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Important family updates for the final quarter of 2018! I’ve asked myself these things countless times over the last 4 months... Where have I been? 👣 Where am I headed? What now? So much can change in a year’s time—even in a few months! Think about your own family members, finances, health, career circumstances— life is pretty unpredictable. This time last year Ryan got sick 😷 and developed double pneumonia, which actually uncovered serious heart problems he’s still having to manage with 6 medications. ❤️ 😳🙏🏻 Our health is so precious—so fragile. When you or a loved one’s health is at risk, you look at life through a different lense. 🔭 This time last year my team was breaking records and promoting me to the top 1% of the company. 🙀🙌🏼 Today that same company is no longer in existence as I knew it. 😳 Just 4️⃣months ago they filed for bankruptcy 📉 and left thousands of us wondering...unsure of our business future. 😲(Thankfully for those desiring to continue, a smal...

This blog was written a year ago, but I never published it. I think I was too embarrassed and frustrated to put it out into the world wide web at the time. But now that we own our first home, I can share... If you are currently renting, and you don't have any issues, count yourself blessed!!  If you're dreaming of your own home and being an owner someday, keep praying, keep saving, keep believing--it will happen for you! Captain's Log: 2016. As you may or may not know we are currently renters. When we moved from Key West 3 years ago, we were sharing living space with 4-5 other adults. For those not counting, that was up to 10 of us under 1 roof for a few years.  You can read about those fun times in previous blog posts such as The Nut House . When a job opened up for Ryan in Vero Beach we were all too ready to move. We found this little spot on Craigslist and put the 1st and security deposit over the phone without having seen the inside. We were just feeling so bless...

I really want to post of pic of my cute “It’s Fall Y’all” motif I have going on in my house, but I can’t because there’s nothing cute about the situation at my house. I want to diffuse pumpkin spice in my bamboo diffuser and sit wistfully by the windowsill, sipping my mocha choca latte dadah, but my windowsills are dusty and I don’t have a bamboo diffuser, and I have too much to do. MAN the longing to have  adorable autumn porch decor is REAL y’all! But money is tight, and there are hundreds of hieroglyphic chalk markings, wet chalk chunks, and a bunch of planters with dead crispy leaves soaking up all my creative juices as I stare at them...clearly not motivated enough to clean it up and make it fancy. Come to think of it... maybe I should leave the dead leaves and dust and just call it a head start on Halloween decor. It is so easy to become dissatisfied in our culture because of social media. I can feel content, until I look to the right or left and see I am surrounded by ...