Have you ever noticed sometimes how – when it rains…it pours?!?!  I’m almost certain that during every major life decision we make…four other inevitably follow and everything gets flipped upside down! When my husband and I were on our honeymoon, we received two job offers and we had to choose one before we got home.  […]

When Steve and I first started dating, he had to go out of town very unexpectedly for some family matters.  The two of us were right in the middle of those blissful, early stages of getting to know each other and the idea of being apart – even for just a few days – was […]

Few things bring me as much joy as the very first snow fall of the season! I love the way the air smells different…the way everything seems quieter…the way the world just seems a little bit softer.  Something about that first snowfall makes me want to run out and buy a new ornament for our […]

Did you ever have to do improvisation when you were in high school?  Where everyone sits around starring while two people throw all their cares to wind and make up a random script??  It never failed…every drama class or team building activity I’ve ever had to do involved this exercise and I absolutely despised it.  […]

Do you remember what it was like on the first day of school?  Dressing up in your new clothes…packing all of your new binders into your backpack…anxiously anticipating who you’ll share a class with?  I always loved the first day of school…but it always made me really nervous too. Starting a new career [especially when […]

Life can be complicated sometimes.  Life can be tricky and messy and full of drama sometimes.  Life can be filled with the unexpected and the difficult and the surprisingly challenging sometimes.  All in all, life can just be a lot of work sometimes. But then there are the other times.  The times when things seem […]