Welcome to These Joy Filled Days!

Hi!   I’m super excited that you are here!

My name is Mandy, and it’s my calling in this world to help other women like me seek and find joy and fulfillment throughout day-to-day life.  

I am your everyday average woman, wife to my high-school sweetheart (after losing each other for 12 years and then finding our way back), mama to four amazing kiddos ages 20, 12, 9 and 5 and a devoted Christian seeking growth in God’s purpose for me.  Anyone who knows me will tell you I am addicted to coffee and spicy cheese curds, I like to give advice to anyone who will (and won’t) listen, and I am obsessed with everything related to personal growth.

I am an experienced entrepreneur and business owner in the Portland, Oregon area, including used books sales, children’s consignment store, real estate and coaching businesses in addition to this blog.

Earlier this year I was diagnosed with an eye disease that is caused by stress.    As an owner of a Real Estate team (pdxrockstars.com), coach to new real estate agents of our brokerage and self-diagnosed Perfectionist, I had to make the tough decision to step down from my coaching and real estate roles and find ways to reduce the stress in my life.  

Hence, this blog was born.  It is my way of focusing each and every day on the best parts of life, those moments for which I am eternally grateful, and perhaps even help others to do the same.  Life is too short and goes by way too fast to sit and watch from the sidelines and to take ourselves too seriously.

Come explore God’s amazing world alongside me!

Mandy