I'm a Clever Girl!

I'm not saying what you think I'm saying!

I'm saying that I was just accepted into the Clever Girls Collective blogger network!!

They are a social media agency that connects brands with social media influencers.  In their network, there is currently about 6,400 bloggers!  I'm super thrilled to be a part of that.

What that means for this blog:

Sometimes you may see sponsored posts.  I might blog about something like Starbucks (which I LOVE, y'all know that), but it will also be 100% my own words & opinions even though I am compensated for my work, influence & reach.  

This is a good opportunity for me, as a stay-at-home-mom, to be able to help contribute to our family's income.  It's an answer to prayer.  My heart is to stay at home with my children & work from there.  

So, this is one of the ways that God has worked that out for me.

I'm super thankful!

What We Like to Do

I am one of those moms.  You know the ones; unkempt hair, late to things, messy car, general frazzled look.  This is tough business for me!  I have to work real hard to figure out what to do in any given day.  I lean heavily on Pinterest, blogs and other mamas for ideas/support.  For those of you out there who can relate, here are a few things that are working:

1)  Pom Poms!  We put them in containers, we throw them up in the air, we push them through small openings in plastic lids.  We sort them, we love them.  Most importantly, they love them.  Win.

2)  Hallway of Paper

I give them catalogs and magazines and let them tear all the pages out in the hallway between their two rooms.  We then store them in a plastic bag in the hall closet for next time.  The bag is full now, so it's extra fun to jump in, throw up in the air and just be crazy kids making a mess.  Yay for organized chaos.

3)  Bring the outdoors indoors for the colder months

We brought their climber inside my son's room, put the pool under the slide & filled it with balls.  So. much. fun. for them.

These are just 3 things that have been fun for us.  They feel like little mommy victories (miracles?)  Hopefully one or more of them will be wins at your house too.

*Please share any ideas that have worked for you too.  I'd love to do a follow-up post of other great ideas to help moms with toddler/pre-school aged kiddos.  Just email me.

I Am a Mama First.

I haven't blogged much in awhile.  The main reason?  I am SO busy with these cuties:

I thoroughly enjoy our life together, but being a stay-at-home mama of two under four is HARD.  It has been a growing, learning, stretching time for me.  I feel as though I have been barely able to keep my head above water at times, but I love this.  I love being right where I am--aware of my weaknesses and a mess at times, but with them in every moment.  I don't want to miss anything in these precious few years that I have with them all to myself.  I am so grateful to God for His help--His faithfulness to help me become who I need to be for them and for His glory, too.

All this to say, I may be in a place where I am ready to start blogging again.