The weird thing about March 2020 and the whole Coronavirus scare is ... well, honestly ... I can’t finish that sentence.  Because the weird thing is everything.  All the things.  Each one.  There is nothing normal about the life we are all living right now. I took my one-year-old in to her pediatrician for a recurring ear infection and left with the recommendation to quarantine ourselves.  She had an upper respiratory infection, and our local hospital’s standard...

My friend, Dacia, runs her own business from home and has two adorable little kids.  She recently posted on her IG stories about being home alone and randomly catching herself calling out “what?”  She just laughed about it and said, “that’s how many times my name (aka ‘mom’) has been called in the last 24 hours ... I’m just conditioned to call out ‘what?’ every so often.” If that doesn’t sum up the life of a mom, I don’t know what does.   Motherhood is made up of countless...

Either two days ago or twenty-five years ago, our country started preparing for a global pandemic.  I’ve honestly lost all notion of time at this point.  Ha! But here we are, an uncertain amount of time later, with our children home from school, restaurants shut down, events cancelled, churches changing their methods, doctors issuing new warnings every day, and not one loaf of bread to be found for miles. While I feel small and insignificant in light of the chaos that is going on, I...

Welcome to The Flourish Studio! I am so excited for this rebrand for my little business. At the end of 2019, I knew that God was leading me somewhere specific for 2020. It wasn't like this big push or loud voice from Heaven, but more of a gentle nudging to dive in deeper. I started this hand lettering business in March of 2019 under my own name as a way to share the projects I was working on and maybe make a few extra dollars for our family. As the year unfolded, it grew and changed and became...