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Happy Planner Squad Class of 2020-2021

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Today, May 2nd, 2020 The Happy Planner opened applications for the 2020-2021 Squad! All the nerves have come alive, as well as all the excitement! I’m going to share with you all about the squad, and then some of my opinions about it!

First, The Happy Planner Squad is made up of planner babes and planner dudes who totally love and radiate all that The Happy Planner stands for: positivity, encouragement, inspiring, uplifting, kind, and of course happy (this was taken straight from The Happy Planner website)! They are also looking for individuals who will exclusively use their product and share it on their social media platforms, namely, Instagram. You will also have to submit two projects a month and keep new product confidential until it has been announced! The last is to, of course, be creative and original in the way you use the product (there’s more in depth on their website!)

The application process is fairly simple. Go to their website https://thehappyplanner.com/pages/squad-applications-now-open and click apply now! There is a short form to fill out that includes your name, email, phone number, address, and links to your social media accounts. The new fun twist is that you will have to film a one minute video of why you think you would be a good fit for The Happy Planner Squad! Simple as that, yet so nerve-wrecking!

Now lets get to the meat of what I want to talk about! This community needs each and every person in it. No matter who you are, your planning style, why you plan, or if you are apart of The Happy Planner Squad or not, YOU MATTER! You are valuable for this community, and without you, it wouldn’t be the same. I love everything I see in the community, and feel inspired by each and every person I come across in some way or another!

Whether you make the Squad, are applying or not, keep doing you, keep creating and using your planner. Remember why you started planning in the first place. It most likely wasn’t to be a squad member! It was probably to help you plan a life you love, to become organized, to have a creative outlet, or any other reason you may have started. So focus on that if you don’t make it, there’s always next year! Keep doing you, because you rock!

Good luck planner babes, and remember, the Squad doesn’t define who you are, whether you are valued in the planner community, or a “good enough” planner or not! You are amazing just the way you are!

Remember to check in with yourself throughout the process, check your heart, and if you ever need to reach out, I’m here! You can always email me at amberplansherday@gmail.com or message me on Instagram @amberplansherday! Never stop being you planner babe!

Much love

💜Amber Thorne

Life Update Dec. 2, 2019

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Wow it has been a while since I’ve written to you all, and let me just say, life has been a crazy ride!

I delivered my sweet daughter, Rose Elaina, on September 26, 2019

After our foster son left us on September 12, 2019, I went into full preparation mode for the delivery of our first daughter, Rose Elaina, which I delivered on September 26, 2019. She and I were both healthy and in great spirits. Our hospital stay lasted a little longer than planned due to some jaundice Rose was working through, and since then life has been one big blur.

Our foster daughters meeting Rose for the first time.

The two foster children we still had came home when Rose was one week old. That means we have a newborn, two year old, and an almost four year old in our home, and it was busy! We had a ton of Dr. appointments, therapy, starting pre-school, foster care team visits, and transitioning to me being a stay at home mom.

As you can imagine, all of these added things requires a lot more planning. So the good thing is, I have still been planning, just in a slightly different way than I used to. I have a lot more commitments that need to be jotted down in the week, and that shows if you check out my Instagram (@amberplansherday). I have been using a lot more colorful boxes and decorating in a different way than ever before, and let me just say, I’m loving it!

Rose Elaina at two months old

We now have a two month old who is doing absolutely phenomenal, and I’m ready to start writing to you all again, whether about my life or planning.

Thanks for following along with my crazy life, and I’m excited to keep on sharing with you all in the near future.

As always, check me out on YouTube (@amberplansherday) and on Instagram (@amberplansherday).

💜Amber Thorne

How my miscarriage prepared me for foster care

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As a parent, I never thought there would be any other pain like losing your own child. You take the first positive test and your heart fills with joy, only to be destroyed days, weeks, or months later. When I took the calling to care for and love children that weren’t mine, I never thought I would experience the loss in the same way.

But here I am, near six months after taking a phone call in the middle of the night for a 14 month old little boy, experiencing the same overwhelming grief I did over a year ago. Today I am saying goodbye as he transitions to his aunts home, losing a boy who doesn’t know me any different than “mommy”. Mike drove us and our other foster children to his aunts work. We prayed for him and said goodbye. I handed him to his aunt as he cried “no, mommy”, and I walked quickly back to the car to hide my tears.

The pain is real.

