Showing posts with label blessings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blessings. Show all posts

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Let me reintroduce myself...

I saw this amazingly inspiring post over on Lulu & Sweet Pea's blog and knew that this was a direction I needed to go with my post tonight. I was just rambling last night about all of these things that I used to be and gave virtually no regard to who I am now. So tonight I am going to share things about myself that you may or may not want to know about me. Here goes nothing...


  • I am a mother to a 14 year old daughter and 11 year old son. 
  • I am a stepmother to a 14 year old daughter and 11 year old son. (Yes I wrote step in front of mother but not in front of my relationship with them, because they are my children and the word step doesn't define my relationship with them.)
  • My Mister is in the military so I am Household Six 
  • I'm a stay at home mom. I don't love it, but I am sure I will miss it when I go back to work. 
  • I'm a graduate student and will be starting my 30 hour/week internship next week. Good luck me! 
  • I love nail polish and to paint my nails. I hate chipped polish and I just can't get down with it.
  • I love makeup! It makes me feel beautiful.
  • I have deep set eyes and cannot pull of winged eyeliner. Therefore, I live vicariously through my daughter and her winged liner. 
  • I have naturally wavy hair and I used to hate it. Now I hate that I'm losing my hair. I definitely took it for granted. 
  • I love self help books and legal/thriller fiction books. 
  • I never wanted to move outside of my home state and then I got the opportunity to do so. We moved back and I'm itching to move somewhere else. 
  • I rarely feel content. I need to fix that. 
  • Cuss words are my favorite thing to say when I'm around other adults. 
  • I love hoop earrings. The bigger the hoop the better 
  • I am obsessed with minivans. I love my minivan (and the fact that she's paid off) and will drive her until she quits on me, but I am always checking out other minivans anticipating which one I will get next. Haha
  • I can be impatient and bossy. I assume it has to do with my birth order (first born) and the fact that I'm a Leo. 
  • I am my own worst critic 
  • My life has revolved around my mister and the herd for so long it is scary to start focusing on me. 
  • Target is my jam! I would give them all our money if we didn't have bills to pay
  • Amazon prime is the second best thing to Target. 
  • I'm funny, witty and I always laugh at my jokes
  • To-do lists are my favorite thing to write. My least favorite thing to write are papers, but I do it. 
  • Cooking is something I have gotten better with over the years, but I don't always enjoy it. 
  • Grocery shopping is my foe 
  • I wish I was bilingual, but I'm not so that sucks 
  • Colored ink and new planners/calendars make my heart happy! 
  • I spend too much money on eyeshadow palettes
  • Shopping cures any bad day
  • Handbags are my weakness
  • Organizing and rearranging things makes me feel accomplished
  • Clutter and I are not friends 
  • I don't enjoy change, but I don't like things always being the same 
  • I'm difficult and complicated at times so it seems like I'm hard to please. Reality is I'm not content and I don't always know what I want.
  • Running a household is a lot of work, who knew adulting wasn't that much fun?! 
  • I overthink things and I often overshare 
  • I raise my voice at my kids
  • I'm not perfect but I'm me and that's where I'm going to end this tonight. 
Until next time, 

xoxo


Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Counting my Blessings

I am sitting here on the eve of Christmas Eve and I am thinking about all the time I waste on negative thoughts and feelings. This past week someone very important in my son's life lost their father to suicide. My heart absolutely breaks for them. Death is hard to begin with, but to lose someone unexpectedly and by their own hand is devastating. Life is so precious and should not be taken for granted, yet there are so many moments that are. I don't try to be ungrateful for my life and my blessings, but I know that at times I am. Tonight I want to refocus on my energy, my thoughts, and my feelings towards the positive. Tonight I am counting my blessings.

I am blessed...

* to have a loving husband
* with four healthy and happy (well when I'm not "ruining" their preteen/teenage lives) kids
* with good health
* to have such loving and supporting parents
* to have a house that we have made a home
* to have meaningful friendships
* with kindness and love in my heart
* to have the best siblings and nieces and nephews on the planet!
* with a husband who works super hard so that I can be home with the kids
* to have a husband who supports me 100%
* with children that love me unconditionally
* to have the cutest and cuddliest cats

Tonight, and every night, I am blessed to be alive.

Until next time,

xoxo