the second is an old favorite [...]
"We're having one of those moments. One of those moment's when everything is so perfect and so wonderful that... you almost feel sad because nothing could ever be this good again." - Rory Gilmore Here are my glimpses of joy from January. 4: "Click, click" (Lobster hands). 7 & 14: Doing nothing with your favorite [...]
One of my goals for 2017 is to have a weekly date night. Here are some of the things Aaron and I did together in January. 1. Take Cross Country Skiing Lessons {1.4.17}. REI offers a bunch of sports classes and some of them are free! We went to a cross country skiing informational session- [...]
Last year, I started following blogger Shay Shull and one of my favorite posts of hers was a link up party she did with two other bloggers called What's Up Wednesday. Once a month they share... And I thought it would be fun to join the club! Here's what's new with me: What I'm Eating I'm [...]
"Celebrate what you want to see more of." -Tom Peters As we embark on a new year, I wanted to take the time to look at the year past and record just one glimpse of joy, one awesome moment or memory from each month of 2016. Here's my list. January Fun winter date nights with Aaron [...]
"There is a way of living, a way of harmonizing and hitting a balance point, a converging of a thousand balance points and voices, layering together, twisting together, and there are moments, when it all clicks into place just for a split second--God and marriage and forgiveness and something deep inside that feels like peace--and [...]
"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer." -Helen Hunt Jackson 2: Bus rides and card games with family. 6: The quiet after your guests leave for the evening. 10: Sitting at the point, the wind whipping off the water and through the pines. [...]
GLIMPSES OF JOY 