Inspired by one of my favorite blogs I thought it would be a great idea to look back each week at those things that brought me the most joy. This is far too fitting for my blog to ignore the idea so I look forward to posting these each week! 1. I fixed my nursing …
We all know how it works. You can only reap what you choose to sow. We can only achieve the dreams that we put forth the effort to work towards. And so many other wordings of the same idea.
Sometimes I need this truth to knock me upside the head.
Back in 2010 I put in major effort to lose the baby weight I had put on after back to back pregnancies with my two oldest boys. I was hanging on to about seventy extra pounds and hated the way all my clothes fit. I knew we weren’t planning on another baby for a while so I put my mind to it and worked hard. I watched my portions, I worked out four to five days per week, I said no to extra treats, and basically worked harder than I had in quite a long time.
Inspired by one of my favorite blogs I thought it would be a great idea to look back each week at those things that brought me the most joy. This is far too fitting for my blog to ignore the idea so I look forward to posting these each week! 1. Movie day with the …
I’m linking this up over at Kate Motaung’s for Five Minute Friday. Every week a one-word writing prompt is given and writers have five minutes to share. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write. Surprise! I love surprising my …
Inspired by one of my favorite blogs I thought it would be a great idea to look back each week at those things that brought me the most joy. This is far too fitting for my blog to ignore the idea so I look forward to posting these each week! 1. Making a LEGO family …
Do your kids act like absolute angels for other people but at home you struggle to understand why you don’t have more behavior reports coming though the door? I feel you. During the early months of school one of our children went through a particularly rough patch. We were shocked at the behavior change we …
Once upon a time there was a guy that loved Transformers. This guy also loved a gal that he had asked to be his wife. This gal was on a girls’ weekend with her friends doing wedding planning stuff when she wanted to buy him a present.
She wandered into a LEGO store because she saw a set that looked like a brick-built Transformer. So she bought it.
This ended the couples dark ages.
Inspired by one of my favorite blogs I thought it would be a great idea to look back each week at those things that brought me the most joy. This is far too fitting for my blog to ignore the idea so I look forward to posting these each week! 1. This picture made me …
There are seasons of life when finding any spark of joy feels impossible. Whether it be financial hardship, death, infertility, depression, marriage troubles, or sickness, finding joy when life is piling on difficult circumstances can seem futile.
At the end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 I experienced two back to back miscarriages.
We had been trying for our third child for five months when I saw the two pink lines on Christmas morning. I was elated! Two days later I started bleeding. I would have been about 4 weeks along.
At the end of January I got another positive test! This time all seemed well. I went to my 8-week appointment and was hit with the news. The baby had no heartbeat. I went home and had to wait to miscarry.
Inspired by one of my favorite blogs I thought it would be a great idea to look back each week at those things that brought me the most joy. This is far too fitting for my blog to ignore the idea so I look forward to posting these each week!
1. Watching this little lady sleep
We’ve been having trouble with her actually going to bed when she’s supposed to, staying in bed, etc., so when I actually find her asleep? Praise the Lord! Of course right after this I had to wake her up so we could go pick her big brothers up from school but I couldn’t pass up a quick snapshot of such a peaceful moment.