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I Needed To Find My Purpose

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I've been on a mission lately to find my purpose. To find my joy . To find my passion . I was out of my routine.    I was in a funk. I was getting grumpy and I was getting irritated with my family. I was feeling lost in my day. I made a shift. What I was doing wasn't working and I knew I needed to think outside of the box. I started working out form home because my gym was closed.  I choose to join a community that I thought would be a bunch of people working out together and that would be it.  It ended up being the energy, encouragement and vibe that I never knew existed or that I was missing out on!!! Now I can not imagine my life without it and even the thought of going back to what I was doing before makes me so sad. I wanted more of this!!!  I decided to sign up as a coach to experience the mentorship and community and help OTHER women feel as good as I am feeling!!!  To help them experience this too, because it's not just for me.  It's for ANYONE who is looking fo
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Heaven's Best Has Arrived

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 October 22, 2020 the day of devastation for our family.   The day Heaven gained the sweetest angel I ever did know.  Troy.  Our precious sweet Troy Boy went to be with Mom .  My brother-in-law was born with down's syndrome and then later in his toddler age was diagnosed with autism.   The love we have for him is like no other.  The world was so much brighter with Troy in it.  Troy was given to us here on earth to teach us.  We learned so much from him.  I will forever be grateful to Troy for teaching our kids about life.   Here's the thing, most people do not know how to act or treat others that are "different" from them.  A lot of people just stare.  Or, they say rude things about those with disabilities.  You know what?  God made each and every single one of us to be different.  The world would be a boring place if we were all the same , what kind of world would that be to live in?    Those special humans are given to us to teach us empathy, compassion, and joy in
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ORC: Week One - Built-Ins & Overthinking

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 Well, here we are at week one of the One Room Challenge and I have officially wasted a full week overthinking my base cabinets.   I was so excited.  Ordered them online from The Home Depot, got curbside pick up.  Got them home and placed them in their new spots and instant buyers remorse.   What had I done?   I started sending pics to those closest to me and asking their opinions.  The icing on the cake was when the hubby got home and immediately said, "Holy smokes those things are HUGE!" I went on Instagram Stories and asked for your opinions, which was 50/50, so that didn't help at all....hahaha    I  then started using painters tape to fuel my vision.  I am such a visual person that I really need to see that what was currently in my home was not too large, cumbersome, bulky, and literally ruining my vision for built-ins.    I asked friends to check it out when they stopped by.  Friends!!!  It was still 50/50 with everyone's opinions!!!  At the end of the day I ne
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One Room Challenge: Starting Week

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 I did it!  I can't believe I signed up for the One Room Challenge !!!   Holy smokes!  This is going to push me to get, the one project I have been wanting to do for a while, done.   The best part?  It'll be done before Thanksgiving!!! Welcome to our living room/entry way.  This is one of the first rooms you see when you are welcomed into our home.  I have been stumped by this room for a long while now and I finally feel like I have a solution that makes complete sense.  I have 6 weeks to complete this list of items.  I'm sure that as I go along I will think of new things to add to my to do list.  Isn't that the way it always works out?  You get started and then its a domino effect and spirals into a much larger project.  Who's with me on that?  Here is a started to do list that I currently am thinking of that needs to be done, not necessarily in this order.   I am a very transparent person, so this is it.  This is my room without any staging.  This is real life peo
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Making A Comeback

Guess who's back, back again....Katie's back, tell your friends, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back......(please tell me you sung that in the tune of Slim Shady) It's been a hot minute since I've jumped on this ol' platform and shared a little about our lives.   I can go with the whole "life has been so crazy busy" which isn't a lie, but who's life isn't crazy busy?!  Right?  We all have our own kind of crazy busy happening in our lives. Let me get you caught up over here with both life and this little home of ours. Kids are....big.  They've grown a ton.  We have two that have officially graduated from high school now.   One has gone on to start her college career at a local community college in the dental field.  Our oldest is working full time and thinking about heading back to school to work on furthering his education in the field that he's desired for a while and his employer is offering to help with
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Family Funday Sunday: Camping Style

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Hey Guys!!!  I know it's, only been nearly a month, since our camping trip but I still have to tell you all about it, because it was wonderful!!  It's so hard coordinating weekends and family fun-days when you have 2 kids working.   Luckily those two kids, actually work for the same company.   They were both able to get the weekend off and we were finally able to go CAMPING and DIRT BIKE RIDING!!!  You guys, this is something we haven't done in, what feels like, forever.  Two years to be exact.  So we left Friday morning (kids didn't have school on Friday) and we headed over to our favorite part of Oregon.  East.  When we got there, we were shocked.  There was nobody there.  It was like that all weekend.  I couldn't have been more thrilled.  It was exactly what we needed as a family.  Just us.  Alone.  Laughing.  Playing.  Goofing.  Loving each other the way we know how, as a family. Tension has been so high at our house lately.  Please tell me other famili
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Family Funday Sunday: At the Zoo

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Family Funday Sunday! Our lives have been super crazy busy.  The weekdays tend to get out of hand, so on Sunday's we always try to regroup as a family and at the very least, get a family dinner in together.  A family dinner where we all sit down at the table, converse, and share our lives with one another. I know, that sounds ridiculous, since we have all of our kids living at home with us, but these kids are all over the place.   Whether it's scouts, soccer practice, soccer games, work (their jobs - not ours), babysitting, vision therapy, parent/teacher conferences  (at two different schools & for three kids) , or basketball camp.....which, by the way ALL of that did happen last week....we don't always get to eat as a family during the week.    The Mister and I share cooking duties, and the kids know that they will always have a meal ready for them when they get home.  Whether it's before or after their activities, it's there and ready. Lately
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