Jul 24, 2024 | Community Life
IT WAS A NORMAL MOVIE NIGHT UNTIL I LOST CONTROL. I am no a stranger to hosting large groups. But this last week, I was hosting some preschool friends when my control tied me to an agenda instead of organic connection. It was towards the end of the party when of...
Jul 23, 2024 | Community Life
Friendship is malleable-it’s susceptible to changes from outside forces in our life. When I was a young mother, a quality friendship was someone who could be flexible around my schedule, forgiving in last minute changes and willing to have half-conversations...
Mar 28, 2024 | Community Life
“Understanding the Enneagram helps us grasp how personality influences our preferences and behaviors, even in design. By aligning interior design choices with our Enneagram types, we create spaces that reflect our authentic selves. Let’s explore expert...
Jan 1, 2023 | Community Life
The people you can’t afford to live without in the new year–friends! It’s the start of a new year and all the resolutions can feel overwhelming. Sprinkle in some winter blues and January is a war zone for keeping your head above water before the year...
Nov 29, 2022 | Community Life
As a young adult, I remember approaching my first Christmas and realizing: I DON’T OWN ANY ORNAMENTS for my tree. I didn’t want to go out and buy just any particular ornament, I wanted it to have meaning. Having an ornament exchange is a great way to share something...
Nov 21, 2022 | Community Life
Every Christmas, I make the effort to give gifts to my closest friends. Sometimes, it’s a mixed CD (yes, I still make those) or perhaps it’s my favorite highlighter pens. I like to make it personal, affordable and fun. Yet, there is always this awkward pause when I...
Nov 17, 2022 | Community Life
“THAT’S MY SISTER!” I yelled as I sprinted across the dining hall to break up a friendly dog pile of stinky boys tackling one of my friends. It was summer, and I was a camp counselor. It felt like a rite of passage: an opportunity to love on kiddos, have new...
Nov 10, 2022 | Community Life
I knew the friendship had run its course—yet, the shared history and guilt over closing the doors kept me feeling chained to this unhealthy friendship. For years I wanted to sneak out of the friendship quietly but my conscious wouldn’t allow me to just disappear from...
Oct 27, 2022 | Community Life
My husband, Tim, was hosting a football party this fall and was discouraged when a few of the guys cancelled last minute. He was walking around the house, making loud sighs as he read the texts coming in on his phone. He looked at me and said, “How do you do this?...
Oct 27, 2022 | Community Life
“Oh, you didn’t hear?” “Hear what?” My husband and I asked our then, trusted companion. We were sitting in our living room, crunching on snacks while watching football. We thought it was a normal Saturday afternoon but, later remember it as an ambush. Our friend...
Oct 18, 2022 | Community Life
Welcome to tough conversations with friends. We all want to avoid them and yet, we have felt that tug to dig in and say what we feel the Spirit leading us to say. Hard conversations do not equate to conflict or criticism but when done in love, can be edifying and...
Oct 6, 2022 | Community Life
Tim and I sat in the dimly lit hotel lobby and clinked our glasses together celebrating seven years of marriage. I looked at him with so much joy because this year we had tackled three kids, a book release, a new job, an ACL surgery, settling into our new home and so...
