Why I’m starting a blog….
This is honestly something I have thought about doing for a few years now! However, every time I would consider it, I would convince myself that I didn’t have the time, I didn’t know what I was doing (which truthfully I still don’t!), or that no one would read it! But HERE WE ARE!! I am finally taking the plunge!
I started posting more frequently on Instagram back in 2017. I was in a place in my life where I was struggling and wanted an outlet. I had picked up distance running again and I wanted a place to share my runs and my daily outfits that wasn’t Facebook! (I didn’t figure any of my family or friends cared about how many miles I ran that morning or what outfit I was wearing to work! lol). Truthfully, we were in the midst of trying to figure out what was going on with our youngest son, Noah. Challenges had been going on with him for a few years, and yet we still didn’t have any answers. (I will share more about that journey another day!)
For a while I just shared my running, lifting, and daily #ootd’s. Then slowly, I felt God pushing me to share more of life. The ugly parts. The parts where He was working on me. The parts where I was not okay. The truth was I was struggling. I had dreamed of being a mom for almost my whole life, and now it was literally NOTHING like I had imagined it to be. I felt like I was failing every day, and didn’t have any answers. So I started to share…..
The outcome of sharing was overwhelming. All of a sudden, I was connected with other moms who also felt like they were drowning in motherhood. I started to feel more and more comfortable with sharing the ugly parts of my life. I also began to learn that I needed to allow myself grace. The same grace that was extended to me by God daily, I now needed to extend to myself. It’s absolutely a work in progress, and something I am still working on. He gave me the verse from 2 Corinthians 12:9 which says “But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.”
God also gave me a clear vision that other mommas need to hear this message too, so I have decided to share. I want this platform to be an encouragement to other mommas who also feel overwhelmed sometimes. This is a place where I want to encourage others to extend grace to themselves, and feel cute while they do it :) Putting a cute outfit together makes me feel like I am a better momma and wife. I can’t explain why, but it just does! If I am going to lose my mind…. I might as well look cute while doing it!
Okay that’s enough rambling for today…. And I promise all my blog posts won’t be this long! But this will be a place where I share my heart, what God is teaching me, what I am doing right now as far as workouts/running to help keep my sanity, as well as, share some cute outfits :) Thanks for reading yall!
