Inspiration | A Thankfully Imperfect Woman

Jan 22

A good kind of exhausted…

I’m exhausted today.

The kind of exhausted that comes from a crazy couple of days searching out the newest and greatest (at affordable prices) clothing and accessories at a buying show for our store.

The kind of exhausted where your brain just goes on hold and doesn’t want to think, and body begs for the couch…and Jessica Fletcher (Murder, She Wrote) reruns…and flavored Keurig coffee.

The kind of exhausted where you look out the window and see the temperature at -30 and want to pull up that blanket a little closer under your chin.

And yet… Read more

Jan 4

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I love you to the Moon and back…

My husband was not supposed to buy me a Christmas gift this year. You see I’d purchased myself a fabulous ring at one of our local festivals and it was supposed to be my Christmas gift (never mind that I wore it already in September). But honestly, I truly wanted nothing more. Did he listen? No.

The man doesn’t listen. I swear he never listens to me when it comes to gift giving. That would be one of his few flaws. I really, really, really didn’t want him to get me anything. With that being said… Read more

Jan 3

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From whence we came…

I love this little area on my wall…

The vintage kitchen tools somehow remind me of my Mom…she didn’t own these particular ones, and only had a few similar, but somehow they remind me of her. I think it’s the red handles. She loved red and I love vintage. Needless to say I had to have these.

The top two pictures are of my Dad as a little boy (on the left), and my Mom as a little girl (on the right). I love these photos and the innocence they represent. Simple pictures of a little boy going fishing and a little girl playing with her dollies. Beautiful snapshots of them enjoying the things they loved – and continued to love through adulthood! Dad loved to fish and Mom loved babies. The stories I could tell… Read more

Jan 2

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A Thankfully Imperfect Woman’s Epiphany Moment

As I sit here writing my first blog, I am eating a piece of my daughter’s twelfth birthday cake and having a cup of Vanilla Cream decaf coffee, and it’s 6:07 a.m.Yes, I am a thankfully imperfect woman. I am a part of the middle class. A family raising, comic strip living, ever-grateful, Christian woman who’s main goal in life is to find something wonderful in every single day.

I have an incredible husband who I credit as my gift from God, I have three girls who are all growing up faster than their Momma would like (and who I’m very proud of), and I have my life…such as it is with my version of health issues. I’ve had my version of hard knocks in life, I’ve lived the “I have to be perfect for everyone” life, and I’m here living in the NOW for me and my family. Read more