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Inspired By honest honors

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Inspired By honest honors

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SLEEP SAVES 💤 and I’ve found something that will help support you with your mission for better zzzzs. Link in bio for a little PSA from yours truly on why sleep is a big freaking deal. 📷 @moonlitskincare

Sundays in Snohomish - there’s never not pie♥️🥧♥️

This is my gorgeous cousin Becky. We grew up together - two little Dutchy blondes in small towns. Life took us in different directions but we followed each other through the internet of things. After over a decade we finally got to sit down over lunch, face to face. And I adore her just as much as I did then. I love how some things don’t change. Love you Beck.

I mean, spiders 🕷 eww, but the gift that God gave them is miraculous and beautiful. Nature inspires. Look around you. Look at the persistence, the dedication, the desire to make something so unique and almost magical. I’ll take a cue from Charlotte on this one. Her determination is quite the worth the effort. Every fine thread of this web is linked to the next with thoughtfulness and care. Look at what she can create. Think about what YOU can create if you just give yourself some space to let that around you inspire you. God gave you miraculous gifts too. 🕸💫

I am needed. I am wanted. I am meant to be.... me. Depression and anxiety is NOT me. Therefore, I will no longer claim it. Rather, I will talk about it, share it, and fight it along side my fellow humans who have trouble removing it. Link in bio - Maybe you get it. Maybe you don’t. But today, let’s be in agreement that it’s okay to not feel ok. It’s normal to feel abnormal. Help is all around you. #removethestigma #talkaboutit #mentalhealthawareness #letsbehonest

Taking cues from mama @darcycamden - when your kid falls in the mud ridden maze at the pumpkin patch and cannot fathom wiping his hands on his pants, you offer your own. #momsareheroes

I may be in a sour mood tomorrow morning when I wake up and realize I don’t have time to make a special side trek to Kirkland before work to get one of these bad boys. This açaí bowl with pb made me smile inside and out today. I will be dreaming of this tonight. No lie.

#fineillsayit #letmebehonest —- “My-daughter-turned-13-and-I’ve-lost-it” weekend edition —- I way overspent on her birthday extravaganza... children for sale // By day two of extravaganza de Holland I was so exhausted I subjected myself to two, NOT ONE, TWO holiday hallmark-style @netflix movies. Who am I // Holland’s friends told me I looked tired, I told them it was a face mask🤷🏼‍♀️ // By day three we hosted the family and I officially snapped when Holland fibbed about cleaning her bathroom. I believe it went something like “I just spent a shit load of time and money for your birthday to make it special and THIS is the thanks I get?!” and then I told her to take a time out..... not sure she’s the one who needed it 🤦🏼‍♀️ // I gained 5 lbs this weekend *sips wine and devours leftover lasagna and M&Ms, in bed with @queereye episodes I’ve already watched* — g’night #honestchatter

Good morning world. You’ve welcomed in yet another teenager with a spirited taste for life, curious eyes, and hormonal instability. Congrats. Now help us get through this. — Sincerely, an exhausted mom and dad Todd

Cheers to all the moms —- who hold their breath all week long, waiting for the weekend to finally show up. Saying no to the taunting bottle of wine on the bar cart. But eyeing it so hard every time they walk by to clean up a mess in the kitchen or drag their lifeless bodies to the couch. Cheers to the moms who don’t give a **** when frozen pizza is all that’s left in the fridge and the Tupperware plates are the only clean dinnerware. The family is fed. Who cares. Done with this conversation. And to the moms that gave in to the wine on a Thursday night because.... well, just because. And to the moms that choose contentment and ease over perfection and supposed expectation —— remember, you have the choice and control over what you overwhelm your heart and mind with. There is no “must” in how you live your life. Your cool factor isn’t determined by your bank balance, big house, fancy car, Louis bag, or associating yourself with the group of wealthy moms —— Cheers to the moms that share their imperfections in hopes they’ll inspire other moms to keep their heads above water. To the moms that pray for each other versus hoping for their failures. To the moms who scroll their feeds and feel the ache inside when something makes them feel less-than. You can unfollow. It’s that simple. There’s no need to load up your emotional bank with feelings of inadequacy and failure just because someone else is living their life. And in a lot of cases it’s someone you may have never met. It’s all social media facade. Funny ain’t it? Cheers to you women who fight every day to just get from one hour to the next without losing your minds and giving up. Because you’re made with a strength that’s unhuman, a faith that’s unshakable, and a determination that will mow over the critics and the judges. Cheers to you moms for doing the damn thang.