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While I wait, again.
Some thoughts from what God is teaching me right now.❤️ I hope it encourages and blesses you. Happy Friday!🍒 “While I Wait” by Lincoln Brewster Xoxo, Fellow mamma, Shantel 🫶🏻
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Better than a hallelujah
This week was hard for me. Things added up on my plate, my mind, my heart. I found myself crying out to Jesus for help many days, and feeling frustrated I couldn’t handle life with grace. I heard this song on the radio yesterday that I haven’t heard in over a decade. It broke…
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The End of a Season. A Reflection of Nursing and the Bond with my Babies.🤍
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”Isaiah 49:15 ESV If you have a nursing infant or have nursed, then (usually) you know the bond and emotional attachment you have between you and…
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Spring Clean Your Heart❤️🌷
If you’re like me the beginning of spring means something new fresh -cleaning out the old things going through an organizing, and it brings about a sense of renewal in my body and heart One thing I’ve started doing is, at the beginning of spring re-evaluate my spiritual walk and spiritual goals. Not so…
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Anxiousness – it’s last chapter.
You can’t go more than 2 feet out your door without encountering someone with anxiety today. It’s literally everywhere and a part of society like gum to the bottom of a shoe. As moms, it’s one of those things that hits hard after a newborn, in the postpartum phase. You think of way too…
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1 year with our Harrison Cooper
This year has flown past. Literally. With our first 2 babies, time didn’t seem to go quick as it has been. But with our 3rd, it’s felt like a freight train at full speed never stopping. I blinked and he was 1. I have a love hate thing with watching my babies grow. I’ve…
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Spiritual warfare
I’ve been trying very hard to stay way from the internet. It’s a broken place right now. This past month I’ve seen Satan attack the church like a tornado. Just within this week I had to explain to my 5 year old that people were sobbing at church on Sunday because a family has…
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“A Night in the Life”
I haven’t been too good with sharing updates in Harrison’s life as he’s growing. It’s true when moms talk about getting to their 3+ kids that you have to really hone in on your priorities because your time is limited. Overall tho, he’s been the easiest and most go with the flow child even…
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Family Vacation – St George, Utah. Guide for Young Families
I’ve gotten thru mooost of the unpacking and laundry from our trip, and so I’m sitting down justifying a minute to myself to share all about our trip this last week. We had so much fun and it honestly felt so surreal taking our first, just us, family vacation with our five-some. Where did…
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1 Month with our Little Harrison. 1 Month Postpartum
Has it really been a month already? Wow, does time go by faster with each kid! It feels like we just brought him home from the hospital last week. But anyways, it’s been a whirlwind of a first month. This being my 3rd baby I honestly didn’t have too many assumptions for what the…