For both children, I was a safe haven, whether in my home, or in my womb. Both knew me as their mom, one to provide for them, keep them safe, and love them until their time came, but no one warned me that time doesn’t care.

Time… it came too soon. I had to say goodbye too early.

Now, I sit in his empty room, leaning against his crib as I weep and pray for his little life. Just as I did over a year ago with my womb. God keep him safe, help him feel loved, help him not feel alone. Keep his future bright, and don’t let him lose the sense of adventure he sought out when he was here. I hope for who they both would of been if they stayed, even for just one more day.

“Oh, if I just had one more day”, I cry.

I would hold them tighter, pray for them harder, tell them I love them more, cherish every moment as they learn new things, and spend much more quality time with each. I hope they are both getting plenty of that now.

I knew signing up for foster care, I would be risking my heart; loving with the chance to lose every time, but it was worth it. Whether our sweet boy will ever feel that same love again is an unknown to me, so I’m glad he was able to get it while he was here. If not me than who?

And there were good times, oh so many good times. I watched this little boy flourish, grow, feel safe and loved. I cuddled him when he got hurt, I watched him learn new things, I helped him calm when he was walking through some serious emotions. I know he felt the love of the Lord because we were the vessel to give it. We read to him, sang to him, and prayed over him, not because it’s easy, but because He deserves the glory. Doing foster care without Him seems quite impossible, it is because of Jesus dying for me that I can now share that love with children who need it. I don’t take that responsibility lightly.

Although this loss is tremendous, as my miscarriage was too, I know my efforts are meaningful. Whether I rocked you in my arms, or my womb, the time it took to watch you grow was worth it. I know it was exactly where I was supposed to be in that season.

We’ve said goodbye to 20 children since starting foster care just shy of a year ago, and each time it stung, but this one left a fracture to my heart, one that will take time to heal.

So tonight I’ll be seeking the Lord, seeking for healing and for a perspective change. I feel burnt by these feelings and I don’t want to keep going, but I know that this risk to love was worth it. I shall hold on to that and ask the Lord to renew my heart and keep me going as we still have two girls with us and I’m sure many more children to come. May You renew my expectations, oh Lord, may You prepare my heart to love again, even though there is always the chance for loss. Renew my tainted lenses and turn them to You, help me keep loving when the times become hard.

Thank you God for the time I did have. Whether that be weeks or months, I’m grateful. My life is forever changed because of all the children you have allowed us to love, even the sweet baby I lost from my womb.

The loss is real, the pain is there, but it’s worth it. I’d rather love and lose every time because the Lord called me to it, and I have Him to lean on in the pain, than not love these children at all. The pain of my miscarriage, and how I grieved through that will continue to help me grieve the loss that is so real when you lose a foster child. Thank you Lord for being there to lean on in the midst of painful moments, and thank you for making loving children worth every moment.

I’m reminded of the song “Weep with Me” by Rend Collective. My friend shared it with me as I was walking through my miscarriage, and now it’s on repeat again as I lament this tremendous loss.

Yet I will praise you
Yet I will sing of Your name
Here in the shadows
Here I will offer my praise
What’s true in the light
Is still true in the dark
You’re good and You’re kind
And You care for this heart
Lord I believe you weep with me

Here in the midst of my lament
I have faith, yes I still beleive
That You love me
Your plans are to prosper me
You’re working everything for good
Even when I can’t see

Weep with me
Lord will you weep with me

💜Amber

Foster Friday Update 7-19-19

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Wow, have I been missing for just over a week, which is not at all what I wanted for this blog. I’m okay with that though because, well, life happens.

Last Saturday, July 13, we got four new foster kiddos (two were only for the weekend). We had five children in our home, and we were beat! Talk about super mom, and dad! Well Monday came and two of the kiddos left, but that left us with three fun loving kids! We still have our one foster son, he has been with us for three months, and now we have two girls! A two year old and a three and a half year old. They are such sweet babes, but we have our hands full!

When a new child comes into your home, the first week usually is full of activities. This week we had multiple people come to check on the girls, doctors appointments, and visits, and the two year old doesn’t want to sleep! Poor girl, I’m sure she is scared and confused. Plus all the usual things we have for our other kiddo. He had visits and doctor appointments this week.

Although it was a busy week, our hearts are full and we are so blessed to get to love on as many sweet children the Lord needs us to. You can read my last blog post about foster care to see why we foster.

