As I sit here drinking my coffee this morning, and arguing with my 3 year old about how he cannot have a cookie for breakfast, my soul is tired. I am mentally, physically, and emotionally tired. I don’t need a nap, I need a break and some grace!

As moms we feel like we have to have our crap together all the time. We feel like we’re not allowed to want to be away from our babies. We feel like we have to have all the patience in the world and to never lose our tempers.

Well listen up y’all, I lose my temper more than I lose my phone, which for the record, is all the dang time. I have more patience now than ever before, but I’m still impatient as heck. I juggle so much on a daily basis that I drop the ball in some aspect of my life daily!

BUT- I’m doing my best mama, just like you.

We aren’t perfect, so stop feeling like you have to be. God picked YOU to be the mama to those babies. That means he thinks you are perfect for them! He knows that some days you’re going to focus more on work or cleaning the house and less on playing with your babies. But he also knows that the next day you let the dishes and laundry pile up and you play hard and cuddle away because balance is nonsense! You just have to roll with the punches and pick your battles each and every day!

So, take that break. It helps you be the best mom to your babies. Give yourself some grace. We have to have the bad days so that we appreciate the good days.

You are doing a great job, mama. I promise.

It’s no secret that I’m straight stubborn with a side of sass, or straight sass with a side of stubborn depending on the day. I always have been, and that will never change. But, on the bright side, it’s allowed me to see who is in my life for the long haul, the rough times and my weak moments.

I am fiercely independent down to my core, so asking for help is not my specialty. When I ask you for help, it’s because I’ve reached my breaking point and truly need the help. So please, don’t make me feel bad for needing it. I will never say yes to someone asking if I need help with something, but if you walk in and just starting folding my laundry, I’ll say “Thank you” with the biggest smile on my face. I’m just stubborn like that.

Asking someone to watch my kids so that I can have a much needed date night with my husband makes me physically sick to my stomach, I feel like a burden and I feel like my kids are an inconvenience to others. But in reality, my kids are such a blessing that if I ask you to watch them, it’s because I trust you and I want you to spend time with my kids. But when you tell me no, I’ll just stay home and let my husband get away for a bit because he deserves it just as much as I do and I’ll take one for the team. I’m just stubborn like that.

I will hurt myself doing something that 3 people should be doing, but you best believe I will get it done and be dang proud of myself for accomplishing it. I’m just stubborn like that.

I will try to tackle all the things, on my own, and then finally blow up when I’ve had enough of feeling like I’m the only one doing anything. It’s not my best quality, but I’m just stubborn like that.

My stubborn personality can be one of my worst qualities, but I’ll be damned if it hasn’t taken my far in life. I’ve accomplished so many things because of how stubborn I am. I have found my strength and perseverance because of it. I have make some of our dreams come true because of it.

Be proud of your stubbornness, everyone is in some way or another. It’s apart of what makes you, you! It’s both a strength and a weakness, it’s just stubborn that way.

You know that you’ve found your soul mate when his dreams match yours. When you realize that you’re both envisioning the same life together that you’ve dreamt about since you we’re a little kid.

Since this is all so new to me, I just wanted to take a moment to tell our story and how we got here so that you know our journey, where we are now and can follow along with us as we continue to grow.

We started out on two flat acres with a single wide trailer and a shed. We created something on that two acres that most people would have never imagined doing with such little land to work with. It’s where we watch our dream start to come to life. It was small and just a hint of what we wanted, but it was exactly what we needed to start with. In 2016, we purchased our first two head of cattle! We raised two heifers, tons of chickens and welcomed our son at that home. We made memories, lived life and embraced the little things there. But He had bigger plans for us!

We quickly began outgrowing our 2 acres when our heifers gave birth to their first two calves in Fall 2017. After long talks and a ton of back and forth we decided that we had to purchase more land. We gave ourselves a deadline of April 2018 to find more land or we would take our calves to the sale barn. After years of praying, looking for land and frustration galore, We found our home in March and went into contract on April 5th 2018.

The road was so full of ups and downs, and to be completely honest, it still is. But we love it here and we’re excited to continue to grown and expand while we live out our dream and offer locally raised/grown food to our family and friends.

All of this is to say, never stop dreaming. Never give up on that thing that keeps pulling at you. Find a way to make it happen! You will never regret going after your dreams but you will always regret not trying!