If you are new here, or haven't yet heard, I'm expecting my second baby, due in June. With my due date being just a month away, i have been in nesting mode around here, getting all things ready for baby, which of course includes preparing meals and getting the freezer stocked for when our bundle arrives! Whether you are preparing for a baby, or a busy season of life, freezer meal prep is a great way to have healthy home cooked meals on hand when you don't have time to cook! Today I'm sharing...

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I remember bringing Maddie home from the hospital and being filled with a bucket list of worries and fears that daunted me as a new mom. For some reason I thought once I got through the stage of worrying about this new little life that I would be free to watch her grow, anxiety free! I since have learned how my fears in motherhood haven’t gone away, but have instead changed over the years.

Since becoming a mother almost 5 years ago, I’ve learned what is meant by the saying that children have a...

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I can't believe I am already sharing the half-way pregnancy update with our rainbow baby! It feels like yesterday I was sharing the news that we were expecting after our miscarriage this past summer! Not to mention, it truly feels like it was yesterday when found out we were having a boy at Christmas time! How are we already in two months into the new year!?

This pregnancy has been a blessing and I'm so very thankful, but wow has it flown by! I have heard your subsequent pregnancies after your...

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Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; His love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story! - Psalm 107:1-2

This has been one of the hardest secrets to keep, and I am so excited to finally share the details with you all! Now, let's get into the details I've been so anxiously awaiting to share...

As most of you know, I had a missed-miscarriage, which means the baby stopped growing and didn't have a heartbeat shortly after the 8th week of my pregnancy. I hadn't realized I...

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It’s been about one month since I shared about my miscarriage, so I thought it was a good time to share a little overview of what the last year of my life has been like behind the scenes — as far as getting my hormones in order in order to get pregnant. You see, it took almost one full year to balance out my hormones - and ultimately get pregnant, (I share more about my story on my IG stories here). The journey was a tough one, but also one I am so thankful for, after learning that I was...

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As an adult I have always been considered physically fit, strong and healthy. I figured when I got pregnant I would be the woman who still attended all of her regular fitness classes, ate clean and healthy all the time and kept that same fit physic shortly after giving birth. But then the reality came screeching into my life when I realized that the postpartum body was going to take some time, prayer and work.

I always looked at women on social media who just had a baby and fit back into their...

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Maddie's second year passed by in what seemed to be a moment's time, (someone please tell me it eventually gets slower)!? From full body smiles, learning to run, twirl, and eventually hop, to finding out she had a "no" in her, and exploring her intense determination to climb anything she could find...the year went by in a flash!

Like most momma's on their children's birthdays, I had host of emotions that came with my little girl getting another year older. Birthdays make you realize that time...

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Let me start by saying that I typically never post pictures like these, and I probably never will again; But I have a message that has been burning on my heart, and so I share these photos with a purpose. Today I am sharing these pictures and being open about my personal journey because I think it is important that we as women see transformation pictures with a different kind of message. It wasn't easy to decide to share these pictures, not because i'm ashamed of them, but because I didn't...

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As many of you know, my daughter Madeline had her first birthday on June 11th! It was such a special day, celebrating our girl who is truly a gift from the Lord after we prayed for so many years for a baby! We started the celebration off with Dashing Dish Blueberry Pancakes, in unicorn shapes of course! And we spent the morning doing some smash-cake pictures at home, using a giant Dashing Dish pancake as a smash cake, since it was the morning after all! ;)

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It's hard to believe that we just celebrated my daughters first birthday on June 11th! Not only has there been an incredible amount of changes in our lives since she has been born; But there have also been so many changes as it pertains to my relationship with food and my body since I became pregnant with her as well! It is truly an incredible journey to watch your body grow and change as it carries a life during a pregnancy. Yet, what was even more incredible to me was how my body evolved in...

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