We move through our days doing and going and playing and wiping. Loving and supporting and praying and help-mating. We strive and we toil and we drink a lot of coffee. Then we lay down in our beds and wonder if we did enough. If we are enough to the people who truly matter most
Author: Emily P. Blackwell
Wife, mama, writer, reader, dreamer, creative.
How to Make Your House More Homey
I know…you thought I’d never get to this, right? Well get to it I have but I’m not promising anything life changing! 1. It’s not about perfection. Truth is I’ve been in some seriously gorgeous homes that have no warmth to them whatsoever. They were spectacular to look at but didn’t beckon me to come
Overloaded!
Well, folks, I’m overloaded. Again. I have a sickness. It’s official. But God is teaching me so much through Experiencing God! And I want to tell you all about it. But for now I will just have to share a journal entry. I give you the exact words of a barely awake Mama… You will
New York. Dreams
There is still another day of New York fun to share with all of you, but for now I want to attempt to tap, tap some thoughts out regarding the way the trip got down in my soul. I deeply and truly loved NYC. It identifies with the ambition inside of me. The ambition that
New York. Day 2
Our adventure in downtown! Enjoy 🙂
New York. Day 1
Because I was in charge of video, all pictures are stolen from the other 7 members of our trip. And because SO much happened each day, I am making a video for each day. The first one is 9-ish minutes long. Consider yourself warned. And because I forgot to include pictures of the delicious pizza
Oh Hunk of Mine
We were 17 and terribly in love…all “one day when we get married” and “never enough kisses.” And he would babysit with me, playing shamelessly with those kiddos…oblivious to my house playing shennanigans. I knew then that he would be an incredible Daddy and something about that made me love him a little deeper. Right
I think of my Daddy
Sometimes when I fancy myself something beyond my training…like a lawyer or a doctor or a journalist, I think of my Daddy and how he would say that I could be any of those things. And he would mean it but love me if I never quite accomplished any of them. Sometimes when I watch
Prolific Reader…or just Reader
When I attended the She Speaks conference nearly a year ago I set some goals for myself…goals that I derived directly from the brilliant and gracious already established writer speakers. One of them was to become a prolific reader. This has proven to be a little tricky with a toddler in my home, but I’m