Category: SAHW & WAHW

Farmhouse Tour: Fall 2016

Photography Credits: Ashley Duke, Faith Photography Resources: Listings at End of Tour W E L C O M E! It’s that time of year again! Time to peruse all of the details of a decorated farmhouse. Before it gets covered in muck boots, farm-wear, and the aspects of a farm that don’t need to be highlighted…
How to Thrive as a Stay At Home Wife or WAHW

When Brooks and I decided I was going to be a SAHW/WAHW, we knew to expect certain challenges. Things like striving to live off of one income, downsizing our lifestyle, etc. was all known to us. But, there are, also, mental challenges to being a stay at home wife {SAHW} or work at home wife!…
Project Debt Freedom

<a href=”https://www.bloglovin.com/blog/18421295/?claim=gb2bgjvbpbq”>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> Money and the simple life. It’s time to talk turkey… Project Debt Freedom is on… again. Brooks and I have always been weird when it comes to this topic – of money and keeping up with the Jones’. We are that weird couple that enjoys a simple life and…
Mini Christmas Farmhouse Tour 2015

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Truly. Christmas to me means so many things. This season just warms my heart. Celebrating the birth of our Savior, Christmas Eve service at my church, parties with family & friends, musicals at church, Christmas music. The wood stove burning, cookies baking, pot roast in the crock,…
Infertility: Our 10 Year Anniversary

This month marks a whopping 10 years that we’ve been waiting for our little bundle(s) of joy. That’s 10 years of waiting and wondering. Years of trying countless avenues with which to get pregnant (I mean how many can there be, right?!?!). Exactly 10 years ago, we fearfully and yet excitedly stopped all of our…
From the Pit to the Mountaintop and In Between

God is good. That’s all there is to it. The Holy Spirit has brought to mind the things I am to share with you today. Coffee in hand. My journal, bible, and heart are wide open. I’m ready to bring you to a level transparency that shows how in my weakness, I am made strong….
First Month @ Home Update

Well, it’s been about a month since I went full time SAHW (stay at home wife). It’s everything I’d thought it would be, plus a few surprises but it’s also been hard. SO much has happened over the last 4 short weeks that I still sit with my head spinning!
Fall Farmhouse Tour 2015

I LOVE house tours. It is one of my most favorite things to do. Especially the ones coated in fall colors, sights, and sounds. I can just smell the Home Sweet Home scent by Yankee Candle, can’t you?!?!?
Stay at Home Wife… It’s not old fashioned but a PASSION.

It’s official. I’m a Stay at Home Wife {SAHW}. Of course I’m hoping that a promotion is coming my way to Stay at Home Mom {SAHM}. But for now, my job description is everything but parenting. I finished up my last day at my paying job yesterday. I’ve always had a hard time transitioning from job…
Goin’ to Jackson

Goin’ to Jackson. That lyric was playing in my head all throughout our trip to Jackson Hole this month. While the main theme of the song and its other lyrics didn’t hold much value to my life, it was that main lyric that kept repeating in my head and heart. Brooksie and I celebrate our…