After reading 100 books in a year, I learned a lot about myself, my reading habits, and why I won’t read that many books in a year again anytime soon. This post contains affiliate links. 15 Things I Learned from Reading 100 Books in a Year I like using a 5 star rating process for…
I have thought about how to write this blog post at least a dozen times. I’m still not 100% sure what I want to say, but after not posting anything new in this space for 9 months – it is time. After being in this blogging world for 12 years, I have seen many of…
As of today, I have been blogging for a full decade. 10 years of blogging! Happy Blogging Anniversary to me and you. On December 18, 2009, I published my very first blog post. It was a riveting post titled Welcome to Simply Rebekah. The post contained 134 words, no images, and an embarrassing number of…
Grace turned 8 last year, and we celebrated with an adorable and affordable owl birthday party. (I am a little behind on sharing our birthday party fun here on the blog.) Birthday parties in our house are always land somewhere in between “Pinterest Perfect” and “Minimalist Fun.” I want our parties to have fun decorations, but…
Year end reviews have always been popular in the blogging world. It has been years since I’ve shared a collection of my most popular posts from the year, so yesterday I sat down to look at the numbers. I pulled up all of the traffic my blog received in 2017, and what I found really…
Grief is an extremely intimate thing. Usually, we aren’t given a choice when it comes to inviting people into our circle of grief. When a person dies, we can’t hide it. However, we can limit how many people know about a miscarriage. So then the question becomes: what are the pros and cons of telling people about…