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Hi, I’m Lai.

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I’m a mom, a wife, and a creative trying to unearth the sparkles in simplified and purposeful living. I love a warm cup of black coffee in the morning, home-decorating, plants, travels and books. I’m passionate about intentional parenting, growing in my faith walk and living simply. I’d love for you to join me in this journey.

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Where there are pillows, there will be “play,” a world imagined, a structure built, a fake fight acted out.
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I tell myself they are just pillows and yet, the more I let go of them, the more life is teaching me that they are “not just” pillows. ☺️
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#thewonderfulworldofplay #thelittleyears

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#thegoodlist —-
1) the beauty in the ordinary days - stumbling into a lovely little quaint cafe, forgetting its name but remembering how these cacti in all their spiky glory were potted in porcelain teacups and lined up so beautifully on a window sill.
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2) new words read by my nearly four-year old—- car, far, war, jar, jam, us, bus, has.
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3) grace and patience in teaching a child to read.
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4) a good cry after hearing a song on the radio, on how my afflictions are eclipsed in God’s glory and how He loves me/us so.
#cultivatinggratitude #helovesusso

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Home project: photo wall no.2 courtesy of my ever handy man. I imagine; he makes things happen. ☺️
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I shared the before and after in my story. It’s a brave thing to do to paint one wall that color of gray in a house where all walls are the shade of the lightest whitish-gray, but we went with our instincts that this change could be good and still minimal and Scandinavian-inspired . And we were right (we would like to think).
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Been wanting to do a photo wall? The actual work is 10%, the deciding on which wall, what frame size and what photos to print is 90%. Start small with the 90% and you will get there. 😉

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#thegoodlist - John 16:33 amidst the hiccups and bumps in this journey we call life, scribbles of a leftie, daily progress in reading with my nearly four-year old, daily lesson on patience and humility for my heart.

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Plants (kitchen and living room). (All real.) 🌱
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What I have been doing the past two years to collect plants is to buy one or two only on pay day. I have to wait for the next pay day if I want to buy more.
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Delayed gratification as my husband always says. It works for plant shopping, it works for pretty much everything else. ☺️ #indoorplants

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A glimpse of my 2020 #minimalistbujo aka bullet journal. ☺️ (see my story for the video)
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A confession —-
I’m a chronic note-taker recovering from writing notes on candy wrappers, appointment cards, receipts, and the worst? —starting on too many notebooks every single year and not finishing writing on any. I tried bullet journaling mid last year and realized, this might be the solution to my disorganized system.
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So far, so good.
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Tell me, what are the habits you are shifting this year? 😌
#habitshift

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#thegoodlist:
- reclaimed nap times (💃)
- waking up at dawn to read, reflect and journal
- God’s sufficient, amazing grace.
What are you counting on and counting these days? #cultivatinggratitude

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Come, #bulletjournal with me, the minimalist way. ☺️
#bujominimalist

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This is a blog about pursuing a simple and purposeful living. Written by Laidel, this blog features reflections on faith, family and motherhood and what it means to live life with a purpose. It also tells the story of her journey and the lessons of cultivating a minimalist lifestyle and home. She has a penchant for books, plants, travels and simplifying.

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