Lady Lovestead

Good morning sweet friends, It’s time you meet some of the most important living beings in my life. My dogs. My dogs are so important to me. I can honestly say, I am still alive today because of my dogs. More on this later. For now, I’d like to introduce you to my three little loves. 1. Orlando Orlando is my first dog, my first little love. I adopted him September 1, 2012. The veterinarian estimated him to be around one year old. I don’t know his full back story, but it can’t have been good. When I saw him at the shelter, he was trembling in his kennel. When I picked him up, he snuggled under my neck, sighed, and stopped trembling. Shelter staff said that it was the first time he’d stopped trembling since being there. I knew then that he had chosen me and he became a member of my family. Orlando is an anxious, high-strung dog. Over the years he has grown more confident and comfortable, but he is still scared of new people. He has come around to loving other dogs though...

Me before a charity event in October 2019 Good morning sweet friends! Welcome to the newly renovated Lovestead. The Lovestead is the name of my physical town home here in Iowa, and it is also what I call my virtual home here at this website. So, without further ado, welcome to my virtual home! Here is a space for us to interact and share ideas. Here is a space for us to nurture each others’ growth and faith. Here is a space for us to support one another as we try to live intentional, loving, and truthful lives. I’m so glad you’re here. ↠↞ Let me introduce myself a bit. If we’re going to spend time together, you should at least know the basics. I define myself as a hyper-feminine cisgender woman. I’ll talk more about how I define femininity in later posts. I am a new Christian having fully come into the faith in September of 2018. I’m still figuring out who I really am, and God has pruned a lot of layers over the past several years. This is a space for me to c...