Olivia Eileen

Someone shared this article on the wonderful world of Facebook the other day and I really think it made some valuable points on, well, how we choose to spend our time in this thing called life. However, being a busy mama of three little people the FIFTY ways the author lists to "be happier and healthier" seems rather daunting to say the least.   So, after reading through the article in its fullness I went back through and marked off the ones that resonated with me. And I discovered that about 1/3 of the items on the list seemed doable to attain too in my current season of life. Call it almost being 30 or the *weight* of having children I want to leave a legacy for, but if you haven't read the article you should. In the meantime here are MY 15 takeaways and thoughts on the authors points... Reduce caffeine--> Okay, the author actually says eliminate . um yeah, right, I am a MOM. Now, I don't think caffeine is bad. I really love espresso an

Y'all we made it.  We packed up our roots of 6 years.  We moved 700 miles.  We unpacked.  We organized.  We re-organized.  We re-re-organized. (All before Christmas. Yeah, moving at the holidays....................ummmm, please never again!) I've wanted to write this post many times, but it has honestly been such a whirlwind and time has evaded me to actually sit down and write. But my itching to write has kept at me so much that I even noticed AND applied to volunteer-blog for a local mommy blog...and they accepted my little humble application! Woot Woot! I chat with those ladies on Tuesday, so we'll see what that's all gonna be about soon. My biggest hope is that it helps give me an excuse to keep at my writing. I know I've got a little knack for it, but mommy-hood of the little years is demanding ! In the meantime let me catch you up on my reality of PCS'ing. PCS stands for PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION. haha. yeah. permane

BASIC ACADEMIC GOALS: 2016-2017  

I was home schooled through 8th grade. But I never once purposed in my heart that I would actually be a homeschooling mama myself. (so I'll put it out there right now, do YOU think I'm unsocialized and weird??? ;) ) Then, in simplest terms: enter stage left our own children AND enter stage right the drastic changes to our school systems........I am homeschooling ;)