Monday, March 1, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Weekend Vibes: Hanging with The Horses & My Fav Songs Lately
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
November 2020: Getting Back to Normal
Rereading the title and thinking....Not really sure what normal is anymore but November is when Ty came back and we spent the month trying to spend as much time together as possible. We tried to find a rhythm and flow again. It came pretty easily. These kids are growing so FAST. It's a bittersweet thing that I struggle to watch. I love to see them do their firsts and at the same time, I mourn that it's the last time they will do each thing. I guess I don't have much of a choice in the matter but to count it as a blessing to watch them grow.
Thanksgiving was spent by ourselves this year. It was simple and quiet. Well, as quiet as it can get with 3 kids and 2 dogs in the house. Ha. We made some cocktails and lounged around. We did get dressed for Thanksgiving Dinner but after that, it was right back in pj's. There were no plans and it was truly perfect. After having Ty gone so long, it felt like a party just to have him back!
I found myself super excited to decorate for the holidays and I put our trees up in the beginning of November. I just love the feeling of the holidays. I like to make it last as long as possible. So all of the decor came down and we had fun decorating the trees and kid's rooms. I let the kids each decorate a tree in their rooms so that they don't touch mine in the living room. Ha ha. November was another good month of spending a lot of time together. Even though we were busy, at least we were together. I love this house full of crazies. The madness that happens is often overwhelming but I wouldn't want it any other way!
Saturday, February 13, 2021
October was a GOOD Month.
October was one of the better months of 2020!! It was the month that we found out Ty was coming back!!!! For good. Eeeek!!! And we had a pretty rad Halloween. I got a lot of fun decorating in and I just felt like things were aligning well. I felt that it would be great to get into the Halloween spirit since the kids didn't have a whole lot to look forward to this year. I have wanted to be The Addams Family for Halloween for over 4 years now. This year, the kids were finally into it. We had the best time. Our neighborhood did trick or treating "social distance" style and it was a blast! They made contraptions to bring snacks to kids and tunnels for candy to shoot down to them. We left out candy in baggies for kids and even some drinks for the adults. It was a month that goes down in the books as "Good Times". We prepped for Ty to come back home and it felt like everything was aligning well. Lots of people asked about my bats that I used inside and spiders that we put out on the front of the house. They were both from Amazon and I linked them HERE and HERE.
It's Been Awhile...
It's been awhile since I've said some words here...
Yes. Ty is back for good! For those who don't know, Ty works in specialized construction management (building things like semi-conductor plants and such). He traveled now and then for work. This was okay pre-pandemic as it brought us to new places such as NY and TX. But once we planted roots in TX and began our passion project of opening a gym, traveling couldn't happen as often. He ended up having to go to DC in the beginning of July and I basically became a single parent for 6 months. Normally, if he were to leave, we would go with him, but with the gym just starting and the kids in school, I had to make the decision to stay. It was a really difficult time juggling it all as I had an infant, 2 kids virtual learning and I was going back to work full time while trying to launch the gym. It was chaos. That is an understatement. My mom said to me, "Lauren, you are one of the strongest women I know." And that sentence brought me through a lot of it. Life just keeps on going, doesn't it? After 6 months of pure survival mode, I told Ty that something had to give because if not, I was going to have to give something up. I didn't want to continue to survive, I wanted to enjoy life again. Enjoy my kids and baby.