Simple Bliss…

I am a daughter of the most high God. He is my daily sustenance and guide. I never cease to be in absolute awe of where God has taken me and the things he has done in me. I seek to be constantly learning and growing in my faith as I learn to lean more on his goodness and grace to me.

I am a wife. I have been married to my wonderful husband, Cole, since August 11, 2007. He is a software engineer at Garmin, where he works to create GPS devices for marine vehicles. I am so blessed to be his wife and love learning more about how to be his helpmeet.

I am a homemaker. I enjoy working towards ensuring that our home provides warmth, comfort, and a reminder of God’s goodness to all that enter. We seek to live a life of simplicity and frugality. I believe in being a good steward of all that God has blessed us with, including our money, our resources, our home, our earth, and our bodies.

I am a crafter. I love working with my hands: scrapbooking, card making, knitting/crocheting, gardening, baking, embroidering, cross-stitching, sewing, taking pictures, making candles, and playing cello. I enjoying learning about and practicing these arts.

I am a teacher. I teach kindergarten/1st grade special education in a small Kansas town. I believe that teaching is a high calling and am excited about the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children and their families! I am almost done with the coursework to obtain my master’s degree in adaptive special education.

I am mostly MSG free. I lived with daily migraines for over five years of my life. Despite all the diagnostic tools the doctors used, no cause could be found. I decided to experiment with changing my diet to reduce my migraines; I found that when I removed MSG from my diet, the migraines almost completely disappeared.