On top of new children coming, visits, doctors, and people coming to check on the girls, our foster son had to get caught up on immunizations this week. Let me just say today was long. The girls were wanting to go go go and play play play, but our sweet boy was tired, sick, and running a fever. We had a pretty quiet afternoon with a lot of cuddles, and yes, even a lot of screen time, oh well!

Foster care can take a lot of our time up, but we are so blessed with where we are at! Thanks for following along for a weekly update of our crazy yet love-filled life.

💜Amber Thorne

Why I Started Planning

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My most recent planner pic! I am in love with my Happy Planner

I’ve always been some sort of planner. Whether I used to free planner my school gave me for the year, or a cheap one my mom bought me, I always wanted to write things down. The earliest memory of this is from elementary school and it was required by our teachers to use the planners they provided. Little did I know that I would forever use a planner, and it is now a creative outlet for me to be organized and create.

My mom knew I would need a planner for college, but unfortunately, college doesn’t have free planners like high school and before does, so we started doing some research. I didn’t really know what I needed in a planner for school so I basically trusted her and her thoughts. We landed upon a Plum Paper Planner. It was a really cool planner. She customized it just for me. She put my name on it and was able to customize the layout to include all of my class names. I used it for my entire freshman year and was so glad to have a planner in my life for balancing being a freshman in college, being engaged to my now husband (yes we got married young), and having a job. College was different than any other schooling I’ve experienced and without a planner, I wouldn’t have survived.

Honestly, I didn’t make a lot of friends freshman year of college, and I got really depressed. I remember one weekend my mom drove over 4 hours to pick me up so I can go home for one day. Anyway, the summer after freshman year, I got married and that made school life even harder since I was balancing being a newlywed and a sophomore in college. I didn’t really my first semester of sophomore year out, and I could tell the difference in me knowing what was going on. I knew I needed something different for second semester, something that worked for me.

My first planner in 2016 that I found at Hobby Lobby

I still hadn’t found anything by the time Christmas break was over, so I started the second half of my sophomore year without a planner, and without a “life”. I was still depressed even though I had mostly everything I could want, an amazing husband, and attending college for my dream major. I still had no friends, and I was struggling to make any on campus because I was never there and I was struggling to make any at church because, well, let’s be honest, I suck at starting a conversation. I finally started talking to a person from church and she mentioned The Happy Planner to me. She showed me hers and she showed me them online and the next day I was at Hobby Lobby with her buying my first planner, the botanical gardens 2016-2017 Happy Planner.

I bought it in March of 2016 and I wanted to start right away, so I made my own type of extension pack on the computer and printed it to start using. I noticed a difference from mid-terms on that semester, and a difference in my overall demeanor. I had a different outlook on life.

Well, there were still a couple girls at church that I knew who used The Happy Planner, but I didn’t have the courage to talk to them. One of them was pregnant, so I just went for it, I told her when her baby was born I would love to start hanging out with her weekly and crafting. And she introduced me to washi tape and stickers and another friend at church who started coming to our weekly crafting sessions after her baby was born a few months later! I was finally getting friends and I was finally seeing a light at the end of my depression tunnel.

My best friends and I at a crafting session. I love these girls!
Planner meet up in Denver, Colorado. So blessed to have met some awesome planner babes! The Happy Planner has brought so many opportunities into my life.

Those two girls are still my best friends, but we don’t craft nearly as often as we should, and I’m not in college anymore. So why do I plan now?

For one, its a much needed necessity in my crazy life. Being a foster parent requires a lot of appointments and scheduling that I wouldn’t be able to do without my Happy Planner. My work schedule is crazy and changes every week. My pregnancy appointments need to be scheduled well in advance. My errands need to be tracked or they won’t happen. My dates need to be scheduled or they won’t be a priority. Church needs to be scheduled or I might not make it to a Sunday when I’m serving. I wouldn’t be memory keeping about the foster children we have had. I wouldn’t be faith journaling. My list can go on and on, but the main reason I plan is because it is NEEDED in my life. Without my planner, I wouldn’t know what was going on. Without my Happy Planner, I wouldn’t have much needed encouragement daily to keep me going on the right track.

I’m so thankful for the organization that The Happy Planner has brought to my life as well as the friendships that have been enriched because of it. I’m also navigating living with depression and anxiety, but it has been so much better with everything that The Happy Planner offers.

When will you start planning a happier life?

