Building Healthy Homes

With the new year, I often see many people that want to begin meal prepping and planning, but are stuck at how to get started.  Want to know the secret? You’re probably overthinking it! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩 & 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: ⁣ ⁣  🥩 Pick a protein ⁣ 🥦 Pick a veggie ⁣ 🥑 Pick a healthy fat ⁣ 🍞/🍌 Pick a carb or fruit ⁣ ⁣  Prep one of each and you can mix and match throughout the week. You can do this for breakfast, lunch, dinners, even snacks. ⁣Prep your basics and staples and mix and match throughout the week for the variety you crave. ⁣  𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬. Save this for later...I promise you're going to want to keep it! 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐟𝐮𝐥? 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩 𝐧𝐨𝐰? ⁣

August 21, 2019…it was just another time of crazy happening…this time to fix the 99% blockage in your heart. I was scared.  The odds were stacked against you. It was then that you held me in your arms, and comforted me instead of the other way around. You told me during that embrace that you weren’t scared of the outcome because either way you would be healed on earth or healed and in Heaven. My anxiety was so high and you held me as I cried…you did everything you could to reassure me that there was so much peace in your mind and heart and you showed me what true strength looked like.  We took this picture, because I was afraid it would be the last time I would get to see you. Through my tears you comforted me, as any mother would, but that day, you showed me what compassion felt like. You fought so hard those next few days - especially the next, when you coded from losing so much blood...you fought so hard the following 6 months for everything to be the best you could make it.  Little

Happy 69th birthday mama! It’s been a while since I’ve written here on this blog, and today, I want to start back over. Mainly for part of my healing process, but today, I’m going to write directly to you, rather than the people reading this.  I started this blog, called Mama’s Update, back in 2012 when you went into the hospital with pneumonia as a way of keeping people up to date on your journey. One thing I remember once you were able to sit and read them is all of the concern on your face of how we were all feeling and rallying around you in your time of need. You didn’t know it at the time, but God was moving through my heart more than ever then. I was so scared. Scared of losing you, scared of my kids losing their Nana…and how in the world were we going to help dad? In the time between 2012/2013 and early 2020…you never stopped showing us how to love one another. You always had the magnetic powers of keeping us all together. Now, 17 months later, I look back over that time and ca

I don’t do resolutions, but I usually pray about finding a word for the year. In 2017, my word was restore. I honestly didn’t know why The Lord put that word out there for me, but I held onto it.  In January, I was blessed to be a part of restoring a relationship between my mom and her sister. I didn’t do any of the hard work for it...honestly, it fell into place by posting here on FB about a surgery my mom was having. God managed that whole thing.  In March, I was introduced to the amazingness of the Aroma Freedom Technique using YL essential oils. It’s been an amazing journey to be able to free the mental bondage I’ve put my brain through over my entire life of burdens and trials that weren’t even in my control. If you’re interested in learning more about this, let me know and I’ll send you info! It can be done without oils, but it makes the process easier. Mental restoration at its finest...although, I’m still not perfect, but I now know how to work through things better and embrace

To the lady that was in front of me in the Chick-fil-a drive thru... As far as I know, you don't know me. You didn't know that it took me over 40 minutes to decide that going to grab a quick lunch instead of leftovers (again) wasn't going to make me a bad wife or mommy. You didn't know that I took out my calculator to see if I could even afford a $10 gluten free lunch option. You didn't know that it was going to be the last $10 on the gift card we received from my sister for Christmas. You didn't know that I made the decision this past year to quit my full time career to be a stay at home mom because my 3 children really needed more of their mommy. You didn't know that I spent most of my morning praying for a way to get through the financial mess we've created for ourselves over the past 12 years of marriage. You didn't know that I'm super worried about my mom, who has overcome so many medical complications, once again faces another surgery in a