Do you ever have those seasons where you are going and going and then you just want to stop and do nothing? I feel like I am there and I need to pull myself out of it. We are moving. I am so thankful to have a contract on this house and one on a new house. After the emotional tug of preparing the house to sell, getting contracts and losing them, having my husband travel, and sick kids...I just want to stop and breath for a bit. Breathing room to me is always being outside or Continue Reading
Falling Into My Hole
For a week, I have been down. When I say down, I mean like sad, weepy, no patience with my sweet kids, tired, cranky (borderline bitchy), and on the verge of a depressed outlook on life. It has been a long week. I shared at the beginning of the year that my word for the year is CHANGE. I've also hinted to big things coming for us as a family. Everything we've been thinking and moving towards was on track and could not be more exciting. That is until this past week. We had a huge set back. Continue Reading
Networking {and links to a special giveaway!}
What do you think of when you hear the word networking? Do you view it with a positive or negative connotation? I think a year ago I would have thought through the term networking as a manipulation or way to get your needs or desires met. To me, it was a way you put yourself out there to get what you want, whether the remarks and communication were genuine or not did not matter. I guess I would have said networking had a distasteful tone to me. That has changed. The transition from Continue Reading
Hair bows for “Our Hearts. Our Love.”
I had intentions of starting my Friday Project Spotlight back up yesterday, but you see the day got away from me. What I wanted to share with you are some hair bows I made for a sweet friend. My friend Kendra just had a beautiful baby girl about three weeks ago. Kendra already had one sweet little girl, Isla, and she waited to find out the sex of this baby at birth. She had Gracie while I was on the road, and I have been itching to make these cute girls some hair bows since she was Continue Reading
A piece of my quilt for YOU!
***This giveaway is now closed. Stay tuned for more giveaways from Dancing Zebras!!*** Today, I want to say thank you to all my new "bloggy" friends, blog readers, twitter followers, and FB "likes". Thank you!!! I have loved reading your comments, blog hoping, and joining "craft parties"! I'm still learning the lingo, so please forgive me if I called something the wrong thing! I have gotten to read and see some incredible blogs, and it's fueling this little fire in me. There is something Continue Reading