💜 Amber Thorne

Tips for Being Behind in Memory Keeping

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Memory keeping has quickly became one of my all time favorite ways to use The Happy Planner, although it may not seem that way with how far behind I am. Let’s just say that I’m still working on 2018 memories! I keep telling myself I will get caught up and I will not fall behind again, but then life happens and it doesn’t work out. I love seeing memory keeping spreads on Instagram, but when you’re as far behind as I am, you can’t have the same lofty expectations to have a perfect memory keeping spread each week. Here are some of my tips to get caught up if you are behind on memory keeping.

I use a big Happy Planner for memory keeping and these are my monthly pictures sorted out in baggies.
  1. Don’t have too high of expectations on yourself. The best thing you can do is to get caught up and then make it a habit so you don’t get behind again. In order to get caught up, sometimes you just don’t use stickers and you just put the picture down and write a caption, and that’s okay because your memories are still down on paper and it will still be fun to look back at. If you go into it with the expectation that you are only going to glue the pictures down and journal a quick caption, than you will be so proud of yourself when you finally are up to day.
  2. Print all your pictures at once. I had to print six months worth of pictures, and that took me a while to put them all into a collage and sort through, but getting all of them printed at once prevented me from going back and forth to the store to pick up each months photos separately.
  3. Once you have the printed pictures, sort the photos by month. I knew I wouldn’t be able to sit down at one time and glue 8 months of photos down so I chose to label baggies and put the months pictures in there. This helped me stay organized and not have pictures all over the place when the time came to glue them down.
  4. I chose to glue down one month at a time so when it was time to do that I took the pictures out of the baggie and sorted them into the week. I am well known for printing way to many pictures or multiple pictures of one event. For example, when my foster kiddo plays with the dog, I will take about one million pictures until I have that perfect shot! I’m sure you’re not like that at all right? 😂 Well, if you are like me and you print about four-five of the same picture, now would be the time to decide which one you actually want to glue down and put the rest in an extra pile, maybe you can use it for a monthly memories page, or in your monthly spread, or if it is a really special picture you can hang it on the wall in your craft room or put it on your desk! Sometimes I do end up throwing pictures away, but I would rather have too many options than not enough.
  5. Start by gluing all the pictures down then going back to journal. To me, this is a better way to start so that if I don’t end up journaling about the pictures until later that week, or even month if you know me, all the pictures will be down and you won’t have stacks of pictures laying around while you take the time to complete each week.
  6. After you are done with gluing the pictures down and journaling, you could flip through some sticker books and see if your want to add some embellishment stickers, but there is no pressure to do that, because at least your pictures are down and you have a little reminder of what that picture was about! You could also add a colorful box to journal in which will add some color and flair to the spread.
  7. Don’t over think it. Getting caught up shouldn’t be a chore. Do it because you want to and the memories are more important than the time it takes! It doesn’t have to be perfect by any means! Once you are caught up you can make it a habit and work towards finding a style that you love best!
  8. Have fun! Looking back at your memories should be fun and it will be even more fun to have them all down on paper and in your memory planner. Then you will be able to look back for years to come and see all the fun you had! Memory keeping isn’t always about the big events in life, they are the small daily details. Those small moments will be what you love looking back on over the years! I know I will when I have pictures of all my foster children to look back on, and all the sweet small moments we had with each of them!
I’m working on gluing my pictures down! I have to cover up my little loves face for confidentiality, but I’m glad I have these sweet memories to look back on!

I hope that this post has encouraged you to catch up, or even start a memory keeping planner. They are so fun to have so you can look back on all your years of memory making. It’s never too late to start and there is always a way to get caught up, no matter how far behind you are.

💜Amber Thorne

Why Foster Care?

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Ever since I was in high school, I thought that I wanted to care of children who needed a safe place by providing foster care. When my husband and I first started dating I shared this with him and he didn’t know how he felt about it. I wasn’t going to push him but I knew someday he would come around and have the same passions that I did, to care for the orphans. Almost four years later we got licensed and are now foster care parents. Here is our journey!

Shortly after marriage in 2015 we began talking about foster care again. We were waiting for the still small voice of the Lord to tell us it was time. We thought it was time a few times and it never panned out. In February 2018 my husband and I lost a child to miscarriage. For months after this I personally wasn’t in a place to even consider starting the process to foster. Throughout the summer I began healing and October came around, when my baby would of been due. I leaned closer to the Lord and November 2018 came around. I submitted the idea of foster care again to my husband and he was on board!

