- Easter
- Happy baby goats!
- Trip to Bicknell with Caleb
- J Hill and fatal car accident
- Death of Mark Brinkerhoff
March 6th- This little man is very loved around here. Every single feeding is a team sport. So many little helping hands!! #cuteCaleb #familyof5
April 6th- This little boy is 2 weeks old today- and still 1 week out from his original due date on April15th! My OBGYN said at the 1 week check up- "apparently your gestation period is only 37 weeks. We'll remember that next time. " 😂😁
How has it already been two weeks?? The days melt into each other and I barely leave the couch or get fully dressed. I always forget how much work an infant is! How can you forget? I don't know. But I forget how much time it takes to nurse, and pump, and nurse, and pump, and hold and soothe and rock and nurse and pump and how you don't leave the couch all day long and you don't get anything done because it all takes so long! And the kids run a muck all day.
But really I can't complain at all because we have received SO much service and help. Meals almost every night, play dates to get my kids out so me and nursing isn't the main attraction, young women who come over to play with the kids in our home so I can rest. Every day we receive some act of service and I am SO grateful. Plus Caleb has started sleeping almost through the night- waking up once to feed usually- for which I am SO grateful.
We are so grateful this little guy is here safe and sound and he brings a sweet peace into our home. Looking forward to discovering his sweet personality. #cuteCaleb
Happy General Conference Weekend my friends!
Michael also lost a cousin yesterday, in the middle of his life, totally unexpected.
This is why Easter is personal. Because we don't know when it will all end. And far too often it ends sooner than we expect. But we know it WILL end. And then what? How do you make sense of it all?
I still don't make sense of it all. But what I do know is they still live. It's not over. We just can't see them any more.
Because of Christ and His resurrection, I KNOW they still live and I will see them again. My mom, my grandparents, cousins, friends gone too soon, strangers whose heads we cradle in a car on the highway. Death will always come but because of Christ, so will life.
April 15th- It's been 18 months. It's become a significant marker in my life and I think about it all the time. What happens in 18 months?
I was pregnant for half of that time.
We moved in that time.
We went from a family of 4 to a family of 5 in that time.
We moved in that time.
We went from a family of 4 to a family of 5 in that time.
But hands down, the most significant thing that has happened in the last 18 months is the improvement in health and finances I have experienced. It's been nothing short of a miracle. A long prayed for answer to prayer.
I was suffering with so many chronic health issues, but was resigned that this was just what it was like to "get old". Constantly tired, poor sleep, allergies, irregular heart beat, Type 2 diabetes, stomach aches and pains, joint pain, digestive problems, ulcers, depression/anxiety, infertility, aching feet, steadily gaining weight each year despite diet and exercise....the list goes on. I thought the hallmark of aging was getting sick and fat. It seemed to happen to everyone around me so I was simply resigned to it.
Slowly, over the last 18 months every.single.one of these issues has been reversed. That is not just good luck. That is a health miracle. Nothing short of Christ healing the blind. I have experienced a health miracle.
I am so sad when people see the stories I post, decide to try Plexus, and then quit after 1 month. There's no such thing as a quick fix with health. Although compared to 38 years of life, 18 months is a short time for MY body to heal. Generally, 95% of people see very significant health improvements in 90 days, and most even sooner, but once your body has the tools it needs to heal, it takes time. The health miracle I've witnessed in my body, and in the lives of my family and friends has been absolutely life changing in every way.
Equal to the health miracle is the financial freedom we've found. I don't normally talk about this but I feel like I need to share. I didn't start Plexus to start a business. I actually really despised that it was an MLM. But when I started seeing such dramatic changes, I couldn't help but talk about it. And people wanted to try. And they saw great things too! That was pay enough but then I kept getting these notifications that I had a payment from Plexus. I had no idea what that meant! But when those first few hundred dollars came in, that changed everything for us.
When I started Plexus I literally did not have a penny to spare. I was selling tomatoes that took 4 months to grow for $1/pound at a weekly farmers market to maybe make an extra $20 bucks to buy some groceries and make it to payday. There was no budge room in the budget and barely enough for necessities. There was never money for clothes of kids stuff or babysitters or date nights. Bills, mortgage, food and gas- tat was it. And there was always more month at the end of the money. That meant when our son needed caps for his teeth, or the car needed new tires, or there was an emergency, the credit card was the only option. Our debt kept piling up and there was never any extra to pay it off- especially the medical expenses.
But now. Now we can breathe. Last month we paid for the birth of our son with cash. Today I finally paid off the line of credit that paid for our son's dental work a year ago. This month I paid off the hospital for our unexpected ER visit last fall. The credit card is at a $0 balance. I put $1000 in savings- probably the first time that account has increased in 5 years. I am so grateful. I know this is an answer to prayer, no less significant than the health changes. This is what financial freedom looks like to me. Having room to get ahead and not just more behind every month.
It's not a get rich quick scheme. Like the supplements, it takes consistency and time. But helping your friends and family find health and financial freedom- I can't think of anything much more satisfying.
There's room for you here too if you want it- whether for health or finances. There's so much good here. So much support and self improvement. All on your terms. You dictate the terms- both of your health and finances. You can go fast or slow. Both routes work! But I prefer sooner than later, and I know how to help you be efficient with both health and the business. And we have so much fun doing it! I love having a tribe of women I respect and can turn to for anything, that always push me to do better. They have become family. And the traveling and trips and prizes are pretty great too. (Just won an iPad last month and a free trip to Hawaii).
Put aside your pride and open your mind. It might change everything.
#loveyourguts #healyourguthealyourlife #bloodsugarbalance #inflammation #guthealth #healthandhappiness #financialfreedom
April 25th- Raking leaves and helping with yard work. Swinging the kids. Doing dishes and helping with laundry. This is Zion. This is ministering.
It's hard to ask for help, even when you need it. These people don't wait for an invitation. They just act, with love, and bless my life tremendously. Young women, neighbors, friends. So many people have been helping.
I had no idea what recovery from having your insides taken out and sewn back in would be like. But I've had to admit that I can't do some things. Push a heavy grocery cart. Rake leaves. Vacuum. Lift heavy things. Turns out my guts have feelings, and they are easily hurt! It's lame.
Luckily, I don't have to look far for help. I'm so grateful. Thank you thank you thank you!
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