Welcome Back Sweet Ones
Grab your glass and get your beverage of choice ready. Tonight I’m going with a glass of white wine. I typically buy red but I bought a bottle of both red and white wine for girls night two Fridays ago and we never got to the white, so lets get to it tonight! Let me know what’s in your glass. I’m thinking I’ll start publishing these series on Sunday afternoon, so when you are ready to settle down for the night it’ll already be posted and we can reflect on our week and prepare for the next.
Let me tell you about my long week. Well we’ve been recovering from this mucus cold, it’s super annoying. The whole house got it, and the most annoying part is that we would be fine all day long and as soon bedtime rolled around that mucus would just build up and make the morning absolute shit. I had to make green tea and honey every single morning before I could talk because for some reason I lost my voice every night and woke up with the most hoarse voice. Kingston (my two year old) kept asking me why I wasn’t talking, I felt so bad. He would wake up, I would bring him downstairs and rush to make my tea so I could talk to him. I’m not joking when I said I had no voice. I probably could have taken a spoonful of honey each morning to be quicker but I didn’t think of that until right now..soo noted for next time. Thankfully Kingston didn’t catch this little cold, SO I THOUGHT. The poor thing was up all Friday night throwing up the mucus. Hopefully it doesn’t last as long for him. I guess I am grateful we got to get over ours before he got it so we didn’t have to be miserable while taking care of him. The cold season is no joke when you have a little one. (update Kingston had an ear infection and a sinus infection, he’s on antibiotics now.)
Aside from the cold, this week in the kitchen we tried a new venison recipe and it came out amazing. So good we made it twice. It was back strap steak bites. I plan to post the recipe soon and I will add a substitution for the meat if you don’t want to use venison. I can explain more of what the back strap is, on that post if you aren’t familiar. I also made a new sourdough recipe I’ll post as well, I have to make some adjustments first because it could have used more cream cheese I just don’t know how much more yet. I’ll play around with it some more so if you make it, you have perfect measurements. It was jalapeno popper pinwheels. I’m a big fan of pinwheel recipes so I’m excited to make different variations.
Lets see… what else happened this week… Oh yeah I decided I was going to cut my own hair… We’ve all been there right? Sean (my boyfriend) does security every Friday night during the winter, so after Kingston went to bed I was left to my own devices, that’s red flag #1. I tried to clean up our room and organized my desk. I sat down to do my hair routine to GROW my hair. My scalp oil was next to my scissors, red flag #2. Before I knew it I was parting my hair getting ready for CURTAIN bangs while watching Happy Gilmore 2. Parted the bangs watched ONE video and told myself easy enough, red flag #3. It’s never, EVER, easy enough. But hey I haven’t cut my own hair since I was like 16 and back then it didn’t come out good so this time it has to, right? Nope. Never trust the people who cut their own hair on social media. They know what they’re doing, giving people false hope, encouraging the boredom, I fell victim. One video and I felt like a hair dresser, false confidence was given. Just kidding of course. Anyway, so here I am 11pm at night butchered bangs, maybe if I style them it wont be so bad…Wrong again. It got worse. I left it alone and went to get a haircut the next morning and now I have to teach myself how to style bangs. But lets change perspective a little.
The truth is, I’ve been feeling down lately. My bedroom has felt like a mess, I’m struggling with organizing it. Sean and I live with his parents while we save up for our own house. We don’t want to find somewhere to rent because it feels like a waste of money. Rent is way too high to spend on a place that we’ll never own. No judgement to people that do rent. If we didn’t have Sean’s parents to rely on we would have to rent as well. We’re super grateful for the opportunity to stay here and save up as much as possible. With that being said, Sean and I have all of our stuff, including bathroom, and kitchen/ food in our room ( for some personal reasons we have to keep things locked in our room) So it’s extremely crowded with everything we own. Kingston has his own room which is great but again some things have to stay locked away. You know the saying “an organized room is an organized mind.” My mind has been matching my room. I haven’t been motivated to take care of myself because just like the bedroom, I don’t know where to start. I need to lose weight, I need to eat right, I need to learn skin care, I need to raise Kingston, I need to save money, I need to cook, I need to clean, I need to make time for God. My mom said I need to fill up my cup before I fill others. Take care of me before I take care of them. Which is why I started my hair routine. But I wasn’t doing my hair routine faithfully. Then I cut my hair impulsively into a haircut that typically requires daily maintenance. Maybe that was God. Maybe it wasn’t something set out to inconvenience me, but to motivate me to wake up earlier and take care of myself.
Sean bought me a round brush blow dryer which I love. It is so much more simple than using a blow dryer and a round brush, I don’t think my brain could multi-task that well with that combo. I’ve been watching some YouTube and playing around with my bangs. I think I have the bangs almost down, I just need to do better with the rest of my hair. If you have any tips and tricks please please drop them down below! But with everything I just mentioned up there, I do think this hairstyle will force me to take time to take care of me. My mother-in-love (a saying she created since Sean and I aren’t married yet) would say, when you get ready as if you were going somewhere you automatically feel a little better. As a stay at home mom I often stay in pajamas, or sweats. Messy hair, no makeup, or day old makeup. I go about my day feeling extra overstimulated, and extra hot because the sweats are cozy until I’m running around with a two year old. My goal for this next week will be to wake up before Kingston, do my hair, and put real clothes on. Once I can do those three things daily, and it has become a habit I will work on my next steps. I highly encourage you sweet ones to wake up early enough to do at least two things that make you feel good before starting your day. If you already do this I would love to know what you do, and any tips on waking up would be great because I definitely struggle. Lets close this week’s Pour a glass with a prayer.
Heavenly Father we’re here today to connect with our sisters and brothers in Christ, to share our daily lives and try to find you in every moment. I pray you be with my sweet ones and I, this upcoming week to protect us, guide us, and show us how great you are. Thank you for providing love and care to us this past week Lord, in Jesus name, Amen.
Thank you for sitting with me tonight. Remember to slow down, breathe, and praise God. Try to find the positives within the negatives this week.
I’ll save you a seat at the next table.
Destiny✨
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