THE JOURNAL

I recently read somewhere that the engagement process is sort of a right of passage. The process of planning a wedding puts couples through issues they will undoubtly face in their marriage: budgeting finances, communicating concerns, balancing home and work (because let me tell you, wedding planning is full-time job) and making compromises ( “A sectional? But […]

This adorable blue-eyed, squishy cheek doll baby was the easiest child under the age of 4 that I think I have ever worked with. Ever. “She just started walking this week” her Mom Rebekah beamed. Yep, that explains it. I caught her just right – in between the sitting and playing with the grass, looking […]

Let the truth be told, as excited as I am to go to Hawaii (& just finally live with my Army man again, Marshall!), I am as equally scared to death. Leaving the comfort of all of my great friends who have not only been there for me for the past 6 years here in Charlotte, […]

When I was a little girl I used to dream in blueprints.  Immaculately designed Barbie dream-homes, crafted from cardboard boxes and glue-gunned to completion with aluminum foil mirrors and wall-to-wall wash cloth carpeting.  My grandmother, Mommalou, was often re-laundering the fresh bed sheets I claimed to devise my tent cities that sprawled from living room […]

After several bouts of blizzards, I prayed a hundred times that on the particular weekend of January 15th, 2011, God would decide that the kids of Lynchburg Virginia had more than enough snow days and that he would spare the state another winter weather advisory, just long enough for me to drive into town.  That […]