As if 5 kids under 8, 2 dogs, 1 cat, and 1 tortoise were not enough for two people that work full time…. We want to start a homestead. Dreamers In the last few years Travis and I were feeling unsettled about how we were raising our children. We are country people though we were […]
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Okay so I’m not really a stay at home mom. But I do get a really good feel of what it would be like when I take these extended maternity leaves. It kind of feels how it did back in 2020 when the world shut down on my maternity leave so it lasted a little
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It’s like shoveling snow in a blizzard. That is certainly what it feels like to try to keep a house clean as a stay-at-home mom with 5 small kids. Of course, I’m not actually a stay-at-home mom but that is what I’ve been since I had my 5th child so that is what I’ll write
I just finished a cross-country move with FIVE kids. That in itself was one of the hardest parts about this move, so let’s talk about the trip! To Fly or Drive Always the big question on any big trip. Flying with 5 kids is EXPENSIVE. I have two under two but has anyone else ever
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I want to take a break in this chaos of moving to write how much fitness has changed my life. And no this isn’t just going to be about the fact that I partnered with Bodi and their programs. This is going to be about how getting into fitness changed my identity as a mother.
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This is a relevant topic this week as Travis and I made our decision to be done with kids more permanent. Before this week, I had spent a lot of time asking other people in real life and on Instagram, (and google) how they knew they were done having kids. I often wondered “Will I
Let’s talk about what it is like to start a family in grad school. Or honestly just to have kids while in grad school in general. I feel like parents pursing a PhD get a bad rap- and I have met a few mothers that give it that bad rap. But let’s get into it.
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Okay time to get a little bit into how I juggle it all. I admit, having a baby while finishing a PhD and moving across the country is not great timing. It is crazy and I felt pretty crazy at times during it. Let’s go back to January. I started working on my dissertation in
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Another Move One of my Soldiers once said to me “I’m uncomfortable when people thank me for my service because I don’t do anything to deserve it”. I thought about this and said “you make sacrifices every single day just be being in the military.” And it’s true. We don’t all fight in a war
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Why a Blog? Okay so clearly I want to change. The goal is to find balance, slow down, live purposefully and enjoy life. So why start a blog? Why add another thing to my already overflowing plate. Well I spent several months of the past year writing a dissertation. This thing was a beast at