Water, water, water

Are you drinking enough water?? If you watch my stories you know I drink one of these huge yellow cups of water before my coffee or breakfast in the morning and then I have another around lunch. I will have another or if I am working I’ll get a 33 oz water.

I used to never drink water. I would go from coffee to soda to coffee to maybe a water then. 

I was tired ALL THE TIME. I thought it was lack of sleep or some kind of depressive state or doing to too much for to many people. 

Then I started reading about hydration as I was learning to become a healthier version of myself. I learned all that coffee and soda was probably a big part of my problems.

I was dehydrating myself. So I started drinking 8 glasses of water a day and keeping track of my progress in my planner. 

Almost right away I started to feel a difference. As soda and coffee consumption went down my water consumption went up. 

I am drink about 100oz a day and if I get less in I can feel it the next day.

Do you drink enough water?? How much in day??

Do you compare yourself to others?

Well stop!

I know easier said then done.

I know it hard with all the perfectly staged social media posts to think I am the only hot mess express out there.

Guess what your not! I am a proud member of the not mess express club.

I mean how can I not be??? I am a mom of two kids, I am my dads primary caregiver and my husband works fulltime with an on call schedule and overtime. I also work part time outside the home and I am working on growing my health and fitness coaching business. Oh and I am really bad at saying no. So I take on way to many things at once.

I am here to tell you today you may not shine like the sun but tomorrow you can as long as you keep trying!

Some days you will rock at whatever you are trying to achieve(even if it just getting out of bed). Or you can be like me.

The other day I thought I was rocking the mom thing. I had the kids doing workbooks, outside activities, an experiment and a craft. I even had my youngest BBF over for the fun. Then while taking C's friend home I realized the time and had to turn around pick up my son and take both girls with me to T's orthodontist appointment. We arrived I was told we were late and that the appointment was at 2pm not 2:15 like I had wrote down.

So I started out shining like the sun. Then hit a snag and it clouded over for minute. Did I let it stop me? Nope I shook off my feelings being inadequate and moved on with my day. I wasn't going to let that hiccup ruin all the good from the day.


Celebrate those days you shine and celebrate those days you don't because when the sun shines again it will be brighter and sweeter!

Me vs. my fridge

Your probably like why are you taking a picture with your fridge 🤔

It’s not to show off my handle list of kids chores I have going on.

It’s to remind myself that I have to work harder at my relationship with the food inside. 

I need to keep this appliance filled with foods that won’t derail my goals. 

I need to keep it cleaned out so I don’t have to dig for the foods we need to eat.

I have to be better about using leftovers! It will help us have less waste and keep our grocery bills down!

Anyone else have these similar goals?

#healthyeating #fridge #cleaneating #mom #wife #caregiver #sandwichgeneration #savingmoney

Front door refresh

I did a thing!

I have wanted to change the color of front door since forever! I was reluctant because we have the traditional looking white siding, brick and black shutters. I was afraid that maybe a door color wouldn’t work or stick out to much.

But I decided I don’t care. This is our door at our house and we can do what we want!

I had some @mudpaint leftover from another project and grabbed my paint brush and transformed our front door!

I love it!! Next up changing out those brass lights and mailbox to complete the transformation.


#diy #frontdoormakeover #mudpaint #Refresh