Tweet The next time you go to your local library, see if they have an account for Hoopla. It is my new favorite app. I can borrow music and audio books through my local library and listen to them while I am driving. Although, on the same note, I feel old for admitting my new favorite app is one that gives me the ability to listen to audio books. Regardless, I love it. With an almost one-year old, I just do not have time to sit down with a book. But I do have time to listen to someone else read me one. My current audio book is “The Best…
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Dead Begin to Rise
Tweet When you walk into the room Sickness starts to vanish Every hopeless situation ceases to exist And when you walk into the room, The dead begin to rise ‘Cause there is resurrection life In all You do Sunday morning as we sang the lyrics to the song above, they hit me in a way they never have before. The last three lines rang in my head for the rest of the day. I could not shake the thought of how different things would be if we actually lived like we believed the words of this song. As a believer, we don’t often question the cross and the…
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Savoring Slow
Tweet For much of my life, I have been a morning person. Prior to getting married, I was up and at the gym between 4:30 and 5 every morning. I love the peace and calm of the morning. I maintained my early mornings after getting married for a while, but slowly the early morning gym workouts fell by the wayside. Add a baby into the mix and my mornings became “how late can I sleep and still get to work on time.” They were chaotic, rushed, and anything but peaceful and quiet. I was barely able to get to work on time and struggling. Majorly struggling. Something had…
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Waiting.. And More Waiting.. Part 1
Tweet He is almost one right?!? I have lost track of how many times I have been asked that question over the past several weeks. People look at the calendar or see me and little H and all of a sudden, it hits them, it’s almost August. Isn’t his birthday in August? Yes. His birthday is in August. And yes he is almost one. But the more I get asked about it, the more sentimental I become which is odd because I am not a sentimental person. I have actually been excited each time he has grown into a new size of clothing. I have loved seeing him grow and…
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Working Mom Essential: A Deep Freezer (plus recipes)
Tweet Our 4th of July was rainy. It was the type of day you just have zero desire to go outside and mainly would like to crawl up on the couch with a good book or a decent movie. For me, it was the perfect day to jump back into the world of my deep freezer. Right before H was born, I did a marathon of freezer meal prep and had meals for a good while after he arrived. This was an excellent decision and saved us from eating frozen pizza every night of the week (not that my sweet hubby would have complained!). Then I went back to work…
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The Dark Side of Social Media
Tweet For all I love about social media, there is a side a loathe. The side which often rears its ugly head after holidays or vacation days or even some ordinary weekends. Honestly, it’s not actually an issue with social media, but more the way it brings out the dark side in me that I hate. This morning as I was scrolling through my Instagram, I realized how quickly my internal emotions shifted to anger, jealously, and disappointment. It happened in a moment and when I realized it, I quickly set my phone down like it was on fire. This has to stop. I needed to re-direct before I spent…
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Excuse the Mess and Come on Over
Tweet The other day I was at the grocery store. I had gotten there later than I planned so it was pushing 5:00 when my husband called. Having left him home with our child, I was a bit concerned. He assured me everything was fine and then proceeded to let me know our neighbors had decided they could come for dinner. We quickly created a menu and I picked up the few things I needed in order to hurry home and prepare a meal. A little over an hour later, our neighbors showed up and entertained the little man while we finished up dinner. They were so appreciative of the…
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Kudos to You,Babe
Tweet Cue mushy post. I have to brag on my better half a little. Most days being a working mom is incredibly tough.Trying to balance a job, a baby, a civic life, a social life, and a home can be exhausting. And there are many days I feel I am doing a terribly inadequate job at all of it. And then my amazing husband will notice the laundry is put away or tell me how awesome of a mom I am or remind me how much he loves me. Those moments when he reminds me I am capable, adequate, and doing a great job are precious. They are fuel to keep…
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The Art of Saying No
Tweet You learn a lot of things as a new mom. I mean a lot (these I will continue to elaborate on). But when you are a new mom and a working mom, one thing you have to learn quickly is the art of saying no. This is something I have NEVER been good at nor ever thought I would need to be good at saying. I was just always the person who kept all the balls in the air and came through in a pinch. And then, H came along. All of a sudden, I was doing well to just figure out this whole mom thing. Forget trying to…
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Love in a World of Hate
Tweet While I don’t often add my voice to the popular news cycles, I feel the need to once again speak up. If for no other reason than because someday I want my child to know his mother was willing to speak up and he should be unafraid to do the same. Tragedy. Horror. Shock. Sadness. Anger. Disbelief. I am not sure what went through your head as the news of Orlando broke over the weekend. Honestly, I rarely check my phone over the weekend and we haven’t actually turned our TV on in a really long time so I didn’t know anything about it until Sunday morning in church…
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