My Happy Ever After

 I put so much pressure on myself to do all the things, I know most of us moms do. This past week God has reminded me that my calling, according to scripture, is to be a Mama and a homemaker, to support my husband. Thinking of my purpose in that light is such a burden lifted. When money is tight as it is now, I feel the burden to help financially. But I have to take a step back and remind myself that by allowing myself to feel that as my responsibility I am taking on both my own and my husbands curse . Now I know for someone who does not believe in the Bible all this may sound completely crazy, but I do believe the Bible is the infallible Word of God.      Truly, nothing brings me peace like spending time with Jesus. What a blessing it is to be able to do that when and where I want! Sometimes it takes a little more effort than other times, like now. But it's similar to meditating, opening up my mind to what God wants to tell me. I'll admit there are many times that I...

 Two things I have been avoiding for quite some time..  I have been a Christian most of my life and I love the Lord more than anything, but sometimes I don't want to read my Bible. I went through a long season where I was only reading each morning to check it off my list. That is NOT a good reason. So I stopped, but my relationship with God suffered. I love Burn Boot Camp, I friggin' hate cardio. I can't breathe then my muscles give out. It's a whole thing. When we couldn't work out in the gym (thanks 2020) and dumbells were more rare than toilet paper, most of our workouts were cardio. But when I didn't have to, I slowly stopped doing them. Finally when I got pregnant it was a great excuse to not do any cardio. So it's been waaay too long since I last did a cardio workout. Genevieve is 5 months old. I've been saying I would start doing the workouts that were a mix of strength and cardio, I have done a few. I wasn't able to make it to the gym last we...