February is coming up meaning the commercial scene is currently flooded with all things related to Valentine’s Day. Considering pink is one of my favorite colors and I love any excuse to doll up, Valentine’s Day is actually one of my favorite holidays. 

Beyond the stereotypical reasons to love Valentine’s Day, I love the holiday because it forces me to sit down and reflect on all my relationships and how I can improve them and love that person better. 

Every year around this time I get an itch to assess the year and figure out what I have accomplished, take a look at my vision board for the year and figure out how to get back on track if need be. Being completely transparent with you about 50 percent of my 2019 vision board is a complete wash, but (surprisingly) I am completely ok with that. 

Around March this year I decided to take the limits off of myself and focus on what gives me peace versus putting unrealistic expectations on myself based off of what I felt would make others around me “proud” or “satisfied”. 

So I’ve officially been doing this stay at home mom thing for 17 months now. I remember when Shawn and I first decided that this was the journey we were going to take I was super hesitant because I wasn’t too confident on what my life would look like being dictated by a little person. I will admit it definitely wasn’t a walk in the park for the first year (well it’s still not) but I can confidently say we’re in a good swing of things now.