Category: Personal

  • 3 Things I Learned During My Social Media Absence

    3 Things I Learned During My Social Media Absence

    Over the past couple weeks, I’ve taken an intentional break from social media. The reason I pulled away was two-fold: 1. I knew I loved it too much. 2. I recently read a book that suggested the two-week period. Today, I’ll share 3 things I learned during my social media absence:

  • Addicted to Social Media: a daily journal of my 2 week social media break

    Addicted to Social Media: a daily journal of my 2 week social media break

    Two weeks ago, I deleted social media apps from my phone and banned myself from accessing them in any way over a period of 14 days. Because my purpose for this break was to develop my mind and heart, I decided to keep a daily journal specifically chronicling my struggles related to social media abstinence.…

  • One Year Ago Today: 3 lessons I learned when my water broke at 20 weeks

    One Year Ago Today: 3 lessons I learned when my water broke at 20 weeks

    3 lessons I learned when my water broke at 20 weeks…

  • a new phase [general life update]

    a new phase [general life update]

    We have successfully moved from Charlotte, NC to Richmond, VA. Successful = nobody died in the process. (Although we did forget to pack one entire drawer in our kitchen which housed our silverware. Whoops. We’re eating with our hands these days. Nothing out of the ordinary there.) There are a million thoughts going through my…

  • Our Big Change

    Our Big Change

    My family has a big change taking place in 2017. In order to make this as undramatic as possible, I’ll just come out and say it: we’re moving. Long story short: my husband, Jonathan is going to be an assistant pastor at my Dad’s church in Virginia. Short story long: well, how long do you…