COZY WINTER FAVORITES – things I’m enjoying and are making this winter a cozy one

Christmas is just over a month away! Our tree is up, the snow is on the ground and the first batch of cookies has been baked. I love Christmas, the celebration of Christ’s birth, the time spent with family and just taking it slow for a few days. One thing I do not like is…

This week we hosted our second Sole Hope shoe cutting party at my church. In a nutshell here is how it works: you get a bunch of people together to trace and cut out fabric for shoes, you ship it to Sole Hope and from there they get it to Uganda where they employ locals to…

Yesterday my mom reminded me that today is one year since Raeca had her sagittal craniosynostosis corrective surgery. I knew the one year anniversary was coming but didn’t realize how quickly. I know I’ve explained this before but for those that don’t know, sagittal craniosynostosis is a condition where a baby’s soft spots grow closed too quickly…

For the last month and a half I’ve been on a mission that I have dubbed: The Great Purge of 2014. When the new year dawned it was like something woke up inside me and I realized just how much stuff I have! How did I accumulate this? And, more importantly, why am I keeping it?…