Creating, sharing, and inspiring connects us all together. Every day we are drawn to blogs that make us feel something, and we take a little piece of it with us. Behind every one of our favorite blogs, there's a person. A person with real emotions, fears, goals, and weird quirks that we never really get to experience first hand. We've brought together your favorite bloggers to give you a more intimate take on their lives, so you can catch the little details that make them who they are. Every Wednesday, we'll be capturing the lives of the people behind your daily reads in a way that you wont experience anywhere else.
So get ready. We have lots to share! xoxo
Each week on Casey's blog, you will hear a more personal story about one of your favorite bloggers.... why they are the way they are, stories on loss or happiness, struggles or triumphs...we want to have them share the happiest moment of their life, or a time that they grew stronger because of an enormous trial placed in their path.
On my blog, they will be sharing any advice they have for you readers. It can be about fashion, being a mom or wife, how to grow your blog, how to start your own business, etc. Whatever their niche is, you will hear their expert advice!
I'm SO excited to have Kelly on the blog today! When I first emailed her about posting, I totally thought, "Theres no way she's going to email me back! I bet she gets swamped with these things!" And then she did...and I squealed...and got really excited.
So, if you haven't met this blogging superstar yet,
go visit her HERE after you read her personal post.
And welcome to you coming from Kelly's page! I'm excited to meet you!
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My name is Kelly Stamps!
I live in Northwest Arkansas. I grew up in a
tiny town in Arkansas as a Southern Baptist preacher's daughter and went
to college at Ouachita Baptist University.
The theme of my life has been trusting God. In all things. I went to college to get my M.R.S. degree. All I ever wanted to be was a wife and mother. I did not graduate with a "ring by spring" or even a boyfriend. I waited on God IMPATIENTLY and one month before I turned 30 - I married my husband Scott.
The next season of waiting and trusting was while we waited for a child. We
tried for over 3 years to have a baby and were blessed with our miracle
daughter Harper. After a healthy pregnancy, Harper was born not breathing and we were told she
wouldn't live through the night. She was air flighted to a different
state and spent a month in the NICU. That was a tough time of trusting God. She recovered and is now almost three and is a strong willed, hilarious, precious girl who keeps me
on my toes. We were surprised with another pregnancy and we now have a
second daughter Hollis who is almost 9 months old and is the sweetest
baby in the world. I am crazy in love with my two girls and love
dressing them up and spending every day with them as a stay at home mom.
We are in a minor season of trusting God with Harper. She was diagnosed this summer with moderate hearing loss and we are working through wearing hearing aids and taking speech therapy. I have no doubt God gave her a firecracker personality so that her hearing loss would never hold her back. I think God is going to actually use it to do mighty things in her life and I never expect it to be something that makes her any less "normal'. We call her hearing aids her "special ears" because we think this is just one more thing about her that makes her special!
How could I not trust God now in all parts of my life after all the ways He has seen me through. I learn more about Him every day and have been blessed beyond anything I KNOW I deserve. I am thankful to have the blog community to share my life, family and faith with. It is an unexpected and amazing blessing!
I love all the amazing people that the blog world has allowed me to get to know!!
I would love to have you come visit my amazing blog community - it is a very encouraging place. I like it to hopefully be a place where people can come to get lifted up! We have a fun thing we do on Fridays called "Show Us Your Life" - it's a great way to share your blog and connect with other bloggers! I hope you will join me HERE.
Go read her advice post on Casey's blog HERE
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