This Thanksgiving looks different for many this year, but not for us. Each year we typically spend at least one holiday away from extended family so that my husband can treat patients.
My husband treats some of the sickest patients every year. While it’s tough to work such long hours on a holiday, my husband tells me it’s infinitely harder to be sick in the hospital or to lose a loved one on the holiday. It’s that kind of perspective that makes him the greatest doctor ❤️
As we celebrate Thanksgiving in a different way, I want to thank all of the doctors for the work they do every year. 2020 may feel different for most of the world, but to us, we know they lead the charge for patient care every year. Quite often that means sacrificing time with their own families to care for yours. Without complaint, with the utmost integrity and compassion, offering the care that no one else can. As we think of essential workers today, don’t forget to think of doctors like my Dr. J ❤️
From our family to yours, have a happy and safe Thanksgiving !
This week is special not only because of Raegan’s birthday, but also because Honor turned 8 months old. 💐 Honor is standing independently and has tried to take some steps. She enjoyed a very brief trip to the zoo and the desert for the first time, can give me kisses, and said “bye bye!” She’ll be walking so soon!
Happy 8th birthday to Raegan Grace, our Rae of Sunshine ❤️ She enriches our lives and brings so much life wherever she goes. Every year she amazes me more and more, and I thank God He entrusted her to us. Her life speaks to His redemptive nature, His sovereignty, His grace. What an absolute joy to be a part of her story. Our little Queen, we love you tremendously.
Baking her cake with Mommy and Daddy in time for her virtual birthday party 🥳 #EightTomorrow
Kicking off her birthday weekend with toys, Korean hot dogs, and vegan ice cream ❤️ This year she became a big sister and handled a pandemic, all with with Grace and still remaining the most lovable beautiful little soul. My firstborn, our dream come true.
Completed my first week of work 🖤 I took a little more than a year off and was a stay at home mom. It was such a privilege to be able to do that — now I feel refreshed and excited to return to practice, even if it looks a little different by working from home (topped off this week with a brief visit to the office). 🖤
I share this to encourage young professional women to really press into what’s on their hearts, and lean into the season you’re in. If you need to take time off and be with your kids, be prayerful and do so. If you need to work, be prayerful and do so. In either case, recognize the immense inherent privilege in that choice, and be thankful for it. In either case, refuse to let your worth be defined by your season. Staying at home or going to work both hold equal weight, and speak nothing to the value you hold as a woman. #BlackWomenLawyers #TheOC
Beautiful day with my beautiful babes. #iLoveCali #MyGraceGirls #PalmsSprings
Happy Sunday! 💙As a day of rest, today is fitting for another Living Kingdom video. Today’s video encourages us to be people of rest and explains why we should all trust God and rest on the Sabbath.
In rest, we find freedom from endless hustle, hope for the ultimate Sabbath rest to come, and faith that God can do more when we work less.
Check it out on my channel, link in bio 💙
Happy Veterans Day to my Daddy, Grandaddy, stepmom, and my sister ❤️ Words could never express enough gratitude for your sacrifice and outright courage. #HappyVeteransDay #proudArmybrat
Amazed at what our love made — our family, my greatest gift after Jesus. Amazed that we stand taller and more fruitful. To be transparent, it’s been a challenging couple of years for us. We were in a “desert season” — a very dry season. But, “where there were years of drought, now overflow,” as one of my favorite songs say. #BringingForthFruit #BeautyFromTheDesert #ThisIs30
Palm Springs, you’re amazing. So much beauty in the desert (that’s a word).
A couple weeks ago I celebrated the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. 50 years later black women were included in that right.
Now, we have America's first female, first Black, and first South Asian vice president-elect. As a mother and Black woman lawyer, I am beside myself today. Regardless of your political affiliation, HERstory is made. Largely thanks to Black women’s votes.
Madam Vice President-Elect @kamalaharris. I met you at a sorority function in 2011. Now, you just made history and broke another glass ceiling for me and my daughters.