We both strongly believe in James 1:27. My favorite version is from The Passion Translation which states: “True spirituality that is pure in the eyes of our Father God is to make a difference in the lives of the orphans…”. We want nothing more than to care for those that need a safe home for a time being. We wanted to make a difference in their lives.

In November 2018 we started by taking a tour of our agency, and the next day we started taking our required training classes. We filled out our paper work and about 46 days later we were licensed foster care parents. We rushed the process because we knew we wanted to jump right in full heartedly.

Our first placement came on January 14th, 2019 and since then we’ve had a total of 15 children in and out of our home. The ages range from 10 months old to 17 years old. It has been such a journey and we are honored to be a safe place for the children to land on their own journey.

Foster care isn’t just about caring for the children, which was a quick shock to us. The first time we dropped off our foster children to visit their parent, we realized that these parents are often times in hard situations themselves and they love their kids. They love their kids just as much as you love your kid. They love their kid as much as I love the child I miscarried, and the child I am currently carrying.

Foster care has been a journey and we love each and everyone of the 15 children who have come in and out of our home. We are thrilled to see where this journey takes us and are honored to get to care for children as the Lord has called us to.

This picture is from May 2019 and since then we’ve had 6 more children come in and out of our home. I am using a Micro Happy Notes to remember something special from each child we cared for, no matter how short. For their privacy, we can’t post pictures of them, but I wanted to share this to the best of my ability.

💜Amber Thorne

Encouraging Notes to Yourself

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I started using my mini Happy Planner again at the beginning of June. I bought the Happy Planner Girl Super Mom mini which has what is called the dashboard layout. This layout has a page on the left that is all functional type planning sections such as: errands, to buy, calls to make, and bills to pay. The right side of the page has a weekly meal planner and the 7 days of the week. I knew from very early on I wouldn’t use the errands or calls to make section very often, or at all. I usually cover it with a few stickers and make it more of a decoration space. The month of June I decided to use a box of some sort, or leave some room and write a very small encouraging note to myself each week. The notes are usually a few words and represent what I needed for the week. Below are all of my June notes with a few words as to why I think it is important to encourage yourself.

This week especially, I have needed to remind myself that I am worthy. Telling yourself you are good enough and worthy enough is a huge feat in itself. This isn’t something I would ever whisper to myself or even believe. So I knew I needed to add it to my planner this week so every time I opened it I would have that small reminder to myself. Adding a positive note to each week this month has been so helpful to remind myself of something new each week.

This month, looking back at my completed week, I’ve noticed how valuable these notes have been to getting through my week. For example, The week where it says “you are strong” my husband and I took two foster kids in on a Monday. I was working at six in the morning, and lets just say the sweet girl was terrified the first night and woke every thirty minutes screaming! I needed the reminder that I was strong that week, and that although I was tired, and I mean extremely tired, it was all for a purpose, and it was for a short time.

It was really important for me to encourage myself because I’m doing the best I can in the moment. I need to show myself that I am proud of myself even when I fail. It’s so easy to find fault in what you do every day, but instead we need to encourage ourselves for the small feats we have! It’s so important to be proud of ourselves and to show ourselves that we can do it! I know that might sound cheesy, but the more you see your positive efforts each day, the more you’re going to be proud of yourself and want to keep trying.

Writing an encouraging note to yourself is such an important thing to get in the habit of doing. Sometimes, you need to be your biggest cheerleader, and that’s totally fine! If no one else is cheering you on, DO IT YOURSELF! You are worth it! You are good enough! You can handle whatever is thrown your way! Find a spot in your planner to write yourself an encouraging note this week, and make it a habit!

What kind of encouraging note will you write yourself today?

I’m really glad I started this habit in June, and I’m excited to see where it takes me in the rest of 2019. When are you going to start encouraging yourself?

💜Amber Thorne

Happy Planner Value Pack Sticker Storage

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Hello all,

I am excited to share with you an idea I had one how to store my Happy Planner Value Pack Sticker books. I used to have them all lined up on a peg board hanging in my craft room (see picture below). Unfortunately, this wasn’t working any more for a few reasons. The first reason is my old craft room will be transformed into a nursery for my daughter when she is born. The second reason is that there was no more room! It filled up quick, and let’s be honest, The Happy Planner isn’t going to stop any time soon! There are currently, as of June 21, 2019, 115 value pack sticker books! I may be addicted because I own every single one of them, and I, too, don’t plan on stopping any time soon.

