• Living

    21 Years and Counting!

    Today, John and I celebrate 21 years of marriage!💛 It’s strange how time can fly by and feel like it hasn’t has passed at all, all in the same breath. Marriage is often the extraordinary sprinkled in with the everyday things that fill our lives — it possesses the perplexing quality of being both exhilarating and downright frustrating — and often at the same time😂! John and I have had to fight through A LOT in our early years of marriage, but recently, we’ve discovered we worked through a lot of those things — or maybe it’s just that we’ve learned to accept that some things won’t change about the…

  • Living,  Traveling

    Looking Back: 17 Years of Marriage

    This weekend, John and I are celebrating 17 years of marriage!   So, I thought I’d dedicate this post to the man I married 17 years ago. On our wedding day, John’s sisters told me that I would never be bored.  They were so right. This guy keeps adventure alive in our house!   I’m so glad I took that great big leap of faith and agreed to marry him on a sunny day in Glendalough so many years ago!  Our Engagement: Ireland was a big part of our beginning.  Our first time together in Ireland was when John visited me and my family for Thanksgiving– we were visiting my sister, who was working there…