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Don’t Wear Skinny Jeans and Other Lessons From the ER

November 7, 2017 By: Miranda29 Comments

Don't Wear Skinny Jeans and Other Lessons from the ERLife is tough!  It can knock you down with little or no warning.  But even on those days that are hard there are moments that cause you to pause and smile and maybe even have a good chuckle later.  So today, we are going to look at some deep wisdom (sarcasm) that I have learned from my trips to the ER.  This past year, has been one of the toughest years physically so I want to celebrate a little having made it through the year.  I am celebrating my SCADanniversary (1 year from my last SCAD heart attack)!  Don’t Wear Skinny Jeans and Other Lessons From the ER is my hurrah for those of us who are learning to survive and thrive despite some medical challenges!   [Read more…]

6 Survival Tips to Reduce Holiday Stress

November 1, 2017 By: Miranda13 Comments

6 Survival Tips to Reduce Holiday StressSnow, the smell of cookies baking and twinkling lights are all things that may remind us of the holidays.  So does arguments, stress and busyness.  For some the holiday season represents a positive time spent with family, cooking and shopping.  While others struggle with anxiety at the thought of being around relatives, the expectations of trying to be happy and all the preparation required as the holidays draw near.  Most people land somewhere in the middle.  So how can we mentally and emotionally prepare ourselves this year?  We want to enjoy and create some joyous holiday memories while still being realistic about our time and what is out of our control? Let’s lean into this question together to develop 6 survival tips to reduce holiday stress. [Read more…]

How to Know When to Keep or Fire that Friend?

October 23, 2017 By: Miranda13 Comments

How to Know when to Keep or Fire Your FriendIt happened when my daughter was still in the church nursery.  She was barely talking, and she was already mentioning her two “friends” by name.  I was caught off guard by my daughter’s strong desire to find friends.  But what started off as cute antics has grown. Those girls are still all friends 11 years later.  And fortunately, no one still bites each other any more!  Deep friendships are something most of us long to find.   Friends can make life so much more fun and the hard times more bearable.  Other times our friendships can be a source of great personal anguish.  So how to know when to keep or fire that friend is a survival skill we should all attain.  It will help us to draw and treasure the right friends and walk away from people who will drain us.

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3 Inspiring Mompreneurs for the Aspiring Creative

October 17, 2017 By: Miranda11 Comments

3 Inspiring Mompreneurs for the Aspiring CreativeDreaming of creating a business?  Would you love to bring in some additional income, but not sure how to juggle your time as a mom?  I want to share with you 3 inspiring mompreneurs for the aspiring creative.

When I was in college we had email. And that was it. Oh, and the fax machine. I hadn’t even heard of the internet. So as a woman, I had two choices: Career woman or Stay-at-home-mom. So I got to hand it to the generation behind me that rode the internet wave and developed their own choices. Out of this generation has sprung the  Mompreneur movement. Mompreneurs want to develop their interests on the side while keeping family a priority. So if you are dreaming of a future business here are 3 inspiring mompreneurs for the aspiring creative. [Read more…]

6 Ways to Break Free of Parenting from Guilt

October 12, 2017 By: Miranda9 Comments

 6 Ways to Break Free of Parenting from GuiltIf you look up mommy guilt on the internet there is a lot of information.  Feeling guilty as a mom is common.  We all want to feel like we are doing a good job and that we are accomplishing this all important job of parenting.  For this post though I want to go beyond some of the surface areas to look at the deeper issues below.  When we parent from a wounded place we set a pattern of parenting from guilt that hurts our authority as a parent and adversely affects our child in the long run. So let’s ditch the mom guilt and discover 5 ways to break free of parenting from guilt. [Read more…]

A Bride’s Guide to Marrying a Country Boy

October 3, 2017 By: Miranda11 Comments

A Bride's Guide to Marrying a Country Boy deerBefore I met my man I knew nothing about hunting.  OK, I knew a few things.  You know the Bugs Bunny episodes when Elmer Fudd “hunts” the rabbit? That was the extent of my knowledge.  Hunters talk to themselves and wear black and red jackets! So I had a few things to learn. Since you, my lovely readers, have been digging deep the past few weeks, examining your priorities and looking for ways to strengthen your families, I thought we should have some fun on this post!  So I’m sharing all my wisdom and experience here to create a bride’s guide to marrying a country boy!  Feel free to share…just don’t judge me!! 🙂 [Read more…]

Pursuing Your Passion while Achieving Your Priorities

September 26, 2017 By: Miranda10 Comments

Pursuing Your Passion While Achieving Your Priorities Soy BeansSeveral years after college, I interned at the Albert B. Sabin archive in Cincinnati.  At the time, I was a single mom working full-time as a flight attendant pursuing a master’s degree in Library and Information Science  (I know, crazy, right? I’ll come back to that).  Albert B. Sabin was one of the men credited for eradicating polio with his oral polio vaccine, in this country and around the world.  We are talking huge accomplishment.   But as I combed through his life I saw all his time spent away from his family.  There were several broken relationships in his personal life.  It made me wonder.   At the end of our life what will really matter?  Does accomplishing a great goal or dream outweigh the cost to our personal life?  Is it possible to pursue your passion while achieving your priorities? [Read more…]

10 Healthy Habits to Strengthen Your Family Bond

September 20, 2017 By: Miranda15 Comments

10 Healthy Habits to Strengthen your Family BondWhen my kids were younger I felt like I had more time to devote to each little step forward.   As they grew life seemed to go faster and faster!  It felt harder to keep an eye on the big picture of what I wanted for my children when I was just focusing on what had to be done for that day!   As a blended family, Country Boy and I knew we were going to have to make strengthening our family bond a priority.  Otherwise we were in real danger of acting separately from one another and not as a cohesive group.  And at the end of the day, what matters most to us is not the to do list, but the relationships within our family and the character of our children.   Here are 10 healthy habits to strengthen your family bond that we found benefited our family. [Read more…]

Calving Season at Hickory Hollow

September 13, 2017 By: Miranda8 Comments

Calving Season at Hickory Hollow cowsBig News!  It calving season at Hickory Hollow.

After waiting all summer the calves finally began to arrive Monday evening!

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Resolving to Think Like a Survivor

September 12, 2017 By: Miranda4 Comments

Resolving to think like a survivor stormMuch of America is currently trying to survive overwhelming natural disasters.  Two category 4 hurricanes have hit land causing incomprehensible damage and as I’m writing this our country is remembering the attacks of September 11th.  How do you think like a survivor?  What is the difference between people who seem to fade away under the crush of overwhelming circumstances and those that seem to only grow stronger? This question that has always intrigued me.  How do we resolve to think like a survivor? [Read more…]

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