My happy wall, which stored all of my Happy Planner sticker books. This wall held 114 so at the time this photo was taken, there was one sticker book that didn’t fit.

My new idea was to label the top of the sticker books with a sticker label. I’m not a fan of my hand writing and it’s hard to write on that small space, so I typed out all of the names on sticker paper and I will show you below my process for this project.

For this project you will need Avery sticker project paper, eight and a half by eleven. I found it on Amazon. Next, a paper cutter to cut the name strips after you print them. I own the Fiskars small sized paper cutter from Joann. You will also need as many Happy Planner Value Pack Stickers as you own, or just the ones you want to label. I’m sure you want the file I created with the list of all the sticker books, and that will be at the bottom of this blog post for you to download.

Here is what the printed sheets looked like before I cut them down to size.

For the labels I knew I wanted to be as detailed as possible since there are many books that have the same name. For that reason, I chose to include the number of stickers in the pack, the name on the front cover, and the year it was released. The reason I included the year is so I can see how old or new the book was. It was also helpful for sticker books with multiple editions, such as the back to school release or colorful boxes. The student sticker books would for example say (number, student, year) so it is easy to tell what student book I was grabbing!

This may go without saying, but step one is to match the sticker book with the label so you are sure you are putting the right one on each book!

The back of the sticker paper is easy to peel off and after you peel the back off, you stick it on top. There will be excess. I chose to have the whole top white because I liked how clean it looked, but if you wanted to you could use less and make the page have two columns so that you are using less sticker paper (for all 115 books plus a few duplicates, I used 5 pages of sticker paper).

After you stick down the label, you cut of any excess label, and boom! You’re done!

This is what the end product looks just for the mini sticker books that were released in 2017. I love how clean it looks and how easy it is to see what sticker book you are grabbing. This is a great method if you are storing you sticker books on a crafting cart like so many are.

Thanks so much for following along as I share my new process for labeling my sticker books.

💜Amber Thorne

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Disclaimer on the file above. It is a PDF from Google Docs. If it doesn’t work please feel free to email me at amberplansherday@gmail.com and I will email it to you directly so you can have access to this file!

Meet Amber

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Hello all,

I’m Amber Thorne and I am here to share my days with you. I’m a planner, believer, mom, creative thinker, foster mom, and a lover of all things coffee! I’m starting this blog to share with you some of my creative processes, as well as lifestyle experiences.

First, I am a Happy Planner. I got my first planner in 2016. It started in July and went for 18 months. When I bought it in March I knew I couldn’t wait any longer to start, so I made copies of pages and re-dated them to March 2016-July 2016. At first, I had no idea how to create in a planner. It was just meant for plans right? NO, not at all! I’m so glad that I learned about the value pack stickers and all of the accessories that The Happy Planner came out with over the years because they are helping me plan a happy life! I’ve met my friends through this community and have overcome a lot of my depression and anxiety by sitting down weekly to create a fun spread while also helping me stay on top of what my crazy busy life entails.

I’m also a rainbow mom and a foster mom. I had a miscarriage in February of 2018, which is a big part of my story and who I am. But it didn’t end there, I am currently pregnant with my rainbow baby. I’m due in September of 2019 to a sweet girl who will be named Rose Elaina. My husband and I are so grateful for a second chance to have a child! We also started the foster care licensing process in November of 2018. Foster care is something I always knew I wanted to do, but my husband took some time to come around. When he finally did, we jumped on the wagon full speed and got licensed in a very quick 37 days! We got our first placement in January of 2019 and since then we have had 14 kiddos come in and out of our home. It has not been an easy process at all, but every child has been worth it! We currently have one foster love and are open for up to two more, hence the mini-van. I am so blessed to be considered a mom in many different capacities!

Speaking of my husband, here he is! Michael is a man who I love and adore more than any other human! He has been such a rock in what has been a crazy few years! We are high school sweet hearts and got engaged right after graduation in 2014. We then got married in 2015 and are coming up on 4 years of marriage on June 27th! Time sure is flying! He leads me to the Lord in every situation and is so tender when my emotions often over power at times. I am so blessed to have him in my life and I know I wouldn’t be able to do it without him!

Although my life can be crazy, it is also creative. I am here to share with you how I live my life daily and how I plan when life is so often unplannable. Thanks for following along and getting to know me a little more!

💜Amber Thorne