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Why me?……Why NOT me?

03|1|2017

If you’re new here, you maybe don’t know that on Wednesdays I love to talk about a #wcw (women crush wednesday if you’ve been living under a rock…j/k lol)……someone who especially inspired me for the week and who was on my heart to give a shout-out to or about women empowerment, girl bosses/boss babes, being a woman of Faith and really simply just about GIRL POWER.

Today, I wanted to share this post to talk a little more about my journey from being EMPTY and EMBARRASSED to being EMPOWERED.

I spent most of my life walking through the days asking “why me.”

~Why did I have to struggle with my weight and body image and food?

~Why did I have to grow up without much money?

~Why wasn’t I more like {insert name}?

~Why wasn’t I smarter?

~Why wasn’t I better at trigonometry?? (Thank God for my besties Tasha and Traci in high school or that could’ve turned out badly lol).

~Why did I have to leave my friends on the weekends and summers to go spend with my dad?

I was stuck in this vicious cycle of WHY ME. What did I do to deserve all these struggles?

Looking back on all those things I asked myself….and God….of “why me?” kinda makes me think….”Good grief Dina, maybe the REAL problem was you were a spoiled, entitled little BRAT.” lol

A few years ago, I found two outlets that helped me find the courage and the resources to start asking WHY NOT ME instead?

Coaching & writing 🙂

~I always felt so alone in my struggles with weight and my body image and food back then but now I know that a lot of girls…even women….struggle with those things. It makes me very sad and one of my missions in life now is to help girls and women alike overcome if that’s something they struggle with. And, I know now I was never really alone in how I felt about myself….I honestly just thought something was wrong with ME.

~We may not have had much money growing up but we lived in warm houses and never went without a meal. How many kids growing up in the world can say the same?

~I honestly wanted to be someone else. I had a few friends who I pretty much just wanted to be. I wanted to look like them…be as smart as them….have their lives. I wanted to be anyone but me. In the words of Kurt Cobain, “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” Ugh, yes…what a waste and it makes me very sad that I spent so much of my life wanting to be anyone but me.

~It turns out I was just the right amount of smart! Ha go figure. So, maybe I would never have passed Trig without my girlfriends and maybe I would never have passed Chem without the smartest kid in our class being MY lab partner, BUT, I was an honor student when I stood up on that stage on graduation day. We were the last class to graduate from our high school before they shut the doors and I got to stand up there and give a speech surrounded by my friends and family. It would be YEARS before I would recognize that as the accomplishment it was.

~And, I should have been thanking God every day for a dad who would drive 12 hours round trip just to see me every other weekend. He so much wanted to spend time with me that he even actually “technically” kidnapped me when my parents were first separated when I was about 2 years old. That’s maybe for another blog post but he had my grandpa pick me up for his weekend to see me and we just kept driving….from North Dakota to Washington. My grandpa didn’t know what was going on and we would kid him over the years about being the getaway driver. Gpa never thought it was very funny. But, how many girls grow up without a dad in their life? I was beyond blessed.

It’s taken a lot of blood, sweat and many many TEARS to let go of my past. And, sometimes….and even recently…..it started to weigh me down again, but I can finally say, I FEEL EMPOWERED!

Empowered to go back and find that little girl who got lost along the way! Empowered to change! Empowered to let go! Empowered to help other women do the same! Empowered to be a stronger mother! Empowered to work harder on my marriage! Empowered to write this blog! Empowered to write a book! Empowered to grow a team of like-minded women! Empowered to fail forward! Empowered to never waste another minute trying to be anyone other than the person that I am!

#wcw (v1)

02|15|2017

My first #wcw since the blog being back up is a shout out to my little blonde. (btw, she frequents my #wcw and seriously every week she is my crush)

Here’s her bio 🙂

Name: Brooklyn but I also go by B, Brookie, Brooke & Brookers

Weight: unknown

Height: somewhere under 4′

Eye Color: blue

Hair Color: true blonde

Profession: Fun Seeker

Hobbies: Playing with friends; lovin’ on babies; watching funny baby vids on YouTube; writing on her white board;
playing school; playing house; playing daycare, playing dolls, basically just playing; watching Netflix;
iMessaging her mom’s contacts on her iPod from mom’s old AppleID
(sorry everyone!! i should maybe try to figure out how to just stop her from doing it
but she has so much fun with it that I don’t have the heart to do it yet….
but if she messages her auntie at 4:30 a.m. again, I may not have a choice….
the new rule is she can only msg people when it’s light outside lol)

Favorite foods: mac-n-cheese, pizza, cantalope, cereal

Favorite drink: chocolate milk

Favorite thing about school: recess

Favorite movie: Trolls

Favorite weekend activity: SLEEPOVERS

Favorite exercise: dancing…I love doing Zumba & Country Heat with my mom, dodgeball & I’m starting gymnastics soon!

