Every year I sit here trying to figure out what to share about getting another year older… I’m not much into my birthday, to be honest. I don’t like being the center of attention and I’m a big believer in age is just a number. But over the past few years, I find my birthday …
Missing: Compassion and Understanding
I read a post on Facebook last week. It was on the page for an individual with a rather large following who speaks about mental health and real life struggles. I started following this person because I have several friends who have shared her posts and I’ve always enjoyed them. However, after reading one of …
A Letter to Our Child’s Birth Mother
Dear future Birth Mom, We haven’t met yet. I don’t know your name or what you look like. I don’t know where you live or what your life looks like. I don’t know if you are carrying our child already or if he/she has yet to be conceived. But none of that seems to stop …
What Makes a Good Leader?
Ryan, my hubby, and I spend a lot of time talking. We tend to be thinkers and can often end up in these long conversations about the most random things. Lately, we’ve been talking a lot about leaders or bosses and what makes a good one. I think we’ve all experienced a bad boss or …
GISHWHES Recap
Oh my gosh, you guys! I’m so excited to talk about GISHWHES! So you may recall from last week that GISHWHES stands for the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen. It’s a massive scavenger Hunt that takes place the first week of August. Players compete from anywhere in the world, including their …
How Do You Know? | A poem by me
So I’m going to be honest and just admit that I didn’t have a blog post ready for today. I got swept up in other writing projects. (I know, I know – I am truly sorry.) But I was going through old posts I hadn’t shared yet and came across this one. I wrote this …
Gearing Up for Gishwhes!
So… you may or may not know that the hubby and I are pretty big nerds. Don’t worry, though – we’re proud of our nerdiness 😉 Well thanks to our love for Supernatural… we ended up discovering gishwhes last year. Unfortunately, by the time we found out about it – we were too late to …
The Pezzelle Twins July Visit to Decatur
You may recall that my brother, Joel, and his wife, Stacey, added twins to our family earlier this year. Well this past week, we got to spend a lot of time with these little four-month-old men while their mommy and daddy went on a little trip. August and Shepherd spent the week with their Nonni …
Baby Journey: Waiting for Baby…
I know I haven’t really shared any updates here on our baby journey. And honestly, it’s because we don’t really have any news to share. I wish when people asked me about it that I had something interesting to tell you or some positive thing to say, but really we’re just back to waiting… and …
Hearing God’s Voice
You know, four or five years ago, I would not have believed you if you told me I’d be one of “those people”… the crazy, Jesus people. I believed in God and Jesus and all that stuff – but I felt like it was more of a far off thing that happened a long time …