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Putting Family First
Tonight I enjoyed the first Sunday since October with the boys and Blake. You see, when Blake took his latest job to be a restaurant chef, the trade-off was that three nights during the week and all weekend he’d be working. To say it has been tough would be an understatement. But, the life as the wife of a chef is just that – it’s tough. Many times you take a back seat to a career that is long hours, fast-paced and high-stress. Nine years ago when we met, Blake worked in a kitchen, and so I knew what I signed up for when we started dating, when we got…
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What five years of marriage have taught me
Five years ago, it was a cool fall day in Georgia and I married the love of my life. Like many others, my marriage is not perfect – but I don’t expect it to be. It ebbs and flows but I am lucky that there are more good days than bad. I’m lucky to be in a healthy (again, not perfect) marriage where we respect each other (most of the time), love each other and most days, really like each other. This five-year milestone has got me thinking about all I’ve learned about love and marriage along the way; advice and perspectives that have made us work, and that if…
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Love These Guys
Do you ever have a night where your kids just exhaust you? Like, completely wipe you out? They push every button, get on your last nerve… get you plotting a 30 minute earlier bedtime? Yeah, that was tonight. Blake has been working late every night this week, so I’ve been doing this thing solo. While it has surprisingly been a really good week, I think my nerves were just shot tonight. But funny thing about being a parent, as crazy as they can make you, they still bring you so much joy it’s unbelievable. When I tell Beckett it’s time to go night-night, he instantly lays his head on my…
