Hey friends! Just popping in to say that I am knee-deep in projects and my head is a spinnin’! I don’t know if I’m comin’ or goin’ Just to give you an idea, here is my to-do list… 1. Complete front porch. 2. Gut the playroom and turn it into our host daughter’s room. 3….
Summer time is here, and I am so excited to be outside on our back patio grillin’ and spending time with my husband and four boys. We love to eat out on our back patio, so I have been sprucing it up the past few weeks. (I will be sharing a “reveal” of my back patio on my blog soon, so be sure to follow along.) 
Since we will be eating outside a lot this summer, I thought it would be fun to make some colorful mason jar lid coasters for our patio table.
These coasters were so easy and inexpensive to make!
Every year, Mother’s Day is hard for me. I miss my mom so much I can hardly stand it. I was blessed to have the most amazing Mom a girl could ever dream of. IMG_3464
She was brilliant, beautiful, loving, funny, compassionate, a servant, self-less, inspiring, and beyond comparison.IMG_3483
There was one thing in life I always knew for sure, and that was that my mom loved me. She taught me about Jesus Christ. She loved Him, knew Him, lived for Him, and is now with Him.
I often think about all that Mom taught me growing up, and I try to think, “What would Mom do in this situation?” I try my best to honor her in the way that I live my life now.
When my dad remarried, it wasn’t easy. Even though he was marrying a wonderful lady, Janet, it was still hard. I wanted to kick and scream and close my eyes so I could wake up and find that Mom was still alive and things would go back to normal.
But it wasn’t.
And I thought, how would Mom want me to handle this situation? And without a doubt, I knew that she would want me to be happy for Dad, to love Janet, and to glorify God with my actions. So that is what I have tried to do, in honor of my mom.
Because without a single doubt, when my mom got cancer, I KNOW that she prayed that God would take care of my Dad and her children after she was gone. Janet is an answer to my mom’s prayer.
Though Mom would love to still be alive, watching her grandchildren grow and growing old with Dad, if she couldn’t be here, I know she would want someone in her place to take care of Dad and love on her children and grandchildren.
Mom, God has answered your prayers.
Janet is a gift to our family.
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Has anyone missed me? Oh, you didn’t know I have been gone. Oops. Well, I have missed you TERRIBLY!!! I haven’t posted since last Tuesday night. That is a record for me. Why, you ask? Because my life was a crazy chaotic mess last week!!! I will spare you the details. But to sum it…
I hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day. I cannot tell you how much your thoughts and prayers comforted me on that special day. Thank you for your comments and emails…they are precious to me! I got cards in the mail from my sweet sister-in-law, Sarah… my good friend, Julie, and my Children’s Minister…