enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: be brave

  • February was a blur. A giant, messy, beautiful blur. I cried more tears of frustration in the past month than in the past eleven months put together. Paul leaving was hard. Buying a house by myself was hard. Getting a move organized alone was hard. Sitting on the phone with insurance to get a new…

  • Paul deployed this past weekend. The photo above is from Tuesday as I enjoyed my breakfast with him via FaceTime and filled him in on our new house inspection. It's different this time than last. Everything is different. He is not in a warzone. This deployment is scheduled to be shorter. He will most likely…

  • January was good. I did pretty well on my bold intentions for the month and am pretty sure I've set yoga up to be if not a "daily habit", an at least a "few times a week habit". We made great progress on the house hunt (even though there was a few days of sheer…

  • In December, I talked a bit about my one little word for 2013 and shared photos of the album I'll be putting together throughout this year. The album is a photo and written diary and much more personal to me than our Project Life album. I am taking Ali's One Little Word online course this…

  • Last year, at the beginning of every month, I shared a list of goals I wanted to accomplish over the 30 day period. Some times it went better than others (you can read about my experience here). I used "choose," my word for 2012, to remind myself that the goals I set were choices. I…

  • I started to consider brave for my 2013 one little word last September. It popped into my head and I figured I would keep it in mind unless something better came along. And while a lot ended up coming along, a better word did not. At the time, all I really knew was that Paul…