Hello, there! I am so glad you are here on my blog. I hope that you can find encouragement here on your walk through life as a fellow mom.

My name is Britta & I’ve loved to write ever since I was a little girl. Though I’m not the greatest at making up imaginative stories, I am very good at recording facts, opinions and ideas. The thought of having a place to keep a record of those random thoughts, opinions, & dreams of mine in one place sounded amazing… so I made a blog!

Besides being a stay-at-home mom and homeschooling my 3 crazy kids, I also help my husband a lot with his job as an associate/youth pastor. We enjoy working together as a team, and I enjoy being able to use my administrative and organizing skills to help him.

My hobbies (besides writing) include reading and cleaning. I love historical and biblical fiction more than any other genre, and I absolutely delight in cleaning, organizing & throwing stuff away. Weird, I know… but it’s just what I do best!

My favorite moments are usually found in the mid-morning – on a rainy, cloudy or snowy day in the fall or winter – with a hot cup of coffee in one hand and my well-loved Bible or a good book in the other. These also happen to be the moments when I get most of my best writing ideas.

Though these are my interests, I don’t feel like I can properly explain who I am in just a few paragraphs about the things that I enjoy, because there is just so much more to me. So if you care to know, here are some of the things that make me who I am.

• Jesus is my Lord & Savior. There is nothing in my life that I am more sure of or that means more to me than Jesus – when everything else fails, his goodness remains. His faithfulness has brought me through so much & is part of EVERY story that I have to share.
• I was a YWAM missionary for 2.5 years
• I’ve travelled all over the world (Grenada + Puerto Rico + Dominican Republic + Uganda + Tanzania + D.R. Congo + Turkey + Romania + Transylvania + Moldova)
• I was homeschooled for my entire life and am homeschooling my own babies now. 
• I am obsessed with names; their origin and their meanings. I believe that the names that you give your children are incredibly important and that God will choose their names if you let him.
• I struggled through body image issues and an eating disorder. Thankfully, God has freed me from the chains of self-hatred and shown me how he feels about me. I’ve been given the opportunity to share my story, to teach and love on younger women who struggle with this as well and show them the freedom that comes from knowing Jesus.
• I grew up with 7 siblings, 5 of whom were younger and I helped raise. And yes, I loved having a big family!
• I am a musician. I play piano + guitar + vocal well… and flute/violin/drums mediocrely. I like to tell people that I probably wouldn’t be musical if my family wasn’t so into it. I’m a more logical person than I am artistic so I think I just picked up what was being thrown into my life. I love it, nevertheless!
• I have survived cancer. A Frantz tumor was found on my pancreas in fall of 2016 and removed in January of 2018 by the Whipple procedure. Because of this surgery I now have pre-diabetes, GERD, nausea, diarrhea, inefficient digestion, and trouble keeping on weight. This makes being a mama tough some days, but I have so much more compassion for others who have chronic illnesses and pain and are still doing so much in spite of it!
• My husband became a pastor. I always said I would never marry a pastor. And I didn’t. But then God called him to the ministry, despite never having gone to seminary or any Bible school for that matter. This has been a leap of faith for us, but SO good in SO many ways.
• And of course, I am a mama. My lifelong dream has always been to be a mother and wife. God blessed us with our first child about one week after my tumor was found. We let it sit until after he was born (which was a crazy story in and of itself) and when my son was 4 months old I had my surgery. We have had one miscarriage, and we have two girls as well. 

Now that you know more about who I am, I hope you can come along with me on my journey of life, homeschooling, motherhood, marriage & following Jesus!