I’ve been sharing a lot of my fine art projects with you and it seems I’ve let my Gratitude Project slip a little. Honestly I’m okay with that for a couple reasons. One – I think it’s important that we evolve as artists. If we continue to do the same things over and over we …
Baby Journey Update: Nursery Progress
I realized it’s been a little while since I posted any updates on our adoption process here on the journal. I’ve been sharing updates on a more frequent basis on a facebook page I created for our adoption (Ryan and Stephanie Adopt). Feel free to follow us there if you’d like. Otherwise, I will periodically …
Start Planner
With all the goals I’ve set for myself for this year, I knew I needed to get organized in 2016. When I was in high school, I was an avid planner user. We got one at the beginning of the school year each year and I used that sucker like crazy. Well somewhere between college …
18 Things You Shouldn’t Say to Someone Struggling with Infertility
I’d like to preface this post by saying that I’m not a super sensitive person. I’m not easily offended, and I’m usually pretty good at looking at a situation from the other person’s point of view to understand where they are coming from. After initially writing this post, I actually read a blog post by …
Book Review: If You Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski
What?! Book 2 is done already! How is this happening? For the past few years I’ve struggled to find the time to read… but with this new goal to read a book a month – it’s really helping me get some much desired reading in. (Real Talk – It also has helped that I’ve started …
Baby Journey: Why Adoption Is Not Always the Answer
When you open up about something that people have no experience in or don’t understand… you undoubtedly are going to get questions. A lot of questions. There is one question that seems to be incredibly common when you are struggling with infertility. Before we changed directions in our path towards parenthood… I was asked this …
Paintings for Sale
I may have mentioned previously that I was working on some painting to sell. I started painting for fun a couple years ago when I needed a new creative outlet. Something I didn’t feel constrained by rules because I didn’t know them. And so painting became one of the first steps towards creative freedom. (You …
The Gratitude Project Shop is Open
I shared with you guys on New Years Day some of the goals I have for this year. And one of those goals is to make my art more accessible, to make it possible for people to view and purchase pieces of my creative expressions. I figured a safe and easy place to start would …
The Birthday Boy
Eleven birthdays… today is the eleventh birthday I’ve gotten to celebrate my wonderful, amazing husband. And he certainly deserves to be celebrated! There is never a day that I don’t consider myself lucky to have this man in my life and better still that I get to be his wife. If you’ve been reading for …
Baby Journey: An Important Truth
You know, it didn’t dawn on me until I posted my Infertility and the Holidays blog post just before Christmas. But I’m realizing there is something I probably need to say… ~ I will always and forever support those struggling with infertility ~ I don’t know… maybe it doesn’t need to be said. But it …