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What I Wore - Best of 2015

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I enjoy checking some of my favorite blogs  The Pleated Poppy   &  Curly Crafty Mom  every week to see all of their adorable & easy outfit ideas! Now it's my turn! By taking photos of my outfits a few days a week, it makes me feel a little more accountable for what I put on before I walk out the door. Since tomorrow is the end of 2015, I thought I would share some of your favorite What I Wore post's of 2015.  What I Wore 2/11 Jeans: New York & Co Gingham Button Up: JCREW outlet Cargo Jacket:  Old Navy Boots: Teva Necklace: Silpada  What I Wore 3/18 Dress: Athleta Jacket: Old Navy Necklace: Target (old) Leggings: Walmart Boots: Teva  What I Wore 4/1 Black Skinny Jeans: Gap Outlet Jean Shirt: Gap Scarf: Shopko Shoes: Payless What I Wore 4/29 Dress: Athleta Tights: Nordstroms Boots: Teva Scarf: Maurices What I Wore 5/27 Peplum Top: handmade by my talented mom! Crop pants: Old Navy Wedges: Banana Republic outlet  Jewelry: old What I W...

Currently {vol.50}

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HI! Welcome to  Currently ! This post series is a great place to share what we are up to and share your post through the link up below. We can make new friends & encourage each other in this thing we call "Life". Please join me!  This is my  50th   week hosting this  Currently  link up, please join me this week or next or the week after, or any time  you can join in, I would Love to hear from you! Today, I am sharing a little about what happened in our world this past week! We surprised our kids with a mini trip to the Wisconsin Dells to the Great Wolf Lodge   for their Christmas present from us! They thought we were going on a quick trip to visit friends in Milwaukee. They had no idea that we were planning this surprise, we kept a good secret! Just before we arrived to the exit for the waterpark, I told my husband that I needed to use the rest room. My son whined that I should hurry because he wanted to get to Milwaukee. I turned on the ...

Christmas Traditions

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.Christmas Traditions. I have been wanting to start this traditions post for a few weeks. I had not started it as I kept seeing all of these gorgeous posts from other bloggers about their decorations and traditions that seemed WAYYY better than mine. So I kept procrastinating...thinking sooner or later I would come up with some AMAZING way to show how our traditions were just as COOL as theirs. The last few days, I started thinking about it a little bit more.... I listened to a webinar with   Emily Ley & Lara Casey   about having a Joyful 2016. They spoke again about how "Comparison is the Thief of Joy". This really resonated with me this week. I need to remind myself to stop waiting to create a new post until it is perfect or meets the expectations in my head of what a beautiful post should look like. I really hope to meet these two incredible women at a Make Things Happen conference someday, but for now I will be reminded by their powerful words of "letti...

Currently {vol.49}

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HI! Welcome to  Currently ! This post series is a great place to share what we are up to and share your post through the link up below. We can make new friends & encourage each other in this thing we call "Life". Please join me!  This is my  49th   week hosting this  Currently  link up, please join me this week or next or the week after, or any time  you can join in, I would Love to hear from you! Sorry for the delay, I am not usually this late with Currently. We have been battling colds at our house & I spent last night in bed and today getting a few things done for Christmas and taking a long nap!  Wishing... you a very Merry Christmas! This is our 2015 Christmas card.  I hope you & your family have a blessed Christmas.  Thinking... about this past week. Last Friday was my last day at the company I had worked at for 11 1/2 years. Change is hard, but change is necessary. After I kick this cold bug, I am looking forward...

Currently {vol.48}

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HI! Welcome to  Currently ! This post series is a great place to share what we are up to and share your post through the link up below. We can make new friends & encourage each other in this thing we call "Life". Please join me!  This is my  48th   week hosting this  Currently  link up, please join me this week or next or the week after, or any time  you can join in, I would Love to hear from you! Thinking... about so many things right now. Big changes going on in my world right now! I will share more later this week, but for now, please say a prayer that I continue to remind myself to have patience & everything will be just fine! via  Watching... my children's Christmas concerts this past week!   My son had his concert on Wednesday afternoon & my daughter had her 1st concert on Wednesday evening. They both did such an amazing job. We are so blessed to have such an amazing music teacher in our school that gets our children so exci...