I started writing down some of the stories about the miracles that I experienced last year in 2023, as friends and family had been wanting to about what happened and what I experienced in 2023. I am still writing down all these stories of the miracles I witnessed and experienced last year. The more I write,…

Life is hard. That’s a very unpleasant fact of life. But it can still be good while also being simultaneously hard. I’ve seen it, I’ve experienced it, and I know that it has and is only possible because of Jesus Christ, and it can become possible for us as we draw nearer to God and…

Today, July 22nd, 2024, marks the 14-year anniversary of the date I started this blog, A Life Most Bountifully Blessed, for the very first time. It was my very first blog, and when I started it, the things I wrote about were a little bit different from what I now write here. But I have…

Saturday, June 15th, 2024 I woke up, not early like I like to wake up, but I got up. I think it was about 9:00 am, which is sleeping in extremely late for my natural body rhythm and inner “clock”. I normally cannot sleep in past 7:00 am to 7:30 am, unless I am really…

I am still recovering somewhat from being sick a few weeks ago, but this week I pushed myself a little, so I could try to get back into a daily routine and rhythm. I rely on routine and rhythm, heavily, and it helps me to better regulate my emotions and prevent my autonomic nervous system…

Life has consistently tried to get in the way of me keeping this gratitude journal and diary for the past long, long time. So right now, today, I’m going to quickly write down at least some bare minimum notes, or however much I can write (remember about) the things that have happened in my life…

I’ve had a lot on my heart and mind lately; a lot of things on my heart and mind that are dear to my heart and which I have not only enthusiastically embraced for more than a decade now (almost 15 years), but which have also encompassed and entangled the very fibers of my soul….

I’ve been working on something… I’ve been playing quite a bit lately. I’ve also been working on finishing the lyrics to a song that I’ve been working on for over a decade. I started writing it the summer I was pregnant with my second baby. This is the main melody of the song I’ve been…

I’ve been having a difficult time keeping up with my goal of writing here in this journal every day, so I’m going to try to write once a week for a while and see if I can keep up with that goal. I have been so busy lately. All sorts of busy. Good busy. Stressful…

I have a really hard time remembering what I get done every day. I feel down often over it, and it’s one of the things that contributes to my depression. So, this morning, I wanted to write down what I can remember about yesterday, before I forget. What I got done yesterday: I could probably…

It’s late, and I’m tired, but I wanted to try to write down at least something about my day today. Today was bit of a blur for me, and I’m so tired that I don’t remember much of it right now. But I remember this: I felt hopeful and optimistic. I’m not even sure for…

Today had it’s challenges, but I also had a few “wins”. I somehow managed to have enough strength to decorate (fill in the gaps in the branches) of our Christmas tree – a project that took more than an hour to do. It wasn’t anything difficult, it was just time consuming and required me to…

Life lately has been… I don’t even have adequate words. I’ll just call it “hard”. Really hard. Life has been really hard lately. Strangle enough, the harder it gets and the more challenges I face and the more struggles I encounter from day to day confirm to me that I need to keep a diary…

Life has been so stressful and hard this year. I was going to write about what’s made it a hard year, and maybe at some point I will write a little bit about that. But I have decided that I want to focus on what’s going “right” in my life right now, and focus on…

Today and yesterday I have sat down more than a handful of times each day and have attempted write something, anything, so that I could post a journal entry here on my blog and to try to establish a consistent habit of writing regularly. But the last few years I have struggled to write and…

It is so late in the evening, and at nearly 11:00pm, I am up well past my preferred bedtime, as the demands of the day have thrown me off of my routine, but I need to write at least a few words before I retire for the evening. Today, I am grateful for my trials…

Life has been particularly hard for me lately. Not that I don’t normally experience difficult struggles, and on the contrary, actually, as life, for me, has never without it’s struggles for me, with some varying level of chronic depression ever present every day of my life… This year, however, has been especially challenging in new…

During 2012-2013, a few ideas came to me to help me get through the darkness and find a way to see the good that existed, even though it as so difficult to see because life felt so extremely sad and dark at the time. I just wanted to believe that there was still a chance…

Home is anywhere we are together. “…for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge…” Ruth 1:16.

From 2013: For all you stay-at-home moms, you do have a career! Motherhood may not be a paid occupation, but it is very much a profession and a WORTH WHILE cause. EVERYONE needs a MOTHER. #Irreplaceable

–Breaking Stigmas– May 19, 2016 There are stigmas attached to just about everything. They are nothing more than unfair generalized negative beliefs about someone or something.  In particular are two that just hit a little too close to home.  Depression and physical limitations. There should be no shame in admitting that we battle with either…

May 19, 2016 Life is not perfect. For anyone. Someone has to say it. But it can still be extremely good. It can be happy. Despite the imperfections we see in our lives and in ourselves. My house is nothing like a magazine. Our furniture is almost entirely second hand, much of it… “free”. It’s…

May 19, 2016 I am more and more convinced that the quality of our lives are not so much dependent on what we can’t change but what we can. One of the biggest of those things that can be changed is our perspective. Perhaps perspective on how we see our circumstances, but I want to…

My parents, were really good at capturing our moments growing up. Especially my mom. She was always behind a camera or camcorder capturing a moment somewhere. There’s barely a picture in the house with her in it because she was almost always the one behind it. I am particularly thankful that she had the foresight…

4-20-16 Keeping a journal has this neat way of telling our own story in a new way for ourselves when we go back and read it later. We recognize blessings we hadn’t realized before, we find inspiration to combat current challenges by the way we overcame previous ones (but had completely forgotten how it played out), we…

I started this blog 6 years ago this summer in hopes of capturing our family’s adventures and memories and shenanigans. 6 years later… I haven’t used this blog much for documenting our life, but I have been pretty good the last 3 years about using other ways to document and capture our life through picture…

Something that has repeatedly spoke to me over the course of my lifetime has been the need to recognize and soak up the things that are beautiful in their own way that surround me every day. While I have known for a long time that their is beauty everywhere in life if you are willing…

So many people have asked me the same question (I don’t know how many times) over the last 6 years. To be summed up, “What do you REALLY want to do with your life, you know, if you didn’t stay home with the kids? What’s your dream career?” Honestly? I’m living it! I never wanted…

One of my longest living dreams since childhood has been to raise a family and to raise that family on acres and acres of wild farm land and share with them the joys of the simple life I enjoyed growing up. I never even had to think about it. It was never even a question in…

August 12, 2015 As I was leaving the room after tucking Hayden in I hear a tiny “Sweet deems”.

March 17, 2014 My Gardening Goals: Keep A Gardening Journal *Record early spring weather and temperatures/month/day *Record what and when you planted/ from seed/ start/ transplanted/ etc *Record how many seeds per hole you planted and how many sprouted. *Record when certain pests emerged *Recording harvest/keeping track of how much comes out of the garden/weighing the…

The Frugal Plan for Frugal Living A coupon here, bulk-buy there, a “buy-one-one-get-one” sale here… how much are we actually saving? Here’s what I already do at home Bulk-buys!! I love buying bulk! Flour, sugar, spices, cereal, dog treats, – there is an amazing selection when it comes to bulk foods and items out there,…

I found this old post just waiting for me to finish it. It has become a great focal point for sharing something special our family enjoys together. August 2010When I was 17, my dad handed down to me one of my most treasured and memorable items that lay in our household growing up. It’s through…

8/15/2010SO! We finally had an ultrasound and found out wonderful news! Baby is a healthy 9oz at the 19 weeks and 5 days’ appointment last week!     We were blessed enough to actually SEE our child’s face on screen for the first time! (But of course, we are much more excited to see their…