I’m Ashley.

If I you met me in real life it would take you less than a minute to realize there’s no polite impersonal introduction. Once I know who you are, you’re going to get to know the real me really fast.

So I’ll just jump right in.

I’ve been a wife for over a decade. I’m a mother of three girls. So you’ll find a lot of talk about those things around here.

I stay at home and home-school my girls; another common topic.

I love to read, enjoy simple cooking, like to sew and craft if it’s not too complicated and I don’t have to make it perfect. I’m obsessed with taking pictures, but I strictly limit myself to casual photography. I like an adventure, but really I’m a homebody. I have a garden, and have been falling more in love with things outdoors in recent years. I love to exercise but can’t find the time. I want to eat healthy but I have to fight my way past a lifetime of picky eating. I love Jane Austen, Anne of Green Gables and Little House on the Prairie. I find myself drawn to the simplicity of past eras.

I’m a writer. Not in a professional, accomplished sort of way. I write in this space. And in journals. Lots and lots of them. Because I need to write all the time. It’s not optional. It’s just a part of me.

So that’s the “about me” based on what I do.

Here’s the “about me” based on who I am:

I am a follower of Jesus. There is no other way for me. He is everything and who I am really comes down to whose I am. I am His. By grace, through faith.

This is a place for me to reflect on His gifts. To savor the good and work through the bad until I find the good. If things seem all rosy and perfect please don’t be deceived. My life is just as messy as yours. I’ve just learned that the best way to live with the mess is to look for the beauty in it.

I chose “One Ordinary Day” because of a quote I loved, by a woman who’s writing has impacted me greatly. When I first read them they were just inspiring words. Now they’re words I’ve lived.

There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day – seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.

-Elisabeth Elliot

I hope you’re day is blessed by a glimpse at the gifts of my ordinary days.

You can email me at ashley@oneordinaryday.com.