Favorite parent: my mom (hehe jk ~ she likes me-n-all but she’s definitely a daddy’s girl)

Passions: love to tell people I love them, mostly via iMessage; love my dog; can’t wait to ride my new electric scooter

Favorite sayings: “Mom, I’m sooooo bored.”

Fashion: I’m a little like anything goes…but I do LOVE tank-tops, t’s & shorts!

This is all her! She’s funny and smart and challenges me every day. She totally has her own, unique sense of style. She’s a spitfire and a tomboy-girlie-girl. She makes me want to do and be more. She is my sunshine. #todaywillbeincrediblygolden

#wcw

11|23|2016

This week’s #womenempowered is going out to Jillian Michaels!

I loved her on The Biggest Loser ~ even though the results from the show are unrealistic given how many hours a day those people work out and the amount of weight they could drop in a week. AND, who wouldn’t thrive in an environment where there is always healthy food choices around you. Ha, pretty sure life would be easier….ooooh, and on a side note, if I could have someone just prepare all my healthy meals for the week AND could afford it, I totally would. A made and a healthy chef are at a tie in my book. Anyhoo, I loved her 30-day Shred and quite a few other short but killer workouts. And, her Body Revolution program was probably the first program I ever finished. BUT, I didn’t see the value and importance in nutrition *yet* so while I did notice improvements, they weren’t anything like they could’ve been.

And, I love to see someone so fit who has a transformation story! It makes them so much more relatable!

She is tough and I think that’s why I love her. Yes, she would totally make me cry and pretty sure I’d be terrified to work out with her…but crying and being scared is good sometimes lol.

Who else loves Jillian??

Ooooh, and I also LOVE her book Unlimited! It’s definitely one you should get if you are a dreamer but have a hard time finding your why and how! The image below will take you to Amazon if you wanna pick it up or download it! 🙂

Happy Women Empowered Wednesday!! #wew #wcw

Women Empowered Wednesday ~ Anna Woods

11|16|2016

Today’s empowered women #wew AND #wcw post is going out to my girl Anna Woods.

And, “today’s encouraging word is……FEARLESS.” I love that 🙂

Anna has been such an inspiration to me ever since she joined our team.

She is caring and passionate and a wonderful wife and mom…..oh and seriously ripped. She has taught me a lot about strength and empowering other women and business and how being strong and fearless is more important than being skinny and comfortable.

She had a post on Facebook about a month ago that really spoke to my heart. She talked about how for the longest time in her fitness journey, she was working out out of fear. She was focused on the scale and that number and an idea of fit that society largely has. And, it wasn’t until she started working out out of PURPOSE that she began to truly transform her life.

That. Hit. Me. Hard.

I think for the longest time I was working out and trying to “diet” out of fear.

Fear of staying the same.

Fear of gaining more weight.

Fear of what people thought of me.

Fear of being labeled lazy.

Fear of being a failure.

And, maybe ultimately fear of never being loved.

Living in fear never worked.

Coaching and the amazingly inspiring people on my teams have taught me to focus on my health & fitness out of my PURPOSE….not out of my fears.

Through coaching I found my faith again. I started focusing on God-confidence instead of my self-confidence.

Through coaching I found my peace with the scale. (You can bet it still frustrates the crap outta me sometimes but I don’t live and die by what it says anymore.)

Through coaching I found that’s it’s absolutely okay…..even NECESSARY to fail! Failure is just a part of life and it teaches us more than our successes ever do.

Through coaching I found a second family who build me up, show me how to push hard for something I believe in, pray over me and treat me exactly the same when I’m failing as when I’m succeeding.

Through coaching I found that it’s okay to do things afraid. We will always be afraid of something. Even the most successful people are. They just got REALLY good at doing things anyway. Their fears of staying the same were greater than their fears of taking a leap of faith.

Through coaching I found that people do love me….and more importantly, I began to love myself.

And, through coaching, my FB newsfeed is filled with things like miss Anna posted just this morning.

“Fearless.

