Category: <span>faith</span>

365 Days: Love, John Karl

365 days. 52 weeks. 1 Halloween, 1 Thanksgiving, 1 Christmas, 1 New Year’s, 1 Valentine’s Day, 1 Easter, 1 Mother’s Day, 1 Father’s Day, 1 Fourth of July. 2 family…

The Stages of Grief and the One They Forgot

The Stages of Grief and the One They Forgot (May 27, 2015)The very outdated copy of my undergraduate psychology book uses the Kubler-Ross Model to describe the stages of grief. …

What I’m Ready to Share About Infant Loss: Demise & Wicked Emotion

If you know me at all, you know that I am an open book. I quite literally will tell you anything you want to know about me. I have little,…

What I’m Ready to Share About Infant Loss:The Backstory

I plan to share the whole story of John Karl's loss. So many friends and family, and even strangers have been so supportive of us during this darkness. Some have…

TV = Drug, I’m OK with that

Ask me what I'm doing right now. Go ahead...ask."Hey, Misty, what are you doing right now?"Oh me. I'm binge watching episodes from Season 4 of Scandal. I watched all of…

Slacking

So totally slacking on my journal blogging! So sorry! I joined a women's Bible study at our church. It's a book/video series titled Unglued by Lysa Terkeurst. It might possibly…

Alzheimer’s is stupid & Sticky notes

Missed yesterday. I'm certain that the 1000's of you who are reading are utterly disappointed. Rest assured, it was for good reason. We (husband and girls and I) drove to…

Random Thoughts

So today went swimmingly...and I'm totally referencing the film "Finding Nemo" where Dori sings the "just keep swimming" jingle. ;) Today it worked. My "day" began around 11:30pm last night.…

Today, is the 1st blank page…

Oh, crap. Here we go. I made a blog. How many other people do you think are starting out 2013 in this exact same way? I'm guessing about half a…

Misty Oerther

Hi! I’m Misty. I’m a faith-driven wife, mom, lover of travel (a planner of vacations), and a passionate educator. I want to share all of the things I know and love with you because I believe in making life easier, happier, and way more fun usually with a side of sass. I also believe in being comforted when it isn’t. I know some things about faith, family, travel, and education so if you are seeking a resource from a someone who has tried all the things (with both success and failure)…I’m your girl.