Hey Hey Hey! It’s THURSDAY! Middle school sports kickoff tonight and we are HERE for it! I asked for any questions you might have via Instagram earlier this week and you guys came through with some good stuff! It’s funny because I got several of these over and over. Great minds were thinking alike. 😉
This was THE most asked question and I realize if you were asking on IG you’re probably not reading here. I’ll be sure to refer people to this post later on Instagram. BUT…the quick answer is when I did some updating on my blog last fall it erased me from all those platforms. I’ve e-mailed my blog guy and we’ll be looking into bringing back the e-mail list as well as {hopefully} my posts on those blog platforms. I’ve got my fingers crossed it happens soon. In the mean time, I’ll try to be better about letting my IG friends know I have a new post!
I LOVE this question! The very best way to contact us about a Mix and Match Travel Agency Walt Disney World trip is to head to our website. This will take you directly to the Disney page where you can plug in your information in order for us to get back to you with some more information.
EEEEEEEKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!! I’m SO glad you asked! {This was the second most asked question and THANK YOU!;)} We are working on it. We’re not exactly sure when season three will kick off but we have some fun things in store for this season! I can’t wait to share it with you!
Right now I’m still blogging three days a week, Wednesday-Friday. Starting September 5th, the plan is to go back to four days so I’ll be blogging Tuesday-Friday. Please keep checking back! Lots of new posts coming!
All throughout college and even early married life my views were I wanted to work! I know some women dream of getting pregnant and staying at home to raise a family, but it wasn’t my dream. Well, that is until I got pregnant. Then my plans changed and we learned a little more about the phrase, “Never Say Never”. I finished that year knowing it would be my last and once the school year was over began my stay-at-home-mom gig.
I don’t really have a great answer other than the second I was pregnant my feelings on this changed. And Tab shared in the feeling too so it was an easy decision for us.
She LOVES it! I’m not sure I’ve ever felt as good about a decision as I do about holding her back a year. I was nervous to send her for so many reasons but she’s the baby in my house taking the top spot. However, that girl walks into school so confidently each and every day. She loves it all….her teacher, her new friends, recess, the cafeteria, music, brain breaks, and so much more. Her only dislike is the start time. She’d prefer a 9:00 a.m. start time because she’s the slowest to get up in the morning. Once she’s up she has the best attitude but getting her up is the challenge.
You’re so very sweet to say this, but each and every marriage has it’s struggles. Just last week Tab and I were so annoyed with each other over ridiculous things add in four kids, lots of places to be, and a home renovation where it often feels like we’re living out the show, Hoarders, and voila-you and your spouse are just annoyed. It happens to us all! Something Tab and I do well is communicate. We talk it out. Try our best to see the others’ side and work on some compromises or resolutions. Sneaking away for alone time is important to us too. It might be a date night, it might be hanging on the couch when kids are in bed, or it might be coffee on the patio in the early morning hours. It’s important to both of us to prioritize each other with our time.
A girlfriend and I were just having this conversation recently. When she and I were talking I didn’t put much thought into the word, “resentful”, because the context of our conversation was just more about getting annoyed with your spouse. But since this question is just a sentence long, it’s the word I’m focusing on, “resentful”. Do I ever feel resentful?
No, because his football job as well as his regular 9-5 job are both decisions we made together. When new opportunities arose for him, they were choices we talked about and came to a decision together. If he’d decided to become a football official on his own without discussing it with me and chose to travel fourteen weekends in the fall all by himself, then YES! But that isn’t the case.
And am I ever lonely? I have four kids. hahahaha! No, it’s never quiet at my house!
There are usually a couple events that occur in the fall I’d prefer to have him with me but I have sweet friends that are happy to let me tag along as a third wheel. 🙂
I’d like to add that if he were home, there’d be some events that he’d join us for like our town’s Oktoberfest festival but I don’t let him being out of town stop us from going and making memories. Know what I mean? There are things that would be really great if he could attend but I don’t let it stop us from going. I often ask girlfriends to join or a friend and her kids or even other families {and they just know I’ll be solo}.
Now that he’s officiating in the NFL his time away from home feels much shorter than when he reffed college football. Whew! I got long-winded on that question.
Thank you for saying that! I’ve been using this cream shadow in “Champagne”.
It’s probably time for another house update where I give you a little more details on how it’s going. If you missed update #1, you can read it here. We are remodeling everything except the dining room and front room. The office and powder bath weren’t part of the original plan but they will probably get a little facelift as well. The upstairs was done first so we lived downstairs while that happened. Then we switched and are living upstairs while the downstairs is being finished. I think we’re still eight-ish {I hope} weeks out and it can’t come soon enough!