I feel like I’ve had to talk in faith and fearlessness these past few months for several reasons involving my kids, my business, and my investments of time and money.

And it’s not easy. One thing I’m learning though is how important the influences around you are to continuing on this path of trust and hope and faith it will all turn out.

For me, that has become:
Music.
Podcasts.
Reading devotions and encouragement.
My close-knit family and friends who have a say in my life.
Quiet time.
And my clients.

It’s easier to block out the fear and be fearless when you surround yourself with fearlessness–ha! For real though. One foot in front of the other.”

#befearless

Anna is a true entrepreneur and is also a personal trainer and has developed her own program SheStrength! Her business sense amazes me. And, we have a lot in common with our personal struggles.

I, too, have had to talk AND walk in faith and fearlessness for a long time now. My family, my business, my time, the book I intend to write. It’s hard sometimes to be an entrepreneur and still work a 9to5 and juggle family and hard life decisions and coaching and my fitness journey and keep up with this blog and try to get over the fear of writing the dang book and drink wine and watch Netflix lol.

So, to get through all that I listen to classical music regularly now. I have 4 awesome and inspiring podcasts I listen to every week. I read my devotions and personal development books every day. I’m surrounded by people who support and care about me. I cherish my quiet time and make it a priority because if I’m not focusing on me I can’t be good for anyone else. And, my clients mean the WORLD to me. Every one of them. And, they inspire me more than I could ever them.

Anna has reminded me that us coaches don’t like to be comfortable. We are surrounded by influencers who push us to be better…who push us to do things afraid….who push us to be fearless. We BELIEVE. We don’t have a scarcity mentality. We live in our purpose. We do things afraid. We work hard but we also love hard and enjoy the things that truly matter. We focus on the small changes over time that lead to BIG amazing things. We share our stories. We are vulnerable. We never give up.

Here are just SOME of those influencers 🙂

This is our larger team, Team Impact, at the Wildrose Salon for a team party in Nashville this summer!

And, I’ve shared this collage before but I love it so much I’m sharing it again. These are more of the faces of my influencers in my little coaching world 🙂 We are teachers, nurses, physical therapists, office managers, stylists, stay-at-home-moms and more!
#womenempowered #befearless #faithittilyoumakeit #faithinmotion

I’ll leave this right here 🙂 #imnolongeraslavetofear

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Women Empowered (v2)

11|2|2016

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I. Love. This.

“Here’s to the girls…..”

out there becoming more confident…

out there who are know their worth…

out there who give and help and inspire yet know when to say no…

out there who are the perfect combination of cautious and free…

out there who don’t stand for mediocrity or being mistreated…

out there who aren’t afraid to say what they want and go after it…

out there who have let someone else see you cry…

out there who know when to fight and when to run and when to do both…

Ya’ll are FIGHTERS and here’s to YOU!

#wcw Lysa Terkeurst

10|6|2016

Hey hey! It’s day 2 of 365 in my little blogging adventure.

If you missed it yesterday, I am challenging myself to “make something every day” and write a blog post every day for an entire year. I kinda rambled my way thru a post yesterday because I was inspired to share my little challenge that I was inspired to do earlier that morning and wanted to put it out there right away!…in part, because I didn’t wanna chicken out and in part because I was so excited. So, I didn’t waste any time and I blogged and people watched in the hotel I was staying at in New Orleans…so yes, it wasn’t the best-written but you can expect that to happen as I do this.

And, now I type my 2nd of 365 (at least) in the airport in Denver waiting for my last flight home.

I can already tell I won’t be promised to be able to PUBLISH every day due to wifi restrictions BUT I WILL write a post every day!

Truth be told, I’ve tried to do this BLOG A DAY thing before but I guess I haven’t been serious or inspired enough. I’m feeling ENOUGH right now. I’m CERTAIN I won’t feel ENOUGH every day as I set out on this journey but the fun thing about commitment and being accountable is it pushes you even when you don’t FEEL LIKE IT. What do they say about that??……

And, it’s SO true! You won’t ALWAYS feel like working out. Heck, many NEVER feel like working out but they do it anyway! You won’t ALWAYS feel like eating right but you will ALWAYS be thankful for the results of how you look and feel if you do. You won’t ALWAYS feel like going to work but if you’re present and grateful, you will prosper where you’re planted.

So, here’s to pushing through even when I may not FEEL like writing.

Anyhoo, on with today’s post!

My Woman Crush Wednesday is going out to Lysa Terkeurst.

