Living With Less Podcast

Tell us about you! (Family, home, church, job, ministry, etc.)Grew up in the PNW, went to college in Oregon … met a boy from AlaskaHave 2 kiddos, ages 14 & 15 (both learning to drive … prayers appreciate)Worship at our church here in AlaskaAmanda and I met 14 years ago through MOPS; co-coordinated groupLove writing and doing ministry w/ AmandaWe joke we’re the Mom Opposites (8/2 … public school / homeschool … working outside the home … now total opposite sides of the country)But between the 2 of us, we represent moms all over, with different backgrounds & various seasons/stages of mothering. (We weren’t meant to be cookie-cutter versions of each other. We serve a creative God!)When did you feel the call to become an author! What started the whole idea of writing the Shiny Things?Loved working together through MOPS, dreamed of writing a book together somedayBrought a book proposal to She Speaks in 2013. Met w/ several publishers, one of which was Harvest House. Told us quite frankly that this was more