(I may have to let out a good Skee-wee and hair flip on today, it’s been shut up in my bones💗💚)
Believer. Wife. Girl mama. Attorney. Encourager. 30 years in and I’m just getting started.
A surprise 30th birthday trip away in the desert ❤️ Planned by my husband, of course. Who else could pull something off like this? ❤️
Thanks for the birthday love, y’all! It feels good to be 30. #thisis30 #keepingitsimple
It’s my birthday ❤️ The biggest and best lesson I’ve learned: a simple life does not lack impact. I just want to lead a simple life with simple joys: continue to worship Jesus with my life, and to love my husband and children with my best. That’s the mark I want to leave on this world, because that’s what matters most. #thisis30
Cinderella and her pumpkin carriage 💙 They brought such sparkle and shine with their #Cinderella theme!
Seeing my little pumpkin and my princess always fills my heart with some much joy. I love being a girl mom to these two. Forever my #GraceGirls
Cinderella and her pumpkin carriage 💙 #bippidyboppidyboo #Cinderella #HappyHalloween
Raegan’s name means “little Queen” or “little ruler.” Such a fitting name for her — she already carries herself as royalty.
We found a way to capture her 👑 royal highness and to honor her love for African culture with her new portrait #gifted to us from@masterpiecemeco! Raegan loved her royal portrait, bow and all! @masterpiecemeco has tons of designs to choose from — all you have to do is submit a photo and choose your costume!
A portrait would make an awesome gift, since Christmas is just around the corner (just sayin). I’m eyeing 👀 the new astronaut and blue captain costumes for my family! Use MELONIE15 for 15% off your order!
#masterpieceme #Christmasgift #AD
Last week, I took my babies with me to drop off our ballots! I want them to know why it’s important to vote and to be with me as I engage in one form of activism. This is particularly important for them as Black women.
This year marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. It’s worth celebrating.
But, it’s also worth noting that the women’s suffrage movement wasn’t universal. The suffrage movement was selective, to the exclusion of Black women. It would be nearly another 50 years before black women could exercise their voting rights.
You can imagine, then, why voting is so critical from a historical perspective, and you can see that voting is also an important tool for shaping our American society. I want my girls to get a firsthand glimpse of the weightiness in exercising their right.
I vote as a tool for the political enfranchisement for me and my daughters. I vote for a fuller, better life for them this side of Heaven. My hope isn’t in man, but I dare not limit what God can do for this nation in my today and my girl’s future.
I hope you’re compelled to exercise your right to vote. Visit vote.org for more guidance! #BlackWomenVote #RockTheVote #Vote
This Thanksgiving looks different for many this year, but not for us. Each year we typically spend at least one holiday away from extended family so that my husband can treat patients.
My husband treats some of the sickest patients every year. While it’s tough to work such long hours on a holiday, my husband tells me it’s infinitely harder to be sick in the hospital or to lose a loved one on the holiday. It’s that kind of perspective that makes him the greatest doctor ❤️
As we celebrate Thanksgiving in a different way, I want to thank all of the doctors for the work they do every year. 2020 may feel different for most of the world, but to us, we know they lead the charge for patient care every year. Quite often that means sacrificing time with their own families to care for yours. Without complaint, with the utmost integrity and compassion, offering the care that no one else can. As we think of essential workers today, don’t forget to think of doctors like my Dr. J ❤️
From our family to yours, have a happy and safe Thanksgiving !
This week is special not only because of Raegan’s birthday, but also because Honor turned 8 months old. 💐 Honor is standing independently and has tried to take some steps. She enjoyed a very brief trip to the zoo and the desert for the first time, can give me kisses, and said “bye bye!” She’ll be walking so soon!
Happy 8th birthday to Raegan Grace, our Rae of Sunshine ❤️ She enriches our lives and brings so much life wherever she goes. Every year she amazes me more and more, and I thank God He entrusted her to us. Her life speaks to His redemptive nature, His sovereignty, His grace. What an absolute joy to be a part of her story. Our little Queen, we love you tremendously.
Baking her cake with Mommy and Daddy in time for her virtual birthday party 🥳 #EightTomorrow