I’m pleased to announce that I am making what I call “Christian lifestyle” videos now on YouTube! Here is the link to my new “Maggie Winterton” channel.

I really enjoy making videos. I got started with video editing in my high school broadcast journalism class. Honestly, broadcast journalism is what I planned to go into after high school, rather than magazine or newspaper journalism. I did not end up going into a journalism major, but I think what I do with blogging is kind of journalism after all! Anyways…

I did “newsy” assignments in that class, but I also had a WEEKLY MAKEUP SHOW. It was very fun. Then I started making similar fashion, beauty and DIY videos for YouTube in 2013 on my own. I decided to stop because 1. I wanted to focus on writing 2. It seemed shallow at the time.

Then when I took over Devotional Diva last year, I decided to make devotional videos. It just didn’t work out because I boxed myself into a structure for them, and it was sometimes hard to come up with topics and not ramble.

So I’m basically trying to blend fun and faith (You know, I just wrote that, but I think that might be my new “tagline” for the channel…) in this new channel. I want to do style, diy, home, family…”lifestyle-y” things; but also devotionals and Christ-centered videos.

I hope you’ll tune in! Below is my most recent video on my “maternity style.” I would have had a video up this week, too, if I wasn’t hit with a nasty cold!

How terrible I have been keeping up with my li’l mw.com! I’ve felt so neglectful, and I really needed to share all of my news on here!

The reason I haven’t been active here is really a multitude of reasons. Yes, we got that condo we wanted and we moved — In September. It’s December now and there’s still so much unpacking to do.

That’s because

1. The move went really crappily. We hired a moving company to only help us unload. We booked them for 2 hours, because all they had to do was just put all of our stuff in our house. It’s a three-story house and all the movers did was put everything in our garage and spend an hour and a half trying to get our fridge in the door. They were terribly unprofessional — most of the time they spent trying to get the fridge in the door was mostly just “talking” (with a lot of joking) about what they should do. We (honestly mostly just Brandon) have gradually been bringing stuff up all the stairs. I hate to complain about stuff online, but whatever, this is my blog and it was a terrible situation to be in when

2. I’m pregnant!!! I got so stressed out, and there wasn’t much I could do to help with the move. This pregnancy has been very rough physically. I had a heads-up from my cardiologist before getting pregnant that pregnancy would be hard for me with my heart condition. He was very right, but I didn’t expect my stomach (or my immune system) to have such a hard time. I was sick during the first trimester, but once I hit week 13 it got so much worse. I lost about 10 pounds, was almost hospitalized for dehydration. I’ve had a flu/cold thing for almost 3 months and at one point, I could barely breathe I had so much gunk in my lungs. It has slowed me down a TON.

But last week, I felt my baby kick for the first time. You know how they say babies make you forget about all the bad stuff in your life? It’s true. We’re going to find out the gender very soon too, just in in time for Christmas 🙂

Here is a link to my post on Devotional Diva announcing my pregnancy. It’s called, “Little Miracle on the Way!” 🙂

Merry Christmas!

I thought I would try to take it easy on MW these coming weeks because….we are moving! Yes, things are finally happening with the condo and we are about to close. Anywho, that’s why there wasn’t a post last week and because this is a pictures post.

The picture above is from my instagram on Brandon’s birthday. He is a big Tesla fan and he got to drive one! He was very excited.

We went to Disneyland the day before Brandon’s birthday. We went for mine earlier in the year, so it was only fair. He had a really good time. His favorite thing was meeting Tinkerbell.

We got the cats a stroller. They exist. It’s really nice because we can easily take them to a park to run around, and they LOVE to be outside.

Until later!

Hope you all had a great labor day weekend like my family did! Very relaxing 🙂

I want to recap and announce a couple things:

1. Devotional Diva’s new fall posting schedule is: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday

Guest posts have returned!! The first one is up today: You Can Have a Peaceful Pregnancy by Sarah Coleman

2. I had a guest post on The Laundry Moms blog: Encouragement Makes a Difference by Maggie Winterton

It’s about how my mom made such a difference in my life, leading to my writing career!

That’s all for today! MW.com will continue to have new posts on Wednesdays 🙂

Hello again!

I feel like I talked a lot last week, and I wanted to do a photo-based post today. So here are some photos I’ve taken in the past couple weeks.

The first photo collage is all about my kitties. Basically, my life is just all about my kitties. Brigit always wants to do what Brandon and I are doing. She’s a little copycat. And she doesn’t like when we are on the floor. I think she worries that we are hurt or something. Here, she is sniffing Brandon/giving him a little kiss while he foam rolls. And she does a little stretching with him, too. Zero, below left, is tucked in to some blankets at the end of our bed while Brigit checks out the situation. On the bottom right, I caught the two of them cuddlin’ on my filming sofa.

In this next collage, you can see my not-so-awesome mirrored elevator selfie. Just as I was taking the picture, the doors opened. You can still kind of see Brandon and I! The middle pictures and the top right photo were taken in Pacific beach last weekend. It was a beautiful day that ended in a beautiful sunset! And finally, Brandon wanted to get some new summer shoes to wear with his new booming short collection (this is the first year he has ever worn shorts and he loves them now!) so we went to Nordstrom Rack to look for some. Instead, I found some REALLY COOL Italian loafers. He thought they were not exactly “summer shoes.”

Here you can see the new summer shoes he got — They’re orange and blue Sperry Top Sider’s. But this is my dream kitchen and Ikea has it on display right now. I had to take a picture (doesn’t Brandon look so at home?!) because when I have the chance to build it, I want to remember what exactly what it looks like!

I probably won’t get my dream kitchen for a long time, but our offer on the condo I mentioned last week was accepted!

Hope you enjoyed this look into my life!