I swear motherhood is always pulling out these constant surprises. You think you really nailed something being a mom and then bam. You get your kid potty trained and they start having accidents. You sleep train your babes and then all the sudden they are waking up at night. Oh your kids aren’t sick finally… next morning they wake up with a runny nose. You finally found healthy snacks they will eat, and then they don’t like it. Their attitudes change over night, and something that worked yesterday just doesn’t always keep working.

I swear there have been several times in motherhood where I am thinking to myself “how the heck did I raise such a patient, kind, and loving little human”, but as I’m sure you can image there have been bipolar opposite thoughts as well. Our recent move brought up a lot of those negative confused thoughts.

Dekker has always been my little sweetheart that is very emotional. I knew the move would be hard on him, but we had done it so often I knew it would be okay. After a couple weeks of moving and him confused I was seeing this side I honestly had never seen before. There is a difference than your kids whining and saying no to you, as oppose to them blatantly saying a hard NO. I remember the first time I asked him to do something in the transition of our move, and he blatantly said no. I was sooo caught off guard because he didn’t ever really do that. Obviously my kid has said no, thrown fits, and has had an attitude but it was unlike anything I had seen from him ever. He started to do this behavior a lot, and I was so worried. Was this just the fabulous four stage he was in.. as my mom called it with me “the fucking fours”?! Was he seeing this behavior somewhere we had been since moving and thought it was okay?! I was so lost. I caught myself being so worried that I was doing something wrong and that I was failing, and that all these moves were finally catching up to him.

Being a mom is HARD. There are so many moments where we are exhausted, confused, and just drained and even sometimes not knowing which direction to go in. These moments definitely don’t last forever, but every mom has been there and felt defeated. I kept doing things like we previously had, and tried my best to make time for just him and I. Overnight this kid was totally his normal self after adjusting to our new home. I guess motherhood just had to pull my strings a little bit and test me and it sure did. I’m happy my sweet and joyful little boy is loving his new home so much, and we were able to navigate this together.

These moments in motherhood come in all different forms as your kids get older. You definitely don’t stand alone in the feeling of being defeated, exhausted, or overwhelmed.

Hi guys! so glad the weekend is here! There are some good sales going on right now, and we are all gearing up for some warmer weather coming up. I love getting some new items this time of year for summer and spring.

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Happy Friday or Saturday if you are already asleep!

Today flew by me.. not enough hours in the day sometimes haha. Tomorrow we hopefully have a Tball game, but it has been so rainy and continues into tomorrow morning so I am sure it will be to wet to play. Other than that I am going to spend my weekend unpacking, organizing, and figuring out where to put some decor. I am so happy to be in our new places and be in here more. I have some fun blog post planned soon and I cant wait to share. Enjoy your weekends!

Happy Friday Friends!!

It is finally moving weekend for us!! SO SO excited. Also so excited for Dekker’s opening day of t ball… nothing cuter than that boy in some cute baseball clothes. He most excited about his “spikey shoes” haha. Hopefully we have a smooth move, and cant wait to share our new home with you guys as we decorate and make it our own.

Three years and nine months ago when I was a new mom to Dekker Drew we moved away from family to travel with Cody while he went through his apprenticeship. We moved into a trailer and made it our home to make it easier for moving from job to job. We have moved all over Southern and Northern CA during this. After almost three and a half years in our trailer we decided to do short term rentals. We moved a total of 10 times during all of this. Some of these moves were very short, but still moving is a lot of work.

We always talked about hopefully moving home one day, or near their but that always felt like a very long distance away. We wanted to be by family, but because we grew up in a small town we expected for this to happen at the very soonest whenever my husband was done with his apprenticeship.

Being away meant we were moving to towns we knew absolutely no one. I had two boys now and had to do pretty much do everything with them. Along the way we did meet great friends, but still nothing like living next to people you have known forever, cousins, parents, etc. We pushed through and definitely made the best out of every place we lived, and honestly I enjoyed it but I knew there would be a really great outcome to this. I knew some day our story would include living by family and friends.

Now only a month shy of him being done, and we are HOME. I honestly am still shocked that we were placed here, and that we get to stay here for really as long as we would like. We signed a year lease (which is big for us!), and we will be doing our 11th and final move during this apprenticeship to our hometown. There is nothing like having your people near you.

Happy Friday friends!! So excited it is finally spring although we are about to get a lot of rain, but it means we are that much closer to some sunshine! This weekend we are going to be mostly rained in and Sunday I am going to a baby shower. Next weekend is going to be our big move into our new place and I can hardly wait. Enjoy some good sales today!! xo

I hope everyone is enjoying their Friday. The sunshine is finally out!!! Don’t get me wrong it’s still freezing, but this sun feels so good. It is our first weekend back in our hometown, and I am hopefully getting over being sick so just going to lay low. xo

Happy Friday you guys!

We are still in a lot of stress over here trying to find somewhere to live where we are moving next month. The boys and I are still in our place, but Cody had to start work already. Cody works this weekend so the boys and are just doing a little packing and cleaning this weekend. We might go see the new How to train your dragon movie, but we will see if I get the courage to take both of them haha. I hope you all have a great weekend!!!xo

Hey guys! This week flew by for me and there was definitely not enough hours in each day. Still and forever playing catch up it feels like. We shared some pretty exciting news over on instagram today, so don’t forget to head over there! This weekend we don’t have a lot going on, besides my mom might come to town and Cody works.  I hope everyone has a good weekend!! xo