Happiness Is.....

Happiness it does so much good for my soul.

 

Life has been so so good to us. In the sadness of the past few weeks, with the Boston bombing and the West Explosion, it really makes me treasure our day to day, our routine, the little things that annoy me some days. Perspective... a fresh, welcomed perspective on the preciousness of life.

 

 

Happiness is........

 

Neighbors loving our babies.

I kind of adore Crewe's face. Have I told you how much I love weird?

Toddlers who's faces still look so baby-ish

Traffic jams up in the hizzouz!!!

Nerds... nough said, they are way hotter than jocks. 

 

Accomplishing a 10 foot walk in daddy's shoes that took 20 minutes

Painting with buds

You did say paint my leg, right?

 

Helping mommy find some summer shoes. This photo was NOT daddy approved

Dipping everything we eat in barbecue sauce... including strawberries

Cat watching....

And worm hunting

Spring flowers

And yard word with Daddy

 

There is still so much promise and happiness in this world! Just look at our future!

I pray everyday to God, that he can take everything from us but let us keep Jesus, each other and our health... everything else is abundance and excess.  

 

Life Changing

My life definitely goes in phases of how my time is spent. I have seasons where I feel I have more time to blog and then I have seasons where I am consumed by my It works (wrapping) business. Or maybe I should say those are the 2 that I will get lazy with one to spend on the other and vice versa.

 

I try to never let God, being a wife and being a mommy be the things that get sacrificed; although if I am being honest sometimes they do.

 

I haven't posted a lot about my business lately... lets be honest I haven't posted much period lately, but wanted to in honor of my year anniversary with It Works. Ya'll this company has completely changed our financial future, COMPLETELY! I have never done anything remotely close to Multi Level Marketing companies and was so super scared to try this and fail.

This opportunity constantly kept popping into my head and I kept pushing it down.

 

But I couldn't get the "what if?" question out of my head. What if it's a totally legitimate direct sales company like Mary Kay and so many others and I hit the jackpot because I got in at the right time? What if the compensation plan rewarded me more than I ever deserved for the effort I put forth in the beginning? And what if these wraps are amazing and good for you like they say? The formula has been around 20 years and the company for 12.

 

 

 

All I wanted when I started was to be able to pay for 1 family vacation a year with the money I brought in. I was going to be thrilled if I could make and extra $500 a month.... well the longer I worked at this business the commission checks just kept increasing... like to the point that I am making more, a month, than I did with my full time job before I had Crewe AND I am not working full time hours AND I AM staying at home with this munchkin.

 

 

Momentum phases happen ONCE for a company and that is what we are in right now FOLKS. NOW IS THE TIME.

 

 

The product sells itself. For more pictures of what this product does go HERE.

 

 Repeating the steps below is all it takes to make THOUSANDS. I am serious.. it is THAT simple. 

 

 

 And I think if you join today, then six months from now you will be doing what I did and asking yourself why didn't I get in when I was first approached? Because this business and product are amazing and it is changing my life.

 

I know this girl on my team kicks herself for not starting sooner, but she still scored a $10,000 bonus in March

 

 

Hear me when I say that it takes 3 workers below you to make 5k + a month with this company.

Feel free to email me if you are at all curious about this life changing venture! alexismoran82@yahoo.com

Our Weekend (aka a bunch of pictures with captions)

This weekend we headed to the Big D for a conference that I had for the AWESOME company that I joined exactly a year ago that has more than replaced (like getting close to doubling) my full time salary before I became a stay at home momma. INSANE!

 

More on that later!

 

My blog has suffered a bit here lately because I run into feeling like I need some heartfelt, deep, or super funny post in order to blog and I haven't had much of any of that lately, but life has been good, so why not post about that right?

 

I will let the pictures speak for themselves. We had an amazing time in Dallas and needed the getaway.

I stripped all the clothes off my husband due to the 40 degree weather. Thanks honey.

When I get to heaven I will ask God why he made THIS the only way giraffes could eat grass.

Crewe would have spent the entire 3 hours walking around the tree border had we let him.

 Feeding the birds was by far our favorite exhibit. I was surprised at how much Crewe liked it... minus the time he tried to stab the bird with the stick.

 

Revisiting my childhood. My kid HATES a good carousel ride, so momma does it with him.

 

I have learned to throw schedules out the window on long car rides and to just enjoy the journey so we made a lot of pit stops. Nikki's swirl shop is a must and you cant go 6 hours without stopping at at least 1 park... or at least we can't. 

