It's been over a month since I've had a chance to go out to lunch with a friend. That's a really long time for me. Normally I meet up with a friend for lunch or coffee about once a week. And normally when we get together, we talk about what we're loving — television shows, books, lip balms, or whatever else. So, since I haven't had a chance to share all of my latest loves with a friend, I've decided to share what I'm loving with you. Grab your coffee and let's get to it! What I'm ... [Read More]
10 Ways to Help an Author
This may be one of the most challenging and humbling posts I've ever written. Because as much as I love sharing what's going on in my life and as much fun as it is to share books I'm reading — it feels a little weird to mix those two. {Which means, there's a pretty good chance by the end of this post my awkwardness will be on full display. Consider yourself forewarned.} So many of you have prayed for and encouraged me as I wrote the manuscript for Praying for Girls: Asking God for the ... [Read More]
5 Reasons to Choose DaySpring Planners
The next 12 months are full of big stuff for the Underwoods. My book release and Casiday's senior year are sort of the bookends to all the ink poured out on our calendars. I'm always a planner nerd ... and it's not unusual for me to switch planners if the one I'm using doesn't work for me. In fact, that very thing happened last November. DaySpring was having a great sale on their 2016-2017 planners so I ordered one. And I fell in love. Seriously. I've tried pretty much every planner out ... [Read More]
3 Reasons Gathering around a Table Matters
A few years ago I read what has become one of my favorite quotes about motherhood, The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit how difficult mothering is quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a sticky table with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops. ~ Anna Quindlan It's true, right? Those friends who've seen the mess in our homes and our hearts, who know our fears and failures, who've laughed and cried with us — not just about ... [Read More]
21 Lessons from 21 Years of Marriage
Twenty-one years ago I stood at the altar at Highland Park Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and amidst a lot of laughter and in the presence of lots of friends and family, I promised to love and honor Scott Underwood as his wife. Since then we've moved a few times, wrangled a few basset hounds, served a few churches, and even had a few health scares. We spent three years praying for a baby and we've spent just over seventeen years raising our beautiful girl. We've had some ... [Read More]
What I’m Reading {May 2017}
Can I tell you a secret? I wish I was one of those bloggers who did the "what I wore" posts. I love cute clothes and if we went to lunch or grabbed coffee one morning, I feel sure we'd chat about where your necklace came from or how much I love my Evy's Tree hoodies. But it just has never felt natural to write about those things. I've tried a few times. But writing about books? Oh yeah, I can totally do that! And the truth is, if we were at lunch after we finished chatting about our outfits, ... [Read More]
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