Story Saturday Post #4: Desires of your Heart

November 18, 2023.Reading time 13 minutes.

Good Morning Gorgeous, It’s a brand new day! A fresh new start! All things are becoming NEW! TODAY is the 6 year anniversary of Nia’s ADOPTION day!!! So story Saturday will be something I wrote right before her adoption was finalized. One day I asked God, ” Do miracles still happen in the earth? You […]

Won’t He do it!

November 17, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Good Morning Gorgeous! Wow!!! I was looking for something in my Google photos and found this gem! This was written years ago. Before the boys came. Before Nia came. I wrote this in a season of learning to love who God designed me to be. I was coming out of over two decades of being […]

Something NEW is up ahead for our Family!

September 7, 2022.Reading time 13 minutes.

Good Morning Gorgeous, It’s a brand new day! A fresh new start! And God is continually up to something NEW! We get a fresh sunrise every morning. He tells us that His mercies are new every morning. Every. Single. Day. A fresh fill from heaven is available. A fresh anointing. A fresh provision. A fresh […]

Celebrating Nia’s Adoption Day: 4 years later

November 18, 2021.Reading time 8 minutes.

Today marks 4 years since I stood before the judge, my village, and a crowd of others who were also finalizing their adoptions that day, and I breathed in a full lung filling breath. I believe that from the moment my youngest daughter was placed in my arms at 17 days old to the moment […]

My Blog Post from Four Years Ago: Meeting Nia!

April 29, 2021.Reading time 14 minutes.

Good Evening Gorgeous, Today marks 4 years since I wrote this blog post. Four years have passed since I excitedly said yes to an 18 day old baby girl being discharged from the NICU. Four years since I met my daughter on a Friday night. That morning I got up and went to work completely […]

I fell in love with her.

March 8, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

Good Morning Gorgeous, It’s a brand new day. A fresh new start. A new day to rise and love those you encounter with all you’ve got. Love when it’s hard. Love when it’s scary. Love when you have something to lose. Love when your pride is on the line. Love. Love. Love. Today is the […]

A letter to my daughter on the anniversary of her adoption.

November 18, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

Today, marks 3 years since the judge signed and sealed my youngest daughter legally and permanently into my care as her mother. I looked through the pictures from that day and all the feelings came rushing back. I saw the Hands of God move in that season. The adoption process is the most challenging journey […]

Dating my children: Miss Nia’s date

October 22, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

My Gorgeous Friends in Christ, Do you have special traditions with your children? One of ours is date days. With five kiddos in the house, almost everything from what to watch on tv to what we will eat after church on Sunday is up for negotiation and compromise. The kids have to make alot of […]

Reveling in God’s goodness!

September 7, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

About a month ago, our family dressed up on a Friday afternoon and headed to a nature park to meet up with our favorite photographer. (Well our only photographer.) We met her three years ago to have family pics taken when Nia was a newborn, and that beach photo session became my testimony because hours […]

A Heavy Momma Heart: Part 1

June 4, 2020.Reading time 12 minutes.

Good Morning Gorgeous, It’s a brand new day. A fresh start. I almost always write first thing in the morning, but my heart is grieving. I am mourning like so many of you over the events happening around our nation. I am writing this in the evening as I process the hurts happening across our […]