About

I began blogging when my first child was born. I was 22, and didn’t know how to boil water, or fold a fitted sheet. My first blog, “The Hesitant Homemaker” was a place to hash out all the mistakes I made as a young mother, and to share tips of what I learned along the way. I went through the cloth diapering stage, the make my own laundry detergent stage, and the “leave art supplies at kid-level to give your toddler creative access” stage. Ten years later, I buy Tide and Pampers, and markers aren’t allowed in the house.

After the birth of my 4th child in 2012, I stopped blogging. Life had taken an unexpected turn. I was changed, and my former life became foreign territory. I couldn’t go back, but didn’t know where to go next. Later, opportunities came, and I took them. First, to guest blog for The Guiding Star Project , then to write reflections on classic novels for The Well-Read Mom . Those projects led to other projects, which led me here.

After a particularly vulnerable blog post , a friend and mentor commented, “Being real and authentic is really the only way to honor this life that Christ has asked you to live for His glory. To sanitize it would be to reduce the worth of your experience and rob us all of the wisdom that can only be gained through sacrifice.” I took the words to heart, and sought to write authentically, honestly, and not to sanitize my God-given joys and sufferings. That remains my goal, and to live with the understanding that we are all a great work in progress; only perfected through Christ.

Outside of the blog world, I’m raising four kids, helping to run my husband’s business, and singing some Jazz on the side. I am partial to Great American Novels, of which characters might appear as a pseudonym on occasion, and I love potato chips and a great Malbec. I still can’t fold a fitted sheet.