Heavenly

 This blog post is for a class project and is completely fictitious.

 Are you on the hunt for modest clothing to help you with all your transition from summer to fall needs?

Well let me tell you I have been and found the cutest little boutique called Heavenly! The name speaks for itself because their clothing is nothing short of Heavenly!

Shirt link here, Overalls link here.

Living in Northern California has created quite the little challenge for me!

It is way too hot for sweaters but I still want to embrace all the fall coziness, even if it's over 90 degrees outside. Luckily, Heavenly has solved all my issues.

Heavenly has helped me find the best fall has to offer, like these adorable corduroy overalls that scream fall but are light enough that I am not sweating to death. Hallelujah!

Heavenly website and social media page are simply amazing and full of stylish clothing! One thing I love that they do on their Instagram account is create reels with so many different ways to style your outfits. If you're looking for some outfit inspo, go and check them out! 

I absolutely love that Heavenly's entire "fallosophy" (see what I did there) is surrounded with helping women find fashionable modest clothing, that is affordable without sacrificing quality. They believe that women are divine, elegant, and beautiful and we should embrace our beauty. Don't you just love that!?

You can find links to my personal favorites here, Heavenly's website here, Instagram, Facebook and my colab with them on Pinterest here.  #embracebeauty

 

The Thunder Rolled

Last night right after all my little one's minus Fisher were all settle in their beds.

Drinks, bathroom and philosophizing completed.

As I sat on the couch snuggling an almost asleep Fisher,

a storm let loose with lightening and thunder right above our home.

It rattled the house and us.

I took a moment to settle myself and than headed straight 

to my littlest ones room. 

Sure enough they were terrified!

Pretty soon everyone was in the family room!

Dallin only stayed up for a moment before heading back to bed,

the others needed some help to calm themselves.

So we talked and watch some cartoons.

Around 10 pm everyone was back to bed and fell asleep to the sound of rain.

P.S. I truly have never heard thunder as loud as I did last night!

Schizophrenia sucks

I have a child with a server mental illness.

Someday's are great and some are super hard.

There are a lot of okay days and kinda hard.

Today is a hard day.

Today is a he can't get out of bed to do the things he needs to.

Today is a will he ever be able to really go to school?

Today is a reminder that his mind is broken 

and the life I had hoped for him when he was younger

will most likely never happen.

Today I am tired and have been 

trying to help him get back to who he was for the past two years.

He most likely will never be who he once was.

Schizophrenia stole my son from me.

One day he was who he had always been.

Happy, tons of friends, social, loved school and the tuba.

The next like a flash and he was someone else.

Now he lays in his bed unable to deal with

the social pressure, full of anxiety.

My heart breaks because for the first time we had so much real hope.

He's on a new med that has been amazing.

I started to see that future for him again and today it feels so out of reach.

 How do you mourn someone who is right in front of you,

someone you carried inside you, held, sang songs to?

Someone you watch and guided, someone who had so much life and laughter?

Someone who only at the age of 15 was taken from you?

You mourn their future and what could have been

and you love and embrace who they are now.

Today I am also grateful because it's just a kinda hard day and not a super hard one.

Today I'll say a prayer for my son and lean on my Savior.

There is always hope, it's just in a different future.

There is always love. 

Milestones

Milo and Evie wanted to walk home from school by themselves yesterday!

Break my mama heart!

I sat by the front window like a crazy person.  

I ran to the door when I saw them walking up and was greeted with hugs

and a since of accomplishment!

Also funny stories from the day and a not so funny

one of a girl in Evie's class who pulled her hair.

Lil Pranksters

Milo and Evie put the turd in Saturday night!

While I thought they were playing happily out side,

they were happily putting conditioner and grass on my car.  

When I saw it I wasn't sure if I wanted to cry or yell!

I was already feeling broken by the first week of school!

Why did summer have to end?!

I didn't yell or cry,

I quietly sent them to bed and told them to never prank my car again.

They thought I would think it was funny and which I'm sure I will at some point.

Justin thought it was funny right away.

Although he was gone and only heard about it after the car was all cleaned up.

Being mom is hard sometimes.

Sometimes I want to run away!  Not forever but a weekend alone would be nice.

I am grateful for my role as mother.  I love my chicklets with all my heart.

They give me purpose and a reason to grow and be who the lord wants me to be.

With all that said, I think for Christmas I'm going to ask for a weekend away by myself!

2 Months!

Fisher is already two months! Crazy how fast time flies by!

It makes me laugh how big his head is!

I am sure he will grow into it one day soon!

Fisher at two months is smiling and babbling up a storm!

He complained for sometime about his shots.

He is sleeping about 8 hours a night!

Can I get a hallelujah!

He also loves being outside!

Nothing calms him down like be out in the fresh air!

His neck muscles are tight on his right side and so

we are doing some stretches to help losing them up.

Which is why he usually looks left. 

So glad to have this little man in our home!

Staycation

We did one last summer hooray before school started 

and celebrated what would have been my mom's 62nd birthday! 

Fisher and I pretty much just hung out while Lauren, Evie and Milo 

went on water slides and swam at Cherry Hill with their cousins!

We slept in Grandpa's trailer and the next day really celebrated my mom's birthday

with a trip to Leatherby's!  My favorite is the Almond Joy Sunday with a side of caramel! 

My mom would have loved it!

Also on the 18th I was able to spend sometime with Mike.

It was good to see him and watch what a good big brother he is to Fisher.

I pray that he will be able to see what will give him true happiness 

and that he will find his path back.

We love and miss him.

Justin was off jet setting to pick Dallin up from Texas!

So glad to have Dal home and so thankful that with the help from the program 

in Texas and the med changes that he is doing so well!

There is always hope and his future is full of hope.