5 tips for fostering your marriage in motherhood
I’ll never forget our first date. Clay had me create a playlist, and we walked down the 3rd Street Promenade listening to it. He slipped his hand into mine for the very first time....
Category: marriage
5 practices to help your marriage thrive
Divorce is not even a word in Clay’s and my marriage vocabulary. And yet I don’t just want a marriage that survives; I want a marriage that thrives. I have a lot of growth...
4 years of marriage reflections
Clay and I just celebrated four years of marriage on April 23! It’s been quite a journey. We’ve been to three different continents, lived in two different homes, and I’ve given him one quarantine...
expectation vs. reality
// 4 lessons I learned in marriage that apply to all of life // “I believe that much of the dissatisfaction we experience in marriage comes from expecting too much from it,” Gary Thomas,...
appreciation over comparison: part 2
This is a continuation of my last post on appreciation over comparison.⠀ My wise hubby recently said as we were discussing the topic, “When we compare, we elevate ourself; when we appreciate, we elevate...
appreciation over comparison
I wake up. I see the dishes drying that he did after we were asleep last night. I see the exercise ball he bounced her on so I could finish my dinner. And my...
the night sky
March 11, 2015. He walked me to the door. We stopped on the sidewalk and gazed up at those rarely bright Santa Monica stars. And he asked me to be his girlfriend. Three weeks...
our maternity photos
I can’t wait to meet this sweet baby girl. I am so grateful for these photos. They are a celebration of her life, this gift from God, and this miracle of His good design....
a new journey
In so many ways it felt like the end of a journey when we took this photo. And in so many ways it was. It was the end of a long journey of singleness....
3 things I’ve learned in 3 years of marriage.
3 things I’ve learned in 3 years of marriage: 1. Marriage is a journey, not a snapshot. It’s full of ups and downs, times of rejoicing and those of struggle. We’re in it for...
