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If you’ve received a note in your inbox from HeartStories over the last year, you’ve read the writing of this beauty. Meet Megan Moore, the generous and kind soul behind the wisdom you receive in your weekly love notes from HeartStories. I met her last year when we were in a pinch for volunteers to support our GNO event. Our mutual friend Angela, introduced us, and after one phone call, I knew instantly she was a perfect fit for our team.

She is wise, confident and peaceful.

I get this deep sense that she can’t be rattled. Her story is such a beautiful one. It includes a journey from a marketing and event planning career in the music industry in Nashville, to following a calling in her soul, to go back to school to become a marriage and family therapist. That journey led her to Dallas, where she is now officially licensed …

Noah is determined to learn to back flip. It’s been such a fascinating experience to watch him try, over and over and over again. I thought surely after a few hard falls, he’d be ready to surrender, but that has hardly been the case. He’s watched what seems like thousands of instructional videos with tips on everything from creating a landing pad, to protecting your neck and all the steps to take in between.

He’s going to learn to back flip, I have no doubt.

Last night he asked for my help to spot him with a little extra lift on his legs to help get the over the top. I don’t think it turned out quite the way he hoped, but we sure had a great time doing it. Oakley sat there videoing the whole thing, while Noah landed wrong on every single limb of his body. Oakley and I each …

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It’s officially Fry-YAY and this one is already making his mark. While we were finishing up dinner last night, he went outside the kitchen window, grabbed a water hose and proceeded to put on a show. With music blaring, he did all sorts of ridiculous walks, that turned into wild dances. He wildly danced up and down, and side to side, for a good five minutes of riveting entertainment. It was no surprise that by the time he finished, both he and my window, had finished their evening “shower”.

We laughed hysterically from the dinner table at the vivid reminder, that there is no question, he is my son.

While that particular reminder is fun and humorous, it carries a little weight as well. I remember all the crazy things I did. I’m all too aware of the challenges I faced. I’ve learned a lot about what it’s like to live with me, …

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When I saw this picture on my camera roll, I cracked up laughing. It’s obviously not because it’s a hilarious picture. It’s because of the backstory. It was (finally) closing day on our new house. We met Myla & Charles at Scott’s office to sign all the papers in between clients and before we all rushed off our separate ways, I wanted to grab a photo. I’m relatively practiced at the reverse-camera-selfie. But that day, I was on the struggle bus.

I couldn’t get us all in to save my life.

The hilarious string of images currently on my camera roll includes a few different angles of each of us with no head. At first I was completely missing. Then Scott had no hair. Next Charles was on the loose. Myla actually had a pretty good photoshoot, come to think of it. She was perfectly centered in every one. The collective …

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I get goofy at Girls Night Out. I think it’s mostly because once the night begins, all the planning and preparing that encompasses my entire month, is over. All the curve balls, surprises out of left field and landmines have been navigated. We made it to the night. There’s nothing else I can do to prepare. All I can do is release all the dreaming, preparation, planning and expectations, in a prayer for peace and presence, doing what’s mine to do, no more, no less. That’s when I find my center.

When the moment has arrived, and it’s time to party.

Last Thursday was no different. At the beginning of the night, while the ladies were enjoying a scavenger hunt to enter their tickets into the drawing, I was goofing off in the corner. I was dancing a jig, while shaking up their raffle tickets in this gorgeous bowl (that I am …

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I’m so grateful someone captured this shot from Thursday night’s GNO, because it makes that “stage” look so Pinteresty perfect. The darling furniture from UP Inspired Kitchen and the knockout blooms from Blue Posy Floral Design might lead you to believe a professional spent hours building the stage all this gorgeousness would sit atop. Oh how I wish I had a “behind the scenes” picture as comparison.

It was anything but Pintersty perfect.

It started with measuring the height of the back booth at UP, then scouring the internet for something, anything that might possibly be exactly the same height. Lowes to the rescue with their darling steel plant stands! Hey, while I’m here, I bet they have some sort of wood we could use to lay on top. Of course they did. This engineered wood siding panel would make a perfectly strong, durable stage for the night. So I climbed on …

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Look for the Love

Don’t take “no” for an answer

Nothing is wasted

Make a few more

No more. No less.

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