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Life can be messy.

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When I started this blog, it was to document milestones in Rylee’s life and share them with family and friends near and far. It was meant to serve as a pseudo baby book until I got my -ish together and got a real one. Fast forward 5-ish years and one more kid and somewhere along the way something changed. Yes, I still blog for those original reasons, but I also blog for more than that now. I’ve met an amazing community through this little blog. Three of my closest and dearest friends I’ve met because of blogging. But this whole blogging this can be a double edged sword. When you put things out there in the world, you make yourself vulnerable. Open to judgement. People making assumptions about your life because of the 500 word posts you share a couple of times a week. There are so many blogs out there that continually paint a “life is rosy” picture for their life.

If you haven’t noticed, I’m not exactly one of those people.

I’m not one to go on and on about how awful my life is {mainly because it’s not}, but I’m also not afraid to put it out there that things aren’t always perfect. Like how being super pregnant isn’t always that fun. Or how having a 3 week old baby is hard. Or how new schedules and new school years are hard. Or my most recent favorite…sometimes school pictures are really bad.

Just because I share these less than perfect things and put it out there that I don’t “cherish every moment”, doesn’t automatically mean that I’m unhappy or that something is wrong.

Do I have an amazing life? Personally, I happen to think I do. An amazing husband. Sweet girls. A good job. A beautiful property.

But at the same time, life is just plain messy sometimes and it’s not always perfect and that’s ok. Sometimes work drives me crazy. Sometimes my kids drive me crazy. Other times it’s my husband or housework or the never-ending piles of crap on my kitchen island. {seriously…why is that the catch-all!?}

There are days I feel like I have my shit together and I could take over the world. Other days I feel like I’m being completely consumed by life trying to see through the fog. A good majority of days I’m just teetering on the edge.

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Do I wish that I had more “conquer the world” days over the foggy days? Yup. Right about the time I think I have things figured out, life will change again. But guess what? That’s just life. Kids get older, needs change. What seems overwhelming today, I may be laughing about next month. What matters is that at the end of the day, I still go to bed and thank God for the crazy because  I am blessed beyond what I ever thought possible.

Hey Monday Hey

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No matter what other people have told me, friends and family alike, I’ve never really felt like I’m a “writer”. I write much like I talk and I don’t particularly think that’s anything I’d call “writing”. When I think of someone being a “writer” I think of books. Or even blog posts that all have a beginning, middle and end. Ones that have a purpose. Ones that move you.

Sure I have written like that before, and there’s even posts I’ve written that I’m particularly proud of, but I don’t think I do it on a regular basis enough to call myself a writer.

You may or may not have noticed, but I have posted every single day for the month so far. Yes, even on the weekends. Or, chances are, you didn’t notice…and that’s cool too. Either way, I’m participating in this year’s NaBloPoMo, or for you non-bloggers wondering what the hell that means…National Blog Posting Month. I’ve made the commitment to myself that I will post every single day in the month of November.

If you’ve been around these parts for a while, you may remember that I did it, or at least attempted to, a couple of years ago. I had the month all planned out, creating new “features” on the blog like recipe reviews and such.

This year I’m taking a different approach. I’m doing it to write. Nothing more, nothing less. I want to get back into the habit of it being a habit. A lot of my posts for the month will probably be random stream of consciousness posts that I don’t even share or “promote” once I hit publish. Not because I don’t want people to read what I’ve written, but because I’m doing this for myself more than anything.

So far, all my posts have been quick little recaps written from my phone. That could end up being the majority of what I do for the month, but the point will be that I’ve done it.

Anyway, my point is this…whether you want to or not, you’re going to be seeing a lot more of me around these parts in November. So here we go!

Sunday Tired

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I’m sure part of it has to do with the whole DST thing but I’m positive it’s mainly because today Lindsey and I drove up to Portland for the PNWBlogger holiday party. Then when I got home it was go-go-go with two kiddos that think it’s an hour later than it really is.

Point is? I’m beat and if it weren’t for making the commitment to myself to do the NaBloPoMo challenge there’s no way I’d be blogging right now. From my phone no less.

I had a great time today with a bunch of other blogging ladies and believe it or not I went through an entire blogging event without taking a single selfie. I feel like that’s breaking some sort of blogger covenant. I will be sharing more when I’m not wanting to check my eyelids for holes. I’ll leave you with a couple of shots from the day and then I’m off to snuggle my sweet Reese to sleep then build a Lego house for a mini dinosaur with Rylee. I’ll see you back here tomorrow.

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Shopping Dates

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Over the last few months my sister and I have started a new weekend ritual. Shopping dates. More specifically, grocery shopping dates.The girls and I load up and head into town, meal plan, grocery list and reusable grocery bags in hand. Sometimes we stop for coffee first but not always. We both park in our “normal spot”, grab our carts and get to it. The girls love the time with their auntie and I love the time with my sister. And I also love having a bit of backup on days one (or both) of the girls decide shopping is for losers.

It sounds ridiculous, I know, but our grocery shopping dates have quickly become something I cherish about my weekends.

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Halloween twenty thirteen

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So. Halloween.

Let me just say that every year for me since having kids it’s been the same. Living in the country is great for so many things but in Halloween night it makes trick or treating a touch difficult. I rush out the door of work to go get the kids them rush into town. Grab a quick dinner with friends before we rush out to trick-or-treat in hopes to be done and have the kiddos in bed close-ish to their bed times. Just thinking about it gets me on the brink of being overwhelmed. Then the rushing begins. Tensions are kinda high. Then the trick or treating starts and all the anxiousness is gone, kids are having fun and all is right with the world. Last night was no different.

All in all we had a pretty great time. We went with the same friends we had gone with last year. Ry was of course super into it. Reese shocked the heck out of me and was also super into it. Well, in her own way. She wanted to be right up in the mix with the big kids. If you didn’t let her walk up the driveway on her own she’d get all sorts of upset. It was hilarious. And absolutely adorable.

Reese was a dinosaur. The costume she wore is one my mom made almost 20 years ago for my cousin. Rylee was a clown again this year. The same exact costume as last year because apparently the face paint job I did last year was inadequate and she wanted to do better this year.

These were the best pictures I could get but it’s a night I never want to forget.

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