Category: Blogging

  • What’s My Niche?

    What’s My Niche?

    Personal post alert. Don’t read if you find yourself allergic to such things. End of disclaimer. Yesterday, I read a beautifully written post by Mary Beth from Annapolis & Company entitled, “On Finding Your Niche…” It especially caught my attention because I’ve been wondering about this & talking with Jonathan about it for…oh…a while now.…

  • Blogging: It’s Been Fun

    Blogging: It’s Been Fun

    You might be reading this expecting a delicious recipe or home decor tip. Maybe even an interesting post about facebook ruining your friendships. Sad to say – I don’t have anything like that today. In fact, today is somewhat of a sad day for me. I’ll start at the beginning: I’ve been blogging for 2…

  • A few happy things

    A few happy things

    Welcome! To make sure you don’t miss anything, sign up for free email updates & connect with me on facebook! Hello! Just a few happy things I wanted to share with you: one: the winner of the Shabby Apple gift card was announced here! Woohoo for giveaways! two: someone recently told me they didn’t know what it…

  • Random-itis

    Random-itis

    Welcome!  To make sure you don’t miss anything, sign up for free email updates & connect with me on facebook! Mary Beth from Annapolis & Company nominated me for the Leibster Award, and I thought it would be great fun to play along! First off, I have to tell you 11 random facts about myself. Yikes. This…

  • Merry Christmas Eve!

    Merry Christmas Eve!

    From my family to yours… Merry Christmas to you! Enjoy the extra time with friends & family! I’ll be back on Friday….

  • The Family Yearbook

    Every year, I make a photo book for our family. It’s kinda like a yearbook documenting all the events that have taken place during the past year. Only this year I’m extremely behind. Extremely behind…as in, I haven’t even made a photo book for 2011 yet. I kept telling myself I would do it later…

  • Give Them Grace :: Winner Announced!

    Give Them Grace :: Winner Announced!

    Announcing the winner of Give Them Grace… Hello comment number 5: This “Joel” character happens to be my brother-in-law. He’s a good fellow. Mainly because he married my sister. {teehee} Congrats, Joel. Send me your address and I’ll have Crossway ship this book to ya. By the way, you all are going to be here Monday,…

  • Live Now. Blog Later.

    Live Now. Blog Later.

    To say blogging is just writing is like saying cooking is just mac&cheese. It’s not. I mean, blogging is writing. And cooking is mac&cheese. But there’s so much more. Once you add picture taking and editing, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Pinterest – just to name a few), networking with other bloggers and potential…

  • Book Winners: Revealed

    Just found out the winners for my birthday giveaway! Woot! The winner of Don’t Make Me Count to Three is: Comment 32 – Laine And the 5 winners of Wise Words for Moms are: Comment 12 – Beka Comment 5 – Abby Comment 23 – Kelly Comment 34 – Shannon Comment 7 – Megan Congrats to you…

  • Oh, How I Love Gifts (CLOSED)

    Oh, How I Love Gifts (CLOSED)

    Oh yes, it’s true. Tomorrow is my birthday. And I now give you permission to sing me a small (or large) birthday song. I’ve been prepping Anna Grace for my upcoming birthday since last week. I have her practice singing “Happy Birthday” to me. She’s getting to be pretty good at it. And, about those…

  • Here’s to a Great Year

    Here’s to a Great Year

    Have you ever gotten one of those birthday cards that starts out with a lame, “I know I should have remembered but…” and basically goes on to say how they were so busy and just totally forgot about your birthday? Yep…hands raised all over the building. Well, I did it. And I really can’t believe…

  • Fave Posts

    Hello all! I hope you had a special Christmas Day! I have a small newsflash for you: 6 DAYS FROM TODAY IS 2012!! Insane. In light of that fact, today’s post is a combination of favorite posts from 2011. Think of it as a time-travel event. 🙂 Here’s a recent one to begin with…my DIY…