AKA I am finally wrapping my head around what has happened over the summer and the fact that it's over... and I'm realizing that a lot has h

Sitting down, writing this post... it's almost surreal that a year ago, after months of figuring out the logistics and details of a website

Summer should be six months long. I mean, honestly, it should be longer than that. But at least half of the year. When I was a kid, I was sh

Summer is here. Summer with all its life and warmth and fun things. Summer with late nights and camps and plans and ice cream. And summer wi

I have recently been thinking about and pondering the question of identity. Identity as in who we are, what we are, and Whose we are. Identi

Happy Saturday everyone! And yes, it's Saturday. Yes, yesterday was Friday - the first Friday I missed posting since... last June, which see

I don't know about you all but OH my goodness - I adore the Psalms so SO so much. Somehow they feel very... personal, like I'm seeing into s

Mother's Day has always been one of my favorite holidays of the year because I got to do fun, fancy stuff for my mom - stuff that I never re

No, I am not writing this because it's my birthday this weekend. But yes, I absolutely am writing this because I love talking about books th

Today is my cousin's birthday. Today is one of the last days of April. And for some people, today is hard. For some people, today might just

Over this past weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to go to The Great Homeschool conference in Cincinnati Ohio with my mom and sister a

I haven't done an official book review in a while, and this book got me out of a reading slump that I've been in for... a while, so I decide

Since it's Good Friday and Easter weekend, I feel slightly inadequate to write a good Good Friday post, because we all know that God's words

As I've looked out at little flowers starting to bud, and seen the snow clinging to the green shoots that are trying to break up through the

I will forever be thankful to my mom for choosing to give joy to me as my middle name to always remind me that joy is a choice, a mindset, a

There was a time in my life that I wished I was anyone but me, anywhere but here, anytime but now. I was... not content, and in a way, thoug

Life is hard. Jesus literally promised His disciples that they would have troubles in this world (Mathew 16:33). And Peter told his audience

Why. Why do we live? Why do we write? Who is fueling our fire? It all comes back to who we're living for, who is igniting our fire

So, to remind you to stop worrying about 2023, I've written up a little recipe. And with every good recipe comes... a good story.

Philippians 4:13 says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." And I think a lot of times we say we can't, when we can. We