About Me
Hi there, my name is Crystal and I love learning, reading, and healthy living to a point, I do love my chocolate and drink way more coffee than is normal. I also love essential oils, DYI crafts and journals.
Mother, wife, ministry… some of the many labels that have described me or will be describing me soon. It’s a lot, especially when it wasn’t the “plan”. I’ve always had a plan, an idea of where my life was headed from the time I was 13. However it didn’t exactly match up with God’s plan…
Recent Posts
6 Newborn Must Haves
Our newborn favorites - in my personal opinion they are the must-haves of mamas in order to make the newborn stage easier to enjoy the happy moments. Now that my little guy is almost 6 months old we’ve been going through and putting some of his newborn stuff in...
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That 4-Month Sleep Regression
...and 3 things every first time mom should know As a first-time mom, you do so much reading and googling. Looking up every little thing is just a right of passage into motherhood in this day and age. Is this normal? Is my baby peeing enough? The list just goes on. My...
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A Look Back on Our Wedding Day
Do you ever look back on your wedding day? The excitement, the tears, and the love? A couple of weeks ago my husband and I celebrated our second year of marriage. It came so quickly, I feel like I missed it. Our first anniversary I was counting down the days just like...
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The 4th Trimester: It Takes Time
The 4th trimester. I had never given much thought to it you know. There’s a lot of information out there about pregnancy and birth but not much on postpartum. I was so excited for when my baby would come. Huge bonus I would not be pregnant anymore. I wrote a brief...
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5 Favorite Children’s Books
Our favorite 5 children's books and why we chose to start reading to Malachi at such a young age. ***This post contains affiliate links. Clicking these links and making purchases provides a small compensation to me to help me keep writing and maintaining my site at...
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Malachi’s 3 Months Old
My baby is 3 months old. Some days I can’t even believe. I look at him sleeping or laughing with his dad and I just can’t believe he is growing this fast. Waiting for him to get here felt like forever, the first couple weeks felt like a long time too (I think sleep...
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