I love my children so much. I am forever grateful for the gift of being their mama, but this season, this current space we find ourselves in, this is hard. I remember back to my maternity leaves, the anxiety and stress I felt for the constant countdown as each week melted away. The time flew…
Category: Personal Growth
To the Class of 2020
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. This wasn’t supposed to be your Senior year. My heart breaks for every single one of you. As you worked through your school career, you had a vision of what it was “supposed” to look like. You had a goal in sight, things to look forward to and…
You can do hard things.
I am going to make an assumption here and guess that you, yes you, the person reading this post right now, YOU have experienced hard things in your life. Hard things can look different for each of us. Hard things could be the loss of a loved one. It could be the loss of a…
Pause.
It’s interesting, I started this blog post back in November of 2019 and then came back to it in January of this year. I named the post “Pause” and wrote a little blurb (below) about what I was thinking and feeling one day. The best part is, I couldn’t even “Pause” long enough to actually…
Social Media is Disconnecting More Than Reconnecting
Something has really been on my heart lately. Maybe it stemmed from the social media break I took for 30 days. When I first went back to social media, I was not on as much as I had been, but I had noticed something. We as a society are depending WAY too much on social…
Have I Let My Family Down?
My husband knew from day one of dating me that my education was something I took pride in. The fact that I had gone to school for my associates, being a young, then single mama was empowering to me. It was the evidence I needed to push myself to move forward through hard times. Soon…
Financial Freedom Means Something Different to Me
One of my biggest insecurities in this world is around money. Honestly it is. The reason? I messed up pretty big when it came to finances many years ago. It’s not something I am proud of, or even something I like to talk about, however, I believe it happened for a reason. I am now…
Good Enough is the New Perfect
I will open this post by admitting that I am a recovering perfectionist. I am, it’s true, and it was really bad. I wanted my life and everything in it to be perfect. Absolutely perfect. No waves. No imperfections. Let me tell you about the pressure, stress and anxiety that came with having this narrative…
Raise Each Other UP
I am starting to feel like we live in a world where we are more apt to tear one another down in order to make ourselves feel better, or to get further up whatever ladder we are attempting to climb, than we are to raise each other up.This is not a comforting realization, it is…
My Reflection
Have you ever sat down and just had some reflection on the year. This has been something I have wanted to do, but I could not find the time or head space to do so. Then the most interesting thing happened. We lost power at our house AND my children are sleeping. The house is…