• Do you think/know/feel/believe you’re living out who God created you to be? I know, it’s sort of a big question. Maybe you’re not sure if you are 🤷🏽‍♀️ Maybe you’re still trying to figure out your strengths and skills and passions and sending up hope and a prayer that you can find that place? In We Are Free Rp. 045 - Living Out Your God-Given Design, I chat with Jenni of @the.yay.project. ✨ Link in bio ✨ Jenni started The Yay Project to encourage women to not only live out but also CELEBRATE their God-given design. Listen in to Jenni’s journey, how her fear of rejection held her back from experiencing God’s goodness and how she now shares how God is speaking to her and through her via writing and design over at @the.yay.project 💛 (You’ll probably want to follow her too, since her posts are so uplifting and convicting in the best way!)
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    Do you think/know/feel/believe you’re living out who God created you to be? I know, it’s sort of a big question. Maybe you’re not sure if you are 🤷🏽‍♀️ Maybe you’re still trying to figure out your strengths and skills and passions and sending up hope and a prayer that you can find that place? In We Are Free Rp. 045 - Living Out Your God-Given Design, I chat with Jenni of @the.yay.project. ✨ Link in bio ✨ Jenni started The Yay Project to encourage women to not only live out but also CELEBRATE their God-given design. Listen in to Jenni’s journey, how her fear of rejection held her back from experiencing God’s goodness and how she now shares how God is speaking to her and through her via writing and design over at @the.yay.project 💛 (You’ll probably want to follow her too, since her posts are so uplifting and convicting in the best way!)
  • Mama Needs to Breathe. That’s what I called my saved list on @airbnb, where 13 light-filled homes sat, waiting. Beautifully designed homes that are not my own. That do not have tiny cars and wooden block garages strewn from one end of the house to the next. That do not require my laundry or dish-doing skills. These homes sat under my saved list for months. And the longer COVID cozied into our lives, the faster these beauties darted to the bottom of the screen: UNAVAILABLE. “Unavailable.” It sort of rings a bell in my brain and heart. I’ve been unavailable lately. For myself. Not entirely, though. Exercise ✅ Eating healthy ✅ Clean-ish house ✅ Cherished daughter ✅ Hanging with the hubs ✅ Time with Jesus my soul desperately neeeeds ❌ (Oooh, here we go.) Writing for the sake of creative expression ❌ (Rolling backward.) For me, those two things go hand-in-hand. It’s hard to do one without the other. But I’ve been “busy” planning birthday parties and psyching V up for preschool reentry. I’ve been convincing myself that other things need to get done first. When really, nothing good comes from overextending without replenishing. Only exhaustion. Only defeat. My friend and I finally decided to just do it, book it before that beautiful, light-filled home quickly became UNAVAILABLE too. Instantly, without stepping foot outside of my home, filled to the brim with tiny, metal pull-back cars and never-ending love, I felt relief. Clicking Reserve automatically refilled my cup because I know it’s exactly what I need. Sometimes, obedience is staying put in the thick of it. Day in and out. Month after month of surrendering expectations and choosing joy in the simplest moments and colors and gifts (this is my goal, regardless of circumstance!) But sometimes, obedience is filling up the fridge from a Costco run, tossing the Subaru keys to your hubby, and saying “don’t forget to fold her llama pillow in half before she gets in bed. Bye! Love you!” and stepping out of the role you normally fill so God, the guy who knows you better than anyone can speak to your heart and make your pen move. I’ll miss this face this weekend but I CAN NOT WAIT for this time for myself 💛
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    Mama Needs to Breathe. That’s what I called my saved list on @airbnb, where 13 light-filled homes sat, waiting. Beautifully designed homes that are not my own. That do not have tiny cars and wooden block garages strewn from one end of the house to the next. That do not require my laundry or dish-doing skills. These homes sat under my saved list for months. And the longer COVID cozied into our lives, the faster these beauties darted to the bottom of the screen: UNAVAILABLE. “Unavailable.” It sort of rings a bell in my brain and heart. I’ve been unavailable lately. For myself. Not entirely, though. Exercise ✅ Eating healthy ✅ Clean-ish house ✅ Cherished daughter ✅ Hanging with the hubs ✅ Time with Jesus my soul desperately neeeeds ❌ (Oooh, here we go.) Writing for the sake of creative expression ❌ (Rolling backward.) For me, those two things go hand-in-hand. It’s hard to do one without the other. But I’ve been “busy” planning birthday parties and psyching V up for preschool reentry. I’ve been convincing myself that other things need to get done first. When really, nothing good comes from overextending without replenishing. Only exhaustion. Only defeat. My friend and I finally decided to just do it, book it before that beautiful, light-filled home quickly became UNAVAILABLE too. Instantly, without stepping foot outside of my home, filled to the brim with tiny, metal pull-back cars and never-ending love, I felt relief. Clicking Reserve automatically refilled my cup because I know it’s exactly what I need. Sometimes, obedience is staying put in the thick of it. Day in and out. Month after month of surrendering expectations and choosing joy in the simplest moments and colors and gifts (this is my goal, regardless of circumstance!) But sometimes, obedience is filling up the fridge from a Costco run, tossing the Subaru keys to your hubby, and saying “don’t forget to fold her llama pillow in half before she gets in bed. Bye! Love you!” and stepping out of the role you normally fill so God, the guy who knows you better than anyone can speak to your heart and make your pen move. I’ll miss this face this weekend but I CAN NOT WAIT for this time for myself 💛
  • I might be the one riding this bike for a while 😂 V has gone back and forth between trying the big bike and going back to what she knows on the balance bike. Buuut, isn’t that how we all grow?! So far, the biggest draw to riding the new bike has been putting Kiki in the basket (not pictured here, since she was napping). More bike updates coming soon ✌🏽
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    I might be the one riding this bike for a while 😂 V has gone back and forth between trying the big bike and going back to what she knows on the balance bike. Buuut, isn’t that how we all grow?! So far, the biggest draw to riding the new bike has been putting Kiki in the basket (not pictured here, since she was napping). More bike updates coming soon ✌🏽
  • I keep thinking the age she’s at is the best one yet! 🤷🏽‍♀️ (Mamas, does this just KEEP happening?!) So in awe of this beautiful girl. Excited to see even more of who she is while she’s F O U R. Happy actual birthday, sweet girl. #weloveyouveramuch #thisisfour
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    I keep thinking the age she’s at is the best one yet! 🤷🏽‍♀️ (Mamas, does this just KEEP happening?!) So in awe of this beautiful girl. Excited to see even more of who she is while she’s F O U R. Happy actual birthday, sweet girl. #weloveyouveramuch #thisisfour