Hi! I’m Nicole Kristin Twedt. I’m happy you found me here. I am a writer, encourager, wife and coffee-drinking mama of three in the Pacific Northwest just north of Seattle. I am a follower of Jesus. He is my joy and delight, my hope.
My funny last name is Norwegian. The correct pronunciation is “tweet,” which tickles me to death. I have a thing for birds, you see.
My background is in English and Elementary Education, though I’m a terrible speller and punctuation isn’t my strong point. I taught preschool and kindergarten at a private school in what seems like another life. My last day was a week before our first daughter was born.
This is not a mommy blog, except when it is.
I’m not an expert on anything.
I am a writer finding my place in this crazy world through the written word. It’s how this introvert untangles her way through life, understands people, God and everything in between.
I have a genetic hearing loss. I was born with a high-frequency hearing loss in my right ear and lost almost all of my hearing in the left ear during the summer before high school. Some of the hearing returned six months later resulting in an (almost) equal yet profound hearing loss in both ears.
Being hard-of-hearing is not what this blog is about either, but it’s a big part of what makes me, well me.
I write a bit about grief. And what happens when life doesn’t go as planned. Grief is not a subject I set out to write about. I’m a glass half-full kind of gal, but sometimes you must write about the past and where you’ve come from to determine where you’re going.
I hope you are encouraged by this place. Maybe, just maybe, something will nudge your heart and you will know this is a safe space for you to belong. I long to hear you say, “Me too! I’m not the only one!” Well, maybe not about hearing aids, but everything else, about living in hope and being brave when life is hard.