If you aren’t familiar with who she is, you can find out more about her here. I won’t spend a lot of time telling you who she is ~ I more wanted to share how her words have influenced and inspired me. She’s not only become one of my favorite all-time authors, she’s become such a source of inspiration with Proverbs31 Ministries as well.

I love, admire and am inspired by her Faith, her vulnerability, her honesty.

She talks about her Faith, her struggles of being a wife and a mom, about her own struggles with food, about relationships and how hard they can be, and even about a word most all woman hate….CELLULITE.

I’m sure I’m inspired by her because I’m striving to be the kind of writer and storyteller she is. We all have a story. And, my truth and my story is only as helpful to share for as truthful and vulnerable it is. Sharing our stories doesn’t set us free and help others unless they are real and open and honest.

I’ve read several of her books now and wanted to share because they’ve helped me so much.

If you struggle with food and body image, I have to highly recommend her Made to Crave and Made to Crave Devotional. They are so so good and I know you will relate and love her for her honesty like I do.

If you struggle with saying yes to EVERYONE and EVERYTHING, you NEED The Best Yes in your life! It’s okay to say no sometimes. And, you will honor God, yourself and your family more by doing so. It will help you find the right things in your life to say yes to and most importantly find peace with saying no.

If you struggle with feeling lost, rejected and lonely even though you’re not alone, Uninvited is for you. I’m currently reading this book and I’m growing so much with each and every page I read. If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I have struggled with so many things in my life. Feelings of insecurity, body image issues, issues with food, depression, anxiety, and feelings of guilt, fear and doubt. And, while I’ve overcome the paralyzing heaviness of those things, I’ve found it’s so so easy to fall back into these feelings and tendencies.

You see, I’m a dreamer. I always have been. I’ve just always lacked the courage to take action on my dreams. When I found coaching, I started taking action. I started digging deep. I dove into personal development and growth. I started asking myself the tough questions. I started doing things I was afraid of. I started taking more chances. I started actually chasing those dreams.

But, something happened after I started taking action. I started to have doubters around me. And, it would often seem like the more action I took and the more I chased, the more resistance I met. And, since I’m human, when that resistance came, the self- doubts start coming back….feeling less than came back….feeling sad and anxious came back. I started feeling uninvited to my own dreams. And, I kinda felt like ok maybe God is trying to tell me something. Maybe this is all too much. Maybe this isn’t for me. Maybe it’s not the right path…even if it FEELS like the right path.

This book is helping me see things for what they really are. While of course I have to be true to my faith and my family first, we HAVE to keep chasing our dreams. And, often the harder we push and the bigger the dreams, the more resistance we are going to meet. The bigger the dream, the more courage and strength it will require to achieve it. But, we can’t give up. We can’t give up on ourselves. We have to push through the rejections….push through the fears….push through the feelings of being less than perfect….because we’re not NOT less than….but we’re also not perfect. We will fall. But we will get back up. This book can help you with so much.

Her words are amazing and so relatable. Even if you’re just struggling in your relationships right now, this book can help. Here are just a few things I jotted down in my journal today ~ “Live from the abundant place that you are loved, and you won’t find yourself begging others for scraps of love.” And, “The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.” Think about those two statements for a while. Ask yourself what they mean to you. I know what they mean to me.

So, I hope you learn more about Lysa. Check out her site. Check out Proverbs31 on FB. Get some of her books and start overcoming! And, if you do, I would LOVE to hear about it!!

Live loved,
Dina

(oh, yes, btw, I’m totally stealing this from Uninvited. Lysa has a an author friend who at a book signing,
signed her books, Live Loved and then her name. I absolutely LOVE it.)

Woman Crush Wednesday #wcw v5

08|31|2016

So, a bunch of us girls from work went to Bad Moms last Sunday night and it was so funny most of us cried and/or peed our pants from laughing so hard.

Now, if you haven’t seen it, I should warn you ~ it’s risque…there’s plenty of swearing…and it’s freaking awesomely hilarious so if you don’t like either of those first two things AND you don’t like to laugh, this MAY not be the show for you.

Before we went, my sister had told us about an interview she saw with Kristin Bell (one of the actors in it who was PERFECT in her role and seriously cracked me up) about how if you watch that show as a mom and you CAN’T relate to any of it, then you’re one of two things….in denial….or in denial….lol.