Like father like son

Getting ready for my bar routine followed by my Olympic dismount.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Teaching how he learns

So after my post about being more intentional with my time, it appears I have become more creative. Organization comes naturally to me. I love it and it loves me... being creative on the other hand is not my strong point.

 

 

I struggle so much teaching Crewe through play. I want to make learning fun for him and he is not one of those kids that likes to color and draw being in a confined area. He would much rather run cars into our baseboards or push his lawn mower in circles around the couch all the while screaming, "Don't chase Sophie (our dog), don't chase Sophie". Can you tell what we say to him.... a lot?

 

My first baby is pushing 10... too old to be terrorized by toddler toys.

 

 

 

It was also my mission to not spend a lot of money given the plethora of toys we always have scattered around the house, so this forced me to get creative and combine what he loves doing with learning material we already have.

 

 

I came up with this little game that holds his attention pretty well all the while we are spending quality time together and he is learning.

 

He LOVES animals and cars so combining them is a little slice of heaven for him. We will just play simple games where I will ask him to put his yellow car on the 2 ducks... or his blue plane on the 9 bees. Simple things that helps him with colors and counting.

 

We by no means do this everyday and most days I praise myself for the amount of "self play" I let Crewe do ;-), but coming up with these games really helps me sit down and engage with him.

 

 

Everytime we go to the store I let him pick out 1 Hot Wheels car to add to his collection. By the time he is 10 I am confident we will have no less than 500 hot wheels.

 

Nothing too impressive but I just wanted to share what we are doing to learn and play! 

Word of the year and Play

First,  I want to start by saying THANK YOU to everyone who takes the time to comment on my posts. It means so much to me and even though I am not always the best at responding, I intend to change that.

 

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There is no big surprise that my word of the year is the same word as last year. To be honest I feel like I miserably failed at being INTENTIONAL with anything. If I look back on last year I probably should have picked the word SELFISH because that is what I feel I spent most of the year being.

 

Thank goodness I have another year to try to improve on last, but this year I am picking 2 "Words of the Year". One for my family and one for God. For my family it is to be more intentional with how I spend my energy and time. For God it is, hands down, going to be TRUST.

 

While I LIKE to feel like most of my days are spent trusting God... I am plaqued by worry and fear most of the time. My biggest worry is about the health and well being of these two.

Crewe's hat kills me!

 

I have such a hard time releasing the tight grip I have on them and the feeling that by worrying I can somehow protect them... when really I am just robbing myself of all the current joys. Realizing that in your mind is great, but living it in your day is HARD. 

 

I really struggle with believing in my heart that GOD loves them and cares about them more than I do. That he always has their best intentions in his heart.

 

 I  AM incredibly greatful however; that my walk in trusting him is a PROCESS not a PROJECT. It is not something that in 30 days I have to be perfect at nor does God expect perfection. What he does expect of me is to keep growing in faith and trust.

Toilet paper rolls save my life when I am cooking dinner.

 

That leads into my family word, INTENTIONAL. I feel like so much of my days get caught up with checking things off my to-do list. While I do feel like a to-do list is good and necessary to have at times... for a Type A personality it becomes all encompassing... to where I don't sit down to play with Crewe or snuggle up on the couch with my honey at the end of the day until that to-do list is complete.

 

I don't want to miss all the enjoyments of life, simply to check a few things off the list. Things that are going to be right back on the list tomorrow.... doing the dishes, laundry, sweeping the floor, making the beds... Can I get an AMEN?

 

My point is that those things are always going to be there.

 

I want to take the time to let Crewe out of the shopping cart to help me find stuff at the grocery store  or let him do his balancing act on the curbs as we walk to the car. The rush, rush, rush of the day has got to slow down.

 

 

I want facebook and all the other social medias out there to not occupy so much of my day. I want to spend the time I would be on facebook getting dinner on the table earlier, engaging with my husband after Crewe goes to bed (take that how you will ;-) and I am making it happen everyday. It feels so good, so refreshing, so much more how life is supposed to be. CONNECTING with those my heart loves most rather than my phone or the computer.

They are like damn addictions I tell you. It is madness!

 

And here's another cool thing about it... I have noticed when I shorten my to do list each day my patience drastically increases. I deal with tantrums better, small kinks in our plans for the day don't stress me out, I am just all around a happier person, which makes for a happier family and isn't that what all of us want?

 

Like my honey always tells me, "Babe, the things that you don't get checked off your list today will still be there tomorrow." My sweet laid back husband has it all figured out.

 

So here we go again "Intentional". Please be good to me this year!