SO MANY THINGS….the weather, my kids playing fall sports, all the fun fall things like-Halloween, fall festivals, the fair, FOOTBALL {see-I really don’t resent him-we all look forward to the season!}, JEANS, slow cooker fall meals, and OUR HOUSE BEING FINISHED!
No, you might think we are based on how often the Shulls feed us dinner. They’re the BEST! But we’re staying in our house with a few overnight stays at my wonderful in-laws!
I was wearing a cardigan in my IG story when I asked for questions. The cardigan was this one! On that particular day, it was rainy and nice outside. I won’t be wearing that cardigan again for a while!
YES! Have you missed the posts? I detailed our trip….
And then I shared What I Wore in my post yesterday. 🙂
I’ve been thinking I need to do a post where I share meals you can make without a kitchen sink, oven, or a stove. Bahahahaha! I’m going to share some of our favorite week night meals right now…
*Italian Chicken-but we sub the carb for rice. I’ve gotten lucky with some pasta in the slow cooker but earlier this week I tried to make spaghetti in the slow cooker and noodles turned mushy. UGH! It was so gross! I ended up telling the kids if they ate it then I’d take them for ice cream. #youwinsomeyoulosesome But guess who ate their dinner? EVERYONE!
*Chicken Noodle Soup-I don’t really use a recipe for that one…just add chicken breasts, carrots {my people love cooked carrots}, celery, chicken broth, and seasonings. Then later about 20ish minutes from serving I’ll add noodles.
*BBQ Chicken Rice Bowls-These are some favorites too! Anything we can kind of all dump on a plate together or in a bowl and call it a one-bowl kind of deal is what’s working best right now.
Oh friend….it takes a village and I’m praying you find yours soon! A village you can trust so you feel confident when you leave that baby! I found the best sitters from our church’s youth group. I called staff that worked at church to get some numbers. One of those girls became our very favorite sitter from high school all the way through college to married life. Now she has her own babies and I’M THE ONE BEGGING her to let me watch them. hahaha!
That’s all the questions I have for you today! Thank you again for sending those in! I’ll be back here tomorrow with Friday Favorites!
XO
Was I the one who asked the question about when the podcast was starting again? I had the same question. Bahahahaha! You do an AWESOME job balancing family and Tab’s schedule!!!
You were one of the people who asked-ha! Just kidding! And THANK YOU!
Love this kind of post! Can’t wait to see your remodel!
Would it be weird if you blogged Monday and Tuesday too, and it was just Britt pics in the overalls and rainbow socks. Because I could see those EVERY. DAY.
Girl-she wore that outfit to school today! I couldn’t resist! She walked down the stairs and Bowen goes, “Oh, Britt you look so cute”. He didn’t think it was weird so we went with it!
Thank you for responding to my question about resentment! I realize that I didn’t articulate myself well. I was trying to ask if you ever resent the situation (I.e. parenting solo often), not whether or not you resent Tab for his career. I hope I didn’t come off offensive- I apologize if I did! Your response gives me hope that this will get easier as kids get older. I love her dearly, but it is hard to have riveting conversations with my two-year-old, and sometimes I do feel the loneliness creep in when I’m solo! I love your idea about continuing to do the things we’d be doing when he is home! Thanks for always being so genuine and real. Yours is one of my favorite blogs to read!
Oh Alison, no, I didn’t think that at all! I didn’t think it was offensive. Seriously-a girlfriend and I were just talking about that the other day so it was fresh on my mind! Promise-I wasn’t offended. :). And YES-it’s going to get so much easier! When my kids were little, it was so much harder. Almost every weekend I would plan something with a friend. At the time, I had two friends who’s husbands worked weekends and one friend who’s husband was a firefighter so odds are one of those moms were free to hang. We’d plan something out of the house with kids or take turns at each other’s houses to have adult conversations and chat. I HIGHLY recommend it! I also wouldn’t count other friends out. One time I mentioned something to a friend who worked full time and she was like-even though my husbands at home all weekend I’d love to get together with moms/kids one night. I would have totally counted her out not thinking she’d be interested but she was. So, invite some other moms/kids to hang-for sure! Now my kids are old enough we plan a fun night…this weekend-we have the high school football game. It’d be more fun WITH Tab but it’ll be fun without him. And then tomorrow night we have a fantasy football draft for me & Bowen. One of his friends made a Mom/son league. We’ve already asked Nixon to help so it’ll be a fun night as well. Promise it gets easier!