So, my #wcw this week is going out to the cast of Bad Moms ‘cuz these chicks are gorgeous and so talented and I’m embracing my bad-hot-mess-mom-ness (new word alert!!) for what it is lol.

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#icanteven #wehavetobringdownalltheperfectmoms

Ya’ll heard me talk before about being a hot mess mom….even have a support group for that shit (which it’s slowly getting off the ground but I’m still so excited about it) and if you care to join us you can fill out this app detailing your hotmessness and I will let you know if you meet the required level of said hotmessness lol.

So, during and after that movie, I seriously had to stop thinking about all the things I epically fail at as far as B is concerned. I won’t share them all…..as even the few I’m about to share might scare you a little. But, I wanna share my stories and then share why even tho I fail a little every day as a mom, I also succeed….every day….as a mom.

Her favorite song is Girl Crush. Literally knows all the words. (Well, okay, truth be told she does have some lyricosis when she sings it and some of the words she replaces with her own are HILARIOUS….kinda reminds me of Jan Munyon for any of you out there reading this who know her lol.) Thank goodness B has no idea what the song means but it’s not good when she recommends it to her little friends. And, I probably made the #badmoms list for some of their moms. ~ But…..I’m gonna chalk this one up to many of you moms out there also have a few choice words or lyrics to songs that your kid(s) know that you’d SO rather they didn’t know….but they do know….lol. I don’t think she’s ready for a conversation about that song, so I’ll just keep trying to distract her when it comes on.

I love Little Big Town btw ~ and the gal that sings Girl Crush…LOVE her hair 🙂

I let her wear pretty much anything she wants to wear. I try so hard to get her to choose nice, clean, matching, presentable outfits….but she OFTEN goes back to change into something else….especially if I have to leave the house earlier and dad takes her to school. Earlier this week, I left them early and when I picked her up after daycare, she had on a seriously distressed tank that’s pretty much see-through and has a hole in the front. Today, she wore a t-shirt her auntie let her have that was like 3 sizes too big and was red, white & blue with a pair of short-short brown & pink leopard print shorts that you could barely see she had on ‘cuz the t was so long and blown out shoes I just bought her. Not only do I pick my battles with her, I don’t want to squash her creativity. And, while I cringe at the way she seemingly disregards how red white and blue and brown and pink SO do not go together, I let her be her. I’m ALLLL about the statement “you do you girl.” I spent my whole life being suffocatingly self-conscious and you can be certain I won’t purposely make her start questioning her sense of style or ANYTHING ELSE for that matter. And, then there are the times it’s TOTALLY on me….like the fact I’m often in such a hurry for things like….CHURCH….that I don’t stop to realize the pretty NECKLACE she just put on is actually beer mug “mardi gras” beads from a Gnarly Barley BEER RUN I helped with in June. ~Let’s try let our kids be kids. Obviously as parents we have to set rules and control what we can but I also believe letting them find and express themselves is beyond important. I mean, maybe don’t let them wear a beer mug necklace to church or anything but….#letgoandletGod #imsorry

The tshirt and short shorts and blown out shoes lol.
Yup, this was a pic I snapped in the playground that day….after church….when I finally realized what she had on. #yesthosearelittlebeermugs 🙂
We often don’t get to her school binder until we’re just about to rush out the door in the morning (yes, I’m still getting used to this whole check for homework thing….they didn’t have that in K) and I consider it a bonus if I actually remember to sign it every day. So, she read a little book to me she did yesterday in the car this morning on the ride to school. I wasn’t terribly proud of myself for it being that way BUT she was still VERY proud to show me it in the car. ~Often the PLACE and the TIMING matter far less to them than it does to you. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Just show them how proud you are of them EVERY opportunity you get….even if it means you’re 5 minutes for work…..again.
Trust me….she doesn’t always love that I’m trying to take pics of her. But, what can I say….I’m obsessed with her!!! lol
I often SUGGEST she invite a friend for a sleepover so I can have a Friday or Saturday night to myself to work or read in a hot bath or watch Netflix (or often all the above!). ~Be okay with finding creative ways to carve out some alone time for yourself! We are only as good for our families as we are to and for ourselves.
I BUY THE CUPCAKES and you can read about my last blog post talking about this here lol. ~I used to feel guilty about this one but I’m just not that passionate about baking….I’m not that good at it….I don’t feel like I have time for it….and I eat far more than I give away. So, I NEEEEEEEED to just buy the cupcakes. And, seriously, if you’ve seen the movie and the part where she shows up to the bake sale with a half-eaten, store-bought container of donut holes?!? #classic #getsome #excepttheywouldaallbeengone NOW, if B decides she wants us to start doing different things together….like baking….I will find a way to support that. But, I’m kinda hoping she will decide it can be something like shooting hoops in the driveway instead lol.
This is soooooo #onpoint #lol. #imeanmycupcakeswouldNOTlooklikethat #anddidinotsaytheywouldbegone
She literally still gets a sippy cup of chocolate milk at night so she can lay down and drink it while she winds down from her day. I’ve tried to break this one many times and all that ends up happening is MOM wants to pull her hair out. ~Pick your battles. Granted, this is one I should fight harder for and I can only imagine a TON of you out there are cringing and rolling your eyes at the thought of this still happening BUT you’re not there at 9 p.m. at our house when the struggle is real to even remotely try to get her to go to bed. And, for real, if someone gave me a sippy of wine and told me to lay down and watch Netflix for a while, I would totally do it.

