Everything started here
I started writing on a blog called 29 Lincoln Avenue sixteen years ago. The name for my first blog came from the street address of the home I grew up in a small town in Southern Indiana. I loved the idea of inviting you into my “blog home” every week.
It was through learning to write and create content there (and then here) that I discovered my love for words and my voice as a writer. When I started, Twitter and Facebook were the rage and blogging found a unique place that would be writers (like me) were able to practice publishing more than a handful of words at at time.
Through blogging I started writing books. I am eternally grateful for that opportunity to put something more of my heart in the hands of those who are bookish by nature.
But even with Instagram, youTube, and every other social media option out there—I still love to add a few words here.
And I suspect I always will.
Multitude Monday
Counting 1,000 Gifts... {Remembering} #581 Eight years ago today, I received the sweetest Christmas gift. #582 The blizzard my husband brought me to celebrate. #583 How she and I spent our first night together watching IU basketball. #584 My 3 year old coming to visit...
The Best Of {More Christmas Goodies}
{For your family} Christmas Scavenger Hunt :: via Christmas Change. (be sure to read the questions in the comments, they are awesome.) Christmas Change is a blog dedicated to helping you re-think Christmas by spending less and giving more. It is packed with heart...
A Cookie. A Story
Do you know Kendra of My First Kitchen? Well you should! I found her this October when she took part in the 31 Days Campaign. She shared 31 days To An Inspired Table. I loved her sweet and easy to follow ideas! This month she is hosting a Cookie Contest {remember...
Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room (Part 1) {Giveaway}
Jesus never forces Himself on us or into any area of our lives where we do not welcome Him. So if we want Jesus to move in we have to make room for Him. page 39, reading for December 14. This little book has got me thinking about preparing my heart for Jesus as...
Grace Notes
Grace... It calls to me, one who is weary from doing and tired of hearing herself speak. It says, "Sit here awhile with me". Grace is a newborn baby in a manger reaching up from swaddling clothes. It is the second name of my second daughter with golden hair and...
Multitude Monday
Last night I found myself fearful and emotional. I came here, to this counting place and I remembered... His gifts. The overwhelming grace. The simple ones. God moments. Each one - nearly 600 of them. And I came face to face with the One who can do all things and is...
For You {The Best of Christmas Edition}
For Your Heart: When Your Heart Feels Hurried :: by a true heart encourager,Holley Gerth For Your Gifts: By the ever so creative Emily, Jones Design Company :: Free, click here. For Your Worship. A Thousand Things :: by Christa Wells My prayer for you today is for...
Christmas Traditions :: Have Fun, Be a Cool Mom
We make lots of Chocolatey Memories. We read this and laugh hysterically! (And I cry a little bit at the end): We have art days: And in the end, I get a whole lot more of these: **What do you to have fun and be a cool mom during the Christmas Season? I'd love to...
Christmas :: Martha (Stewart) Dreams and a Mary Heart {Part 2}
"...but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her." Luke 10:42 NIV December is packed full with celebrations, shopping, baking, and memory making. I love every minute of it. But, as I pour...
Christmas: Martha (Stewart) Dreams and A Mary Heart {Part 1}
They arrived in my mailbox in November. Martha, Southern Living and BH&G all inviting me to deck the halls abundantly. Visions of garland, homemade cookie ornaments, and life size nativities danced in my head. "Even though I live in Florida, I CAN create a winter...