About Westwoods

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                      Left to right: Laife and Madi, Bruce and Shilah, Shaunti and Johnny, Toria

                                                         Johnny and Shaunti  August 10, 2024

                                                                Victoria and Shaunti

                                                          Bruce and I in Alaska in August

                                              Laife and Madi married September 21, 2024

Hello, welcome to my blog. I'm glad you are here. I write honestly as possible while trying to be respectful of my people's spaces. I have been writing here for many years.  While it seems Instagram has found a way to take half of my writing creativity and skill, turning it into smaller, daily bites, I still find writing to be my greatest joy in life. I try to update the blog once a month but hope to improve on that in our future.

It has been five years since I have updated this page. I am sorry for the neglect. We sold our lake house and moved to the other end of it, just inland, from the same lake. We built a small house and now most of the time, experience being empty nesters.

In 2024, our youngest and eldest child both got married, while out middle child went to Germany for four months. Bruce and I have started to travel more each year, this past year, Italy, Alaska/Yukon, Georgia, Wyoming, and Florida. 

Very recently, Bruce started doing a remote nursing job, in which he works at home. Thus, me getting serious about my writing projects.

Every day and year is different and always changing in the Hartman home. God keeps reaching for us and we keep reaching for Him. He is so good to us and always with us through every change. We feel it.

I write about life. It's good moments and it's more challenging ones. Always I trace and see the Hand of God working on our behalf. So much grace and abundant living is there when I remember to look for it.