on my last day of 26

Where am I going? When I was staying in Nigeria, when it was just me and a chubby little one-year-old, waiting for a consulate to issue a visa so our family could be whole, I was scared. I was in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people and I wondered if I could do it. If I […]

when are we old?

Jean jackets are all over this summer. I recently dug through my closet and unearthed a light, cropped Levi’s jacket I had in high school. Praise the Lord, it still fit. I was feeling pretty awesome about myself when it dawned on me that I am now old enough for a trend to happen and […]

first birthday circus theme party

It’s pretty tough to believe that Asher James is already a year old. (It seems like I just wrote this.) To celebrate, we had a circus first birthday party with a few friends and family. Asher loves to give us his ROAR, so we went with a tiger as inspiration for his first birthday bash. Our life […]

25 life highlights on my 25th birthday.

I turned 25. I feel like this is a monumental birthday. Lately, I’ve been pinching myself. Do I really get paid to play with words? Am I really a mom to an amazing two-year-old? With another little one on the way? Have I really been married for 4.5 years to my teenage-hearthrob-turned-man-of-my-dreams? (Hey, what’s a […]