Striving to Make Every Day Fun + Pretty
When it came to my hospital bag, I poured over blog posts, Instagram stories, and talked to my friends. No matter what I heard though, I kept thinking man that’s a lot of STUFF. When it comes to travel, I really love to pack light, and I didn’t want that to change when we had our baby. Sure, we would…
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Thesis Statements are always tricky to teach. And DULL. But they’re extremely important; they are necessary in informal papers and they are even necessary in emails once you enter the work force. Consice and specific words are always going to benefit writers. So how do you make a lesson on thesis statements fun? By using this sassy FREEBIE in your…
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Hello, December. This month will forever bring so many memories with it; it’s the month we got married, the month we lost Hope, and full of an insane amount of amazing holiday memories. While I am anxious about what this next week holds, as we near the one year anniversary of losing Hope, I’m also focusing on the good that…
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Growing up, I never knew life without reading. My parents read to us every night and my grandmother bought us books for every holiday. Looking back, that is one of the things I am most thankful for – being taught to love reading. Did you know that learning to love reading is actually a learned behavior? It’s something parents teach…
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The holiday season is upon us, bringing with it all the joys of this time of the year: visiting with loved ones, decorating and crafting, feasting on beautiful spreads, gorging ourselves with treats. As the kids walk through classroom doors increasingly full of sugar and excitement though, teachers may be feeling some serious anxiety as they gear up for the…
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A year ago today, November 17, 2017, we learned that something was wrong with our baby Hope and that she wasn’t going to make it. That evening I went home and was in a complete loss. I prayed over and over and over again. Not really for God to “fix” what we were going through – but for him to…
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