Resolutions Shmezolutions?

Holla if you don’t love new years resolutions 🖐️🖐️✋✌️🖕👈👌!

Ok so I’ve NEVER liked them because I hate seeing people excited about things that have a high probability of NOT happening… I could expound but you know what I mean.

Mk so that being said; now that I’m 35 I’ve officially done almost everything I said I would NEVER do! (I’ll never live in MN, I’ll never want more than 3 kids, I’ll never live without my siblings, I’ll never blah blah blah… FYI never say never… EVER.

So since I’ve NEVER had a new years resolution, I’m going to go ahead and have one.

I’m a yes gal… I love to please people and have grown leaps and bounds learning healthy boundaries but this year I feel a strong resolution coming on. A word of protection and comfort maybe?

This year with every situation, job and invitation placed before me I want to ask… “Will this benefit my relationship with my family and with God”? And if it won’t,  I need to have a confident NO with no guilt or condemnation or afterthoughts.

Sounds simple enough but I already know myself and that I’ll have to ask this a lot! Sports, Bible studies, dinner dates, trips, retreats, jobs, family get togethers… These all sound like wonderful things right!?!? I clearly remember a pastor saying “if home base isn’t secure, even the good things can become distractions”.

Anyways, I may or may not let you know how this goes but thought I’d verbalize it in case that helps me secure the resolution and keep accountable! Maybe next year at this time I’ll remember to let you know if I passed or failed and it’ll give us all a good giggle.

And on a completely different note… Can we look at these pictures I took and agree that Jeremy’s resolution could be to NOT allow our 1 year old to chew on steak knives this year!?!✋

 

Real Life

Tired eyes…chin skin, and hair loss.. oh my!

I’m not the young one anymore… There I said it… I mean I AM young and feel young mostly but I have to do certain things to feel good and look decent now… And my kids ask about my wrinkles, and tell me their friends mom’s are younger than me: and I share clothes with my daughter…Did you hear that!!! Once you share clothes with your kids; you’re old!

I love getting older in most ways and would NEVER want to go back in time but want to be honest about some things.

After a horrible hair dying experience over a year ago, my hair hasn’t grown…at all!!! I am a very healthy gal and have done all the supplements, nutrition, and oils and still no hair! So for Christmas I went ahead and ordered me some hair extensions (aka a young gals wig) AND joined the MONAT hair craze that I’ve avoided like the plague (sorry MONAT pals). I’ll keep you posted these next couple of months on my honest MONAT opinions in case you care! Also I started taking collagen thanks to my sister in laws recommendation so I’ll keep you posted on if this helps too! Collagen actually helps with nails, joints, digestion and on and on!

(Here’s what I take)

Also after turning 30, me and Jeremy were just tired… We have more on our plates than ever but also just feel like our bodies are wanting to be taken care of after over 30 years of “winging it”.

Big sis Tica swore by this green drink and so we listened and have taken it for a solid year now.

Anyways! After a year of taking this I can say Jeremy doesn’t wake up exhausted, his gut problems are gone, and we both feel ” normal” and healthy while taking it. We feel Soo old and lethargic when we forget it on trips etc. I know there are a bazillion drink supplements out there but this just works for us and it’s made of real raw food.

Ok this is such a random post but it’s my life and I know some of you are right there with me.

Ps* we also take probiotics, fish oil and vitamin c daily… SOoooOoo OLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The new ” us”

It’s been almost 2 whole years since I’ve been on here! I actually feel like I am an absolutely different person today than I was the last time I wrote here!

Since I last wrote Jeremy and I have grown in soo many hard and deep ways (will write later about this). Our marriage and way of life are new, rich, and the best they’ve ever been; and all because of a very hard life trial we faced together nearly 2 years ago.

We added Bridger Clyde to our crew in July, 2017 and he has added one more beautiful piece to our family puzzle that we knew and didn’t know we needed!?! He is the “bridge” between the old “us” and the new “us”.

We have taken on several new responsibilities with Jeremys business. We have purchased some rental properties and Jer bought me a coffee shop (more later as well).

We feel like MN is finally our home..at least until our kids are grown! Neither of us like winter and both of us dream of summering in the black hills and wintering somewhere warm! We refuse to let those dreams die!

Our kids are becoming independent and soo mature! We feel like we have just entered a new level of life and have left an old season behind in regards to having littles and being in the survival mode of being new parents. We are now the old people who have old kids and we like it! Each stage has been our favorite and we hope we think this way until the kids are grown!

So that’s the quickest recap I can muster for now! I’ll be back with something else sometime soon but for now; we are enjoying our last few days of winter break with these cute rascals…

 

What in the World!!!

Mk… Why am I back on my private blog rather than on my beloved sister blog?!?

I need a “journal space”… A place to share life, to look back on later… And though I really want to do it with my sisters in tow…it’s just not time for us all to share together via blog.

Sooo I’mmmmmm Baaaaaaack!

Not sure what it’s going to look like but it’s mostly just for my own release, relief, refreshing and what not!

So that’s that…

See ya soon!