Meet Me & 31 Days {!!}

So now I've been blogging for a little while, and I've realized that because my family is such a huuge part of my life I need to mention them, but it's also kind of hard to mention them sometimes because of the vague anonymous way that I've set myself up here. It's also hard being real and honest at the same time as being vague. When I first started, I hid behind the idea of the scary internet and I didn't want to give anything personal away here.

But now I'm going to take just a wee step forward, and introduce myself a little more. Not completely {this is a wee step, after all}, but more than I have in the past.

So you probably knew, my name is Emma. yep. I've got 5 younger siblings, 1 brother and 4 sisters, and I loove it! :) I'm 17, and working my way through my last year of high school, at home {I've been homeschooled all my life :)}.

At this point in my journey I absolutely love being homeschooled, although for a while I would've given anything to go to school. I love to read, and bake {maybe a few recipes coming up here sometime in the future? :)}, and I love love love kids!

My family is totally awesome, and I really like hanging out with them. Here we all are, this picture is from last year. 

Dad, Livvy (9), AK(11), Yah-yah(15), Moocho(15), Mum, Bella-Boo(5), and myself :)*
{ages are current, not at the time of the photo ;)}

I guess that's really what I can think of to share for the moment.

And now for my exciting announcement!! :D

I am doing 31 Days this year!!

I think I first heard of 31 Days two years ago, and I followed Ann Voskamp's blog, and the Nester's, and Emily Freeman's. Last year a found a whole bunch of new ones that I have mostly followed since. I am so excited for this year, and I decided that this year, I would join in and try and write something.... so please join me as I write for 31 days {I hope lol} on Celebrating Life. 

This series is largely inspired by Shauna Niequist's book Cold Tangerines, and I caaaaan't wait to share what I've been learning about celebrating all of the beautiful things in life!

Anyone else doing 31 days? let me know so I can follow! :)

blessings,
love emma

*nicknames ;)

summer update :)

this week has been super amazing and super crazy and super exhausting so far! I'm volunteering at our VBS camp, which is called OASIS, and runs ALL day, so I'm there from 8-5, and we have swimming and stuff in the afternoon. :)

I have a bunch of 4-6 yos in my morning group and then 3 of them are my kids in the afternoon - they are so sweet! thankfully most of them are good listeners, but they sure need a lot of love and attention!!

next week I'm heading away to CYWAL, so there probably won't be a post later in the week, but I am hoping to get a Tunes Tuesday post scheduled :)

Are you doing any camps or VBSes this summer?

blessings,
emma xoxo

welcome :)

welcome to my little space :) here I hope to share the ponderings of my heart. I pray that God may use this space as a place where He will be glorified and honoured. some things that I anticipate sharing about are:

desiring the LORD, contentment (this is a biggie for me right now!!), waiting on the LORD, living in each moment (after all, that's all we ever have, right?), giving thanks, and godly womanhood among others :)

please feel free to follow along, I'd love to have you on my journey. I really really love getting comments, fyi ;)

may God bless you richly!

~em

eeeeksss :P

Hello all!!

I just wanted to pop in and let y'all know that I haven't forgotten about this!! Right now we are just in that crazy-busy transition between school-year and summer, and I really hope that I can get back to writing more regularly again very very soon!

Thank you all for reading this blog, I feel so honoured that God might use me in this! :)
Emma