Sometimes as we drive home the road ahead blurs and we can hardly see through the tears. Another goodbye. Another night alone. Another drive spent wondering when we’ll see him again. Many times wondering if we’ll ever see him again. Last night I didn’t want to go to sleep because that would require crawling into an empty bed–I didn’t want to turn off the Christmas lights because a dark home feels like a lonelytell me the rest!
The Marine Corps: destroyer of idols
Last night I had the chance to see my husband for an hour. Sixty minutes. It was wonderful. Our situation really is great. First, getting to see him at all a huge gift because many wives don’t even get sixty minutes, sometimes for a year at a time. Second, he’s only gone for three weeks. You seasoned military wives are probably chuckling right now–three weeks is nothing in the Marinetell me the rest!
When the days blur and Christmas spirit is lost
The house is quiet. The baby is sleeping. My husband is gone. Just like yesterday and the day before that and pretty much every day since we moved to North Carolina. Now the baby is awake and instead of eating he’s squirming and trying to climb on the keyboard and finding all sorts of ways to cause enormous amounts of pain with his tiny razor blade fingernails. I’m trying totell me the rest!
Over the edge of a boom
My husband has been encouraging me recently with constant reminders that getting started is the hardest part of running a business. Last week I wrote about the challenge that has been starting my own business, and I mentioned that I didn’t have any new business updates. Are you ready for this? That’s right, y’all–it finally “boomed.” The hardest part of starting a business is, of course, starting it. I am livingtell me the rest!
Working from home: You really can have it all
As much as I’ve always wanted to be a mom, I dreaded the idea of leaving the workplace behind. After all, my job was my mental stimulation, my routine, and my friends–I didn’t want to give it up. When I found out I was pregnant with my son, there was no question about it. I knew I wouldn’t be going back to work. Baby giggles and naps on the sofatell me the rest!
The flavors of fall: 4 ingredient breakfast butternut squash-adillas
All morning long our china has been rattling in the cupboards and our ceilings have been shaking as if a fat guy is doing ballet upstairs. It’s artillery rounds from the military base we live next to, and the sounds of a war zone are hardly conducive to sleep, leaving me up far too early. There is one thing that excites me about getting up early and it is this: I cantell me the rest!
Sometimes we just need to hide in the closet
My son can’t walk. He can’t crawl, he can barely scoot, and he is certainly not mobile. Yet sometimes I still need to just go and hide from him. Yesterday afternoon my husband walked into our closet to find me curled up next to the electric fireplace (which we moved in there to keep the baby warm at night–yes, he sleeps in our closet). In the dark. With the door closed.tell me the rest!
21 Day Fix round 2: week 3 (we finally finished!)
Today is day 22 and both my husband and I have yet to break the eating program. He had Shakeology for breakfast and I had cottage cheese and a cup of tea–we don’t have tons of junk in the house but we have some hidden high in a cupboard and even though I know it would taste good I don’t really want it. It has been three weeks since I’ve tastedtell me the rest!
21 Day Fix round 2: week 2 (we said no to all the candy)
The big bowl of individually wrapped mini chocolates sat by our door, hardly touched, taunting us. I just wanted one. For all my fellow healthy eaters on Halloween, I feel your pain. This was a rough one. It didn’t get any better later in the week when we walked into Red Robin and saw smore’s sweet potato fries on the menu–we had to physically put down the menu and push it away sotell me the rest!
The edge of a boom
These last few weeks have been seriously frustrating. First, I tried to host an essential oils class and nobody came. Then I put out a brilliant Facebook ad on Beachbody income potential and I received over 100 comments from interested people and I wrote to and then followed up with every single one of them and yet I didn’t make one sale. Today I posted on all the Facebook mom groupstell me the rest!