Meadows and Reeds: winter style

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Peace

Nothing like Christmas break to finally get a breather. Minus the freezing temperatures that is. That just leaves time for Christmas movies and being cozy.

Matthew 11:28

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

Once the weather changes I live in this jacket! It's been my favorite since I bought over a year ago! If you can envision wearing a blanket out in public that is socially acceptable. That's what you get with this jacket. Can't beat the neutral color because it can be paired with literally anything.

I added this band tee, mini skirt, cabbie hat and over the knee boots.

Outta my head

Seeing how Colorado decided to dump a truck load of snow on us twice this week. I decided to get this last outfit post up on the blog. Hope and pray for warmer weather so we can start doing some spring outfits.

I have no idea what day it is at this point or what month it is. It's constantly the same thing everyday. I'm not enjoying remote learning. It's quite the challenge. I give all the props to the parents who have multiple children doing this. I got one and I'm pulling my hair out. Even bigger props to the teachers who deal with everyones' kids at the same time for months on end. But I'm pretty sure the kids are on the best behavior for strangers. They leave the "good" stuff for us parents.

It's got me really thinking about getting a tutor. Buying teachers gifts well in advance for the end of the year. It's going to be a whole thing. I appreciate them so much.

You know who else is being appreciated during this time? Stay at home moms. While husbands/dads had kind of an idea of what we dealt with on a daily basis. They get to live it full time now day in and day out. My hubby said and I quote " I never said it wasn't hard. But yes it's a lot harder than I thought."

All of us stay at home moms are cheering and rejoicing worldwide. We finally get the validation, the appreciation we've been wanting for years. A new day has dawned. Amen..Hallelujah!

I hope all you moms are hanging in there. I hope all you dads are hanging in there. I hope all you teachers, medical professionals are hanging in there. It's been such a bizarre time. Let me tell you a lot of feelings have come out. Being stuck in a house forces you to deal with said feelings.

Pray for me!

I hope you are all surviving.. Another week down.

Friday Feels

Well, we just got word over here that we are officially not going back to school for the rest of the year. There are a few things that I didn't do beforehand that I'm happy with my decision now.

One: I'm glad I didn't sign little man up for preschool. I knew it was only going to be for a few months anyway and I didn't want to waste the money. We have already been homeschooling him since February. I'm thankful for that.

Two: I'm glad I didn't sign up for a ton of extra curricular activities it would've been another waste of money.

Three: I'm glad we moved when we did. I couldn't imagine having to do that now. Or not being able to say goodbye to our friends before leaving. I know for some military families that is the case and it's so hard.

Home schooling hasn't been all that bad so far. I think it's a lot easier when someone else has put together the curriculum for little miss. Which makes me just a glorified study hall monitor. It takes me back to my home school/charter days. I'm not even sure how I made it through jr high and high school.

On a side note I am putting together a blog post of all the ways we are getting through this quarantine life. Here's to hoping it ends sooner rather than later. This is nuts!

If the world was ending...

What a bizarre time we are living in now. There's been some days this last week that we've driven around just to take a ride. It's like living in a ghost town in some places.
I want to go to the movies. I want to go bowling. I want to go to Target for crying out loud.

Out of boredom we even signed up for Doordash just to make some extra money. I mean why not right? We aren't doing anything else might as well make some extra money.

If you read my old post over the summer "Freedom"

you will see that we have been following the Dave Ramsey program. We were doing it based off of the baby steps that can be found on Pinterest and listening to his podcast. Well, thankfully Dave Ramsey is now offering Financial Peace University as a two week FREE trial on his website. We've been binge watching all of the videos. It's gotten us fired up for the future. It's got great information on how to avoid making stupid financial decisions. Which we have in the past for sure.

I know this might sound boring to some people or hard to do. But I've heard so many stories of people paying off thousands of dollars in debt. Paying off their houses in just a matter of years!

That's insane to me! Even single parents are doing it. We weren't in that bad of a hole thankfully. But we've managed to get through the first 4 Baby Steps in 8 months.

It's worth it! You're stuck at home anyway! Might as well make a plan for the future once this craziness is over and we can go back to normal.

Fashion Friday

We are a little over 3 weeks out from my first EP release ever! I've been so preoccupied planning my release party and getting everything ready for the release. I get so super focused on things that I can't see anything else. I''m trying so hard to not get distracted or procrastinate either. Those are definitely some of my flaws. Which can be hard while being a stay at home mom! I can't wait for it all to be happening thought. I'm so close to exploding from all the excitement! I really appreciate all of you guys keeping up and supporting my dreams!