Oh you better believe I had to go see if that was really a thing….I’m in luck.
She doesn’t sleep in her own bed….like ever. I talk about this often enuf that I won’t bore ya’ll with that saga again but it’s a total #epicmomfail and I know it but I also kinda resigned myself to the fact she won’t ALWAYS want to do this. So, it will eventually happen. I mean really, she’s not gonna wanna tell her middle school friends she still sleeps with her mommy lol. ~I honestly knew other parents who “co-slept” when she was little and I was always like “OH HELL NO that’s not gonna be us.” Until…..it. was. us. Never say never my bad-hot-mess-mom friends. I say you do whatever the heck works for you and your family and if anyone wants to try judge you for it, well, you know what to do.
I have a hard time explaining conceptual things to her. For being so creative in many ways, she is SO literal and by-the-book in others. Like when she had a friend stay with us last weekend….We hit Applebee’s for lunch after church and then the park and splashpad and on the way home and just as we were getting ready to drop her friend off, she turned to B and said, “Brooklyn, don’t you wish this day would last forever?” B looked at her like she was crazy….just totally confused….and said, “Huh? Like what do you mean? It’s gonna get dark soon…..”….and I’m thinking in her mind she was saying hmmmmm, yeah girrrrrrl, I mean it’s gonna get dark and we’ll have to go to bed eventually ‘cuz our moms and dads will make us and I’m so confused by what you’re saying and it just doesn’t work like that does it?!? Ha, I was almost in tears from laughing. ~I often feel like I’m maybe failing on all levels on this one. While I want her to have common sense…which of course she does….I also don’t want her to take life and things people say too seriously. So, it’s hard to be able to try explain things to her without trying to tell her how she should think….ya know what I mean? I want her to be able to instead of thinking outside the box, think that THERE IS NO BOX. So, I’m gonna keep on dreaming for her and I’m gonna hold out hope she really will be a dreamer like me….only that she finds who she wants to be in life way before I did. Although, I know I needed to wait for her in order to find that for myself ~ so really, I guess it all worked out the way it was supposed to…and I know it will for her, too 🙂 So rest assured that we do the best with what we are given, and God has a plan.

This was the cutest picture of them that day ~ they were watching a plane land before we went in to lunch.
(Notice B’s boots! GORGEOUS dress from her Auntie…and then….those boots lol. #whatever #youdoyougirl #mommylovesyou)

MOMS ~ Remember you ARE enuf! It’s okay to not always have your shit together and to not have all the answers. And, it’s okay to have #epicmomfail after #epicmomfail….we’re all just here #failingforward. All you gotta do is love them hard and teach them to love God, themselves and others hard, too.

And, to prove my point, a friend who has 3 LITTLE girls, one a baby baby, posted this on Facebook today and I had to totally steal it.

Every mom’s gotta have goals….what’s YOUR goals today?!? 🙂

Woman Crush Wednesday #wcw v4

08|18|2016

This week’s #wcw is going out to ELLEN!

I’ve loved Ellen ever since her first sitcom.

And, her daytime show is one of my faves….even tho I never get to watch it…’cuz I have to work’n’all.

But, one thing I really REALLY like to do is laugh.

This chick makes me laugh.

Like I seriously think she’s may be one of the funniest people on the planet ~ (Fallon and JT are on my list, too ~ so thought I’d throw this in)

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AND, if you love Ellen, too, and you haven’t checked out ellentube, you totally should.

The world needs more laughter. She makes me laugh. Therefore I love her.