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It’s the Little Things

The days of motherhood where you feel like you cannot come up for air. The days that feel like you are being suffocated. The days that seem never ending. When you are so exhausted but you cannot go to sleep.      Have you had one of those days recently? Don’t worry I have too. Our youngest has become even more attached to the hip now that her older sisters have started school and at times I love it and soak it up, but there are times I just need to breath. I have always wanted a momma’s girl and I definitely have one, but I don’t want to resent it; I want to embrace it but the struggle is real. I wish I would have known back when I first became a mom what all it takes to be a mom. I never knew how much self sacrifice it takes, how many tears I would cry from shear frustration, how suffocating it can truly feel at times. How everyday you give it all you’ve got and still feel like its not enough. I honestly always feel like there is something more I could…

Stillness

  Being still is not something that people like to do most days. We are always striving for something more, always running on a constant hamster wheel never satisfied with where we are. You see someone you know that is more successful than you and instantly feel the need to be doing more. You automatically feel unsuccessful because you are comparing your successes to someone else’s.  It is so hard sometimes to see other people succeeding and going places in life when you feel like you are just sitting still. Looking at someone else’s version of their happiness is not going to get you to your happiness. If you are constantly living through peoples highlight reels on Instagram or Facebook and think that’s how their life always is, your life will never be good enough. If I cannot have all the things in life that I want right now, why does it seem like they can? What makes them more successful than you? What you find successful and worthy may not be what God sees what is right for you. What if God’s intention is for you to be still? What if…