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From Mixed Tapes to School-Supply Shopping Dates: Our Romance After All These Years - Blessed Is She

From Mixed Tapes to School-Supply Shopping Dates: Our Romance After All These Years

There used to be coffee and hot cocoa dates (because up until last fall, I didn't drink coffee). There were flowers. Pearl earrings. Homemade steak dinners (cooked by Fence, of...
Why You Should Get Away With Your Spouse and How To Actually Do It - Blessed Is She

Why You Should Get Away With Your Spouse and How To Actually Do It

After navigating the early years of parenting, our family has solidly entered middle-childhood. Although the frustrations of potty-training and sleepless nights have shifted to arguments over bedtimes and screen time,...
When My Marriage Needed More than a Date - Blessed Is She

When My Marriage Needed More than a Date

In order to make the house run and my sanity stay locked in place, I have systems and more systems. I have routines. I have check lists. I have long...
Marriage Can Wait - Blessed Is She

Marriage Can Wait

I can wait to get married. There I said it. As a 20 year old woman in college, I watch as many of my peers happily get hitched or find...
Self Control is More Important Than Saving Rent - Blessed Is She

Self Control is More Important Than Saving Rent

I marry my fiancé, Steven, in 95 days. Wow. For part of our relationship, Steven and I lived in seperate states. I worked as a campus ministry intern in Virginia,...
I Chose Life. And His Name is Lexington Anthony. - Blessed Is She

I Chose Life. And His Name is Lexington Anthony.

At 23, I was bartending, serving at my favorite restaurant, working two other jobs and finishing up college. At 23 I was going going going all the time- and it...
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // MARRIAGE - Blessed Is She

#BISsisterhood Link-Up // MARRIAGE

Today we are talking about MARRIAGE. The second week of February was National Marriage Week, a week in which the bishops of our Church called on us to promote, strengthen,...
The Joy of 'Yes' Forever - Blessed Is She

The Joy of 'Yes' Forever

When my husband and I were dating I can remember excitedly preparing for date nights, heading out and discovering the joy and simplicity of being in one another’s presence, becoming...