I wholeheartedly agree with these insightful words by Erin Loechner on birthdays: "I've always loved birthdays for the perspective they provide. Like New Year’s Day, birthdays are a chance to celebrate the passage of time, the wisdom gained. But with birthdays, there are no resolutions to shame and guilt ourselves into changing the pesky details of our lives that make us into perfectly imperfect human beings. Instead, they're mile markers we pause and wave to as we pass by, leaving past …
A Simple and Minimal Home
Two years ago, we stretched our faith and purchased our very first house. It was a feeling like no other when we were given three sets of keys in a small white box that allowed us access and ownership to the three-floor, three-bedroom house we had just committed thirty years of our lives and hopes into. A life of excess Before living the dream, we were hopping almost every winter season from one apartment to another until our little boy was born. The last apartment we lived in was full …
New Year, New Intentions
New Year There is something noble about writing down your goals, intentions, resolutions or whatever you call them, on the first of January, or even before the old year passes the crown to the new. I had always aimed for the same in the past seasons of my life, but I have also been learning this truth: that you get to choose your new year, your goal-setting period, that it will always feel new no matter what time of year when you have a change of heart. And so after the two weeks rolled by fast …
What is a Great Day Trip with a Toddler?
It begins with this. You wake up your toddler at 6 AM-ish on the weekend. Barely opening and scratching his eyes, he says grumpily, "No driving, sleep pa!" which means he isn't ready yet. You then comfort and lock your child in your arms, and both of you succumb to extra hours of bliss, off to Dreamlandia while the daddy practices grace and patience on the impending late start of this trip. It's Not the Destination; it's the Journey You wake up shortly before 9 AM deciding you will hit the …
Six Years
Six years and a child after, how does a marriage look like? I tell you what it’s like for us now. At six years, it’s not all about romance. It’s not all about the warm, fuzzy feeling you get during the dating and honeymoon stage. It’s not announcing to the world the sweet gestures every single time---photos, emojis and all. It is not about who is doing more, giving more, pouring more. It is descending from the romantic pedestal to the practical grounds of tending to the daily …