by Olivia | Dec 1, 2014 | HOLINESS
See Installments One and Two. I didn’t think twice about where to begin overhauling our life. I knew that if my prayer life was not thriving, the rest of me wouldn’t, either. If our family is not rooted first and foremost in the Lord and His will, nothing...
by Olivia | Nov 24, 2014 | HAPPINESS
See the Introduction here Once I decided that we were in a terrible state of survival mode that we didn’t have to be in, the planning began shortly after. Like I said in the introduction, some sort of survival mode is simply unavoidable for us while Dave is...
by Olivia | Nov 21, 2014 | HAPPINESS
In my family, Black Friday is a grand tradition. Every Thanksgiving, precisely between dessert and second dinner (you know …), my dad’s family sits around the living room coffee table, which is overflowing with newspaper ads, and we scour through all the...
by Olivia | Nov 19, 2014 | HAPPINESS
A few months ago, Dave came home to quite a mess of a wife. Actually, he had been coming home to a mess of a wife for a while; but on this particular night, I had snapped. When Dave walked through the door, he beheld a disheveled woman who hadn’t showered (much...
by Olivia | Nov 17, 2014 | HOLINESS
I married a dreamer. And in the beginning of our relationship, it bothered me. A lot. He was (and still is) full of ideas, hopes, and goals. Big ones. Ones that, in my eyes, were impossible and, quite frankly, childish. It bothered me because he had something that I...
