Y’all…I am reading this book and it is absolutely wrecking me, in a great, great way. It’s called “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess” by Jen Hatmaker. If you are like me and really wrestling with living a life of excess, being focused on ridiculous things (or even not on ridiculous things!!), or just trying to figure out how to simplify your life, this is the book for you. I’m not going to go into the book a lot, but in short, it’s Jen talking about how she and her family identified 7 areas of excess in their lives, assigned a month to each of those areas and learned lessons from these experiments. I’m telling you…it will wreck you. Chris and I need to have some serious conversations and make some serious changes, and this book is just confirming it.

I feel like so often we get caught up in chasing the “dream”: having more money, having a big house, having the coolest “Pinteresty” decorations, cool clothes, purses…you name it, you know what I am talking about.…

I have to admit, when I was pregnant I was absolutely terrified of being a mom. When you are pregnant people have absolutely no boundaries (which drove me nuts…) and seem to tell  you only the negative about being a parent. I got comments all the time telling me how I was never going to sleep well again, I was never going to get to do anything fun or on my own, the first year is soooo miserable, nursing is awful, blah blah blah. It really blew my mind that the majority of people would tell a pregnant woman how apparently horrible my life was going to be instead of just celebrating and being excited for me . Comments like those and just the general realization about what was about to happen made me very, very nervous for Elliot to be born. Almost daily I would ask Chris “what happens if I don’t love her?” or “what if I hate being a mom and just want my old life back?” I was genuinely concerned.…

whelp, it’s been quite awhile since I posted! My blog was broken for several weeks which {partially} explains the lack of posting. The other lack of posting is due to the fact that I have a sweet, precious new baby!!

On September 20 we welcomed Elliot Louise Case into our family, and it has been such an amazing journey. She is such a sweet baby girl with such a sweet spirit…and she really loves sleeping {just like her mommy}, which makes things much, much easier around here. I took 6 weeks of maternity leave, but I stayed pretty plugged in at work while enjoying lots of snuggles with Elliot and lots of fun lunches with my mom and sisters. I have been back to work for 2 weeks now and am so, SO thankful to be in a job where I get to stay home with my girl. I honestly don’t know if I could have left her 40 hours a week.…

Ok, you saw the inspiration pinboard, and now…months later, Baby Case’s nursery is DONE! I am SO proud of how it turned out and it’s really the first room I feel like I was able to put together start to finish. Thanks to lots of inspiration from Pinterest, Young House Love and lots of other creative peeps in my life…

Hope you love it…and if you don’t….hope you don’t say anything! …

Well, my dreams of documenting this pregnancy and impending motherhood on the blog are clearly shattered seeing as I am due in 4 weeks and I haven’t posted in…almost 3 months. I’ve been thinking a lot lately how much of our life is in a total transition stage right now: our last Sunday at Cumberland is this weekend and we are transitioning into going full steam ahead with Resonate, we are having our first child in 4 weeks and transitioning out of a life of just the 2 of us to a life that is going to look VERY different…so many changes ahead!

As we head into our last Sunday at Cumberland this week something in my heart is SO excited about what is next and the vision of Resonate coming fully to life, but there is definitely a sense of greif in that as well. We have been at Cumberland since we were engaged, it is our first church home together and we are deeply, deeply invested in the ministry and the people there.…

I’m sorry, but if this doesn’t make you laugh, then you don’t appreciate humor. End of story.

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