Have you ever wondered what moving with the army is really like? Check out our PCS Vlogs! I documented our cross-country PCS as our family of four (plus two dogs and a cat) moved from Fort Wainwright, Alaska to Fort Benning, Georgia. I hope this series shows you what it is like to move with the military as a military family. Be sure to check out the Moving with the Military (Our PCS Experience) playlist for more PCS vlogs 2022! We will be continuing to update our PCS playlist with upcoming moves too (as soon as December 2022). Click here to subscribe to my YouTube channel! Realistic Self-C ..read more

Hi friends, today I’m so excited to share with you all that I’ve learned in three years of motherhood on how to read more books as a busy mom. These realistic tips and tricks to read more books in 2022 are the actual methods I use to help me achieve my reading goals and to read more books. I’m not going to teach you how to be able to read 100 books in a year but these practical reading tips are sure to help you discover ways to read more in 2022. I’ve been a mother for almost three full years now (not counting time spent pregnant with my son lol) and my reading goals have definitely changed d ..read more

Come book shopping with me at Barnes and Noble! This is a cozy bookstore vlog and a reading vlog so cuddle up with a hot beverage and let’s go book shopping together! This video is also an ACOWAR reading vlog! I am currently in the middle of reading the ACOTAR series for the first time and in the reading vlog portion of this video I end up finishing ACOWAR. There is not a book haul in this video because unfortunately, they were out of stock of the books that I wanted. So stay tuned for an ACOTAR book haul in the future! A short story about my ACOTAR reading journey: I first read ACOTAR (the f ..read more

Right now the internet is abuzz with talk of how to set goals and goal setting, plus advice for sticking with your New Year’s Resolutions so I know what you’re expecting when you click on a blog post article about setting goals. If you’re looking for a sugar-coated version of how to work your butt off to meet a million different New Year’s resolutions that you’ve set for yourself then you’re in the wrong place.  My approach to new year goal setting is a bit outside of the norm. I don’t kick off January 1st of a new year by diving headfirst into tackling whatever meaningless goals I’ve set ..read more

As a military spouse, self-care can quickly be pushed aside and forgotten about. A lot of the time military spouses are wearing ten different hats and trying to keep their heads afloat through constantly changing tides. How are we supposed to focus on self-care as military spouses when sometimes we don’t even know when our partners are going to be coming and going?  While researching the topic of self-care, I struggled with a lot of the resources and articles that I was finding. A lot of the self-care advice I was finding just wasn’t applicable to military life.. So I wanted to put togeth ..read more

I asked on Instagram and boy, did you all deliver! I was in panic mode over how I was going to make 4 dozen different types of cookies for a holiday cookie swap (that I’m no longer attending because military life) so I asked you all on Instagram for your favorite cookies recipes! I also got a few family recipes that I left out but seriously, so sweet of you for sharing. I got a request to round up the recipe suggestions so I figured I’d plop them into this super simple post for ya. Let me know if you end up trying any of these recipes! The Hot Cocoa Cookies are definitely calling my name. Jamm ..read more

There are three things that are always on my goal list. Wake up earlier Journal every day Do more creative writing These are the three things that every year, without fail, I tell myself I’m going to do. When the kids were born waking up earlier became a way to survive, to wake up before them in order to get anything on my personal to do list done.  I’ve always wanted to journal more because it’s something my grandmother did every day. She was writing one line a day before that was even a thing. I can distinctly remember large black binders filled with printed out paper filled wit ..read more

  Do you know what the number one thing I could change about my life would be? In all honesty, I would change how inconsistent I’ve been in my almost 30 years of life when it comes to journaling. There are so many times in my life where I wish I had a journal to look back on so I could reflect on those experiences. Take my parents divorce for instance. I can recall some of the thoughts and feelings but I wish I had actually written them down.  My inability to journal consistently is part of the reasoning behind this post. We’re kicking off a 30 day journaling challenge on Septem ..read more

Marlow Maxine was born on May 7th, 2021 at 4:20 in the afternoon. But if you were following me on social media you already know that her birth was somewhat of a whirlwind. If her birth story has anything to say about what her personality is going to be like, Justin and I sure have our hands full. The funniest thing to me about Marlow’s birth story is not that it caught us by surprise, but that I had intended to do a “mini vlog” everyday on TikTok leading up to her birth and only ended up doing 5 posts because of my induction.  Marlow’s birth story really starts on a typical Wednesday afte ..read more

Infertility and Loss – Morgan’s story The word infertility used to never be a part of my vocabulary. If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would have to do fertility treatments to have a biological baby, I wouldn’t have believed you. Infertility was never something that I was taught about in school or knew much about until we started having miscarriages. I remember packing up baby items after we lost our daughter Ivy and just crying out, “Why Me?! Why is this my story??”. All I had ever wanted was to be a mom. It just felt like my body was failing us and failing me. The waiting was cau ..read more