Hello readers! Long time no see! A lot has been happening in our lives the last couple of years. But most recently.... We are expecting a baby!! Woohoo!!! We found out right before Christmas, told our family on Christmas day and have been enjoying (mostly) every second of it since then! I am currently 4…
"I don't know how I'm supposed to make it through this 8 month deployment. How am I supposed to live alone? How will I cope each day? How do I do this?!" I repeated the phrase before he left many, MANY, times, usually with tears in my eyes. But now that we are on the…
Continue reading ➞ 10 Things That Helped Me Get Through Deployment
This is the 2nd part of the moving post. Click Here to read last weeks moving post. As I have mentioned before in this post, physically moving is not the part that sucks. I mean it is definitely hard, but it is not the hardest part. You see, there are two parts to moving: The…
Continue reading ➞ The Emotional Side of Moving: “I can’t do this again”
Nebraska to Virginia. Virginia to Florida. Florida to California. California to North Carolina (yikes). That's a total of over 7,000 miles. That's all the states we've moved to. And, somehow, we have kept most of our sanity. Definitely a few bumps and rocks on the way (literally, now I have two long cracks in my…
Continue reading ➞ Moving Across The Country: Tips To Prepare
Happy Meal Plan Monday, Readers! Ahh, well guys, this is kind of a sad week. It's our last week in California! On Saturday we leave for North Carolina. So, this Meal Plan will probably be the last once until we get settled into a new routine in NC! Once we get a house, and our…
Week six. Six weeks ago I vowed that I would write about my journey with anxiety and depression and how I was healing from it. Now here we are, six weeks later. Overall the last four or five months have been kind of brutal for me. I was a roller coaster of emotions for awhile…
Continue reading ➞ Emotional Healing Week 6: Tips To Help Overcome Anxiety
Moving isn’t the part that sucks. Uh, you guys. Here’s how I’m really feeling. I don’t want to move, for multiple reasons. We LOVE California. We love the weather, the people, our neighbors, how much stuff there is to do, how dog friendly it is, everything. However, physically moving isn’t the part that sucks. STARTING…
Week three. I am still, blown away at the amount of people that have been encouraged by these posts. How am I doing? Good! A little better each day. The anxious brain has kind of been sitting at the back of my mind for a few months. I wake up and think, “Is today going…
Hey guys! I am back to report on week two of overcoming anxiety and depression. And I have got to say, I am feeling so much better (knock on wood). The last five weeks I have been focusing on not having anxiety at all. Trying to get rid of it or ignore it, breathe through…
Last week, in the heat of California, literally, Brendan and I laid in bed and couldn't fall asleep And first of all, who ever told me that is doesn't get "too hot" in California is a LIAR. And has also not lived without AC. Because it is HOT and we are uncomfortable. But on the…
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