We Are The Weddles

It's only a matter of time until we realize what is important to us. What we need and why. It's a season of trial and error, and learning and exploring, and wishing and regretting, all to get to where we know what we want and need. Doesn't that sound nice? Knowing what we want and the steps taken to get it. Well, as nice as it sounds, most of us know that that's not typically the case. I've been in a season of realization lately, and I wanted to share a few of my thoughts with all of you. I've been realizing that there are unchangeable things about life. You may be saying, well, shouldn't you have already known that? Why yes, I KNEW that. But now, I ACCEPT it. I accept that there will always be things that are hard, unchangeable, or even things I can't stand. But, not everything in this world can be fixed or switched. Sure, most things can and should if it betters yourself. It's the times when things can't get fixed or switched that you enter a...

A grateful heart precedes a joyful heart. One of my favorite hashtags to share is #blessed, and the reason for that is that I truly feel that in my heart. I feel like no matter what happens, I've got my heart in the right place to really feel and appreciate all the blessings that God has graciously given me. This hasn't been the case for my entire life, by any means. In fact, growing up and my first young adult years I lived with an ungrateful heart and that is stressful. It almost takes extra work to be Ungrateful towards situations. But, as I've grown, I've learned that in every situation God is working. His hands are on every stitch of our lives. He's hand selected every twist and curve we come to on our journey. That means something. It's incredible to think that He cares about us so much to have our lives planned out in advance. It's comforting to know that, and it makes you realize how grateful you should be knowing that. Grateful for everything. I...

This past week has been an emotional roller coaster, to say the least. But there's one thing that has stuck out with every up and down. There's one thing I can't get out of my head. A big part of Faith is trusting that God will open and close doors for us. We feel lead to certain things, we feel empowered by different things, we feel pulled in multiple directions and just overall certainty about specific things. But our Faith steps into play when we feel sure that God has placed us where He wants us. When we're positive that God has opened up a door, an opportunity, for us to flourish and do His work there. This can be a tricky subject, because there are times we pray and pray and hope for our own interests to come to fruition, only to be torn when it doesn't happen. When we reach out so much time and effort into trying to obtain worldly things, such as homes, cars, jobs, and material objects. We can lose sight of where God is trying to use us. We can even get MAD a...

2019! It's a New Year. We all get 365 days to make the most out of this calendar year. It's hard to imagine how fast it goes by, but it's so true that it does. We've got to make the most out of each and every second of our days to really "make it count". I know personally, time didn't start flying by until I had kids. But now every time I look up, one of the 4 is having a Birthday and another calendar year has slipped past us. The years are filled with holidays, to-do's, birthday's, vacations, and by the time you fit in work and school to the mix, that's your year. So making the most out of each day is important, especially if so many will be gone before you even know it. But what does that mean? Making the most out of it? Well, each person's idea of it is different. But as a wife and mom, for me it means being present. It means building in time for the kids to be kids and enjoy themselves, and to build in time as a couple with my husba...

3 days. Christmas is in THREE days. Seriously, where does the time go?! In just a few short days we'll all be ringing in 2019! And then will start all of the New Year's resolutions and goals. But for now, we all run around finishing and preparing for Christmas. It's insane how many things we all can get done this time of year, especially if you have little ones. It seems like everyday you look up there is something else that needs to be done, gifts to be bought, Santa to be seen, travel plans to be made, school parties to prepare for, school Christmas programs to attend, and SO much more. But then you look up, and everyone is home and out of school for Christmas break...gifts are wrapped, plans are made, and groceries are bought. It seems as though then, finally then, can you look around and enjoy how much you've done and how beautiful it all really is this time of year. It's times of reflections like this, maybe it's the nearing of the year, or me mentally ...

Well friends, tomorrow is the day. It is the day I've dreaded since the end of May. It's the day that has caused countless hours of mom anxiety, and that has kept me busy for unending hours..tomorrow school starts! It's crazy to think that when we wake up in the morning Destiny will be heading off to Kindergarten. 😭 Our girl is growing up! On top of my major momma bear worries about sending her off to Elementary school for the first time, our oldest Scot is starting 4th grade, and my full load for this college semester starts up tomorrow too. Ben and Jonas lucked out and both get another week before PreK and Mother's Day Out starts up for them (the joys of being little)! I've done everything possible to make this the most fun, exciting, and love filled summer that my babies have ever had..at least until next summer rolls around, because if I'm being totally honest I'm already looking forward to Winter break, Spring break, Summer, hell even President's...