Hello Angel Rose

I hope I don’t forget the way your wrist had rolls. Or the way you use my opposite breast as a footrest when you eat. I hope I remember your curiosity and sense of calm when around you. Because Nayvah Rose, knowing your for 9 months has been a dream 🖤#findjoyintheordinary

𝗜 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆⁣ ⁣ Becoming a mother demanded me to face my own past with my own mother. Not everyone gets giddy to write sweet words in a pink Mother’s day cards. Not everyone has words flowing out of them when the day rolls around, Or can throw words into a page when that Sunday in May rolls through. ⁣ ⁣ For some all you can say is “thank you”. If that was you, let me be the one to tell you that it’s okay! ⁣ ⁣ I’ve been there. I’ve been the girl wishing that my mother/daughter relationship was different. I’ve been the wife/mom not asking for emotional advice or support. If that is YOU, you are not alone. ⁣ ⁣ What I have found to be true over and over again is that for where a lack might be God longs to fill it. In the very place of your motherlessness, He will provide. Because when you start looking at the Provider, you end up seeing the Provision.

Glancing out and seeing that in two days we breaking out of this joint 🙌🏾 Also it’s Friday! Also we had the best kind of day together. 🥰 Share with your TOP 5 emojis used this stay at home order!! My friend text me hers and I doubled over !! Mine are: 🤦🏾‍♀️🖤😳🤷🏾‍♀️🤪

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 = 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!⁣ ⁣ First: I want to get to know YOU! What is one thing that is a requirement in your house currently?? GO! Hi! I’m Angel and reading is a hobby and dancing with my kids daily is a household requirement. 🙌🏾🥳 I live in Kansas with my college sweetheart and our two babes. In the past year I’ve made a mission to help women find the ordinary as EXTRAordinary daily. To find the joy in the mundane. Staying at home is normally my jam and currently the hardest part of my day is just before naptime 🤪 Go figure! ⁣

Have you ever told your toddler to make themselves breakfast? 😳🤪 I gained five more minutes of sleep to wake up to this! #Worthit 🙌🏾 I am so excited to have partnered with @cheerios I love how truly versatile Cheerios are for both toddlers but all babies alike. They truly are the 100% whole grain oat cereal made for the whole family! #sponsored

"𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥" A few weeks ago a friend asked me to define beauty. And for a moment that phrase, I am not beautiful ran through my head. The number on the scale, the jean size, the setbacks in business. It’s easy to choose what defines beauty to you because the world is ready to tell you if you are willing to listen. Yet when I sat still I was able to define beauty. Because my perspective will run over into hers. Beauty to me is transparency. They go hand in hand. I use to think beauty was my weight, my hair, my clothing, or the color of my skin. When I let go of thinking that beauty was something I could “𝐟𝐢𝐭” myself into was when I saw beauty for what it truly was. Security in my identity and letting my entire being and emotions flow from that place. I hope my Nayvah doesn’t have to take years to learn that beauty can be found in the eyes of her Savior staring back at her and calling her into her destiny.’ I hope that while you’re sitting in your sweats or leggings for the 10 days in a row, the toddler is melting and the menu is “whatever you can find”, you see your beauty for what it is. (And for what it’s not)

𝗪𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐁𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄!!!! ⁣ ⁣ You have no idea how long we’ve waited for this day, and to be honest, we thought it would take us a lot longer, but praise our Lord! ⁣ Our journey started in 2018 when we were paycheck to paycheck. So when my husband came home in March of 2019 saying he was unexpectantly let go, while I was five months pregnant, we were thrown. One of my good friends and her husband had just finished the @daveramsey class and there was another start again in the fall. Come September we signed up for Financial Peace University class at our church. ⁣ ⁣ FPU changed our perspective on money and its use. We both became intense and even moved out of our 2400 square foot house into a two-bedroom apartment to save money and pay more to debt faster! We even sold the TV!! This sacrificed a lot and said no to even more. ⁣ ⁣ ✨We started our journey in September 2019, and 7 months later (Including a new career pivot for Jarrod), growing an online business, a move with a toddler and 4 week-old-baby, and a lot of delayed gratification, 30.5k gone, we are debt-free and never going back. 🙌🏾🙌🏾

✨𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫: It’s Thursday April 16th You are doing great with what has been handed to you. So keep on keeping on!! 🖤 And if you need a boost this week- check out my 4-day blast highlight for an encouragement boost to your inbox!

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲!! 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭?!? ⁣🤷🏾‍♀️ We got dressed (in something other than house jammies), went for our first walk of the day, and did crafts.... all before 10am 🤪⁣ Run over to my stories, where I am sharing how we are choosing to be intentional with our weekends so they feel special even while we are at home! I hope it’s super helpful to make this very different season still a special one for you and your family!

Finding the joy here in the small and mundane things. Things like a fresh sourdough starter in the corner, a boy who enjoys getting creative and crafty daily, a napping baby, a home and jobs for us both. Choosing to see joy today instead of what we have to “deal with”. What are you choosing to be grateful for today?! I want to see so I can be grateful with YOU 🥰

Quarantine diaries:⁣ 1. Stayed home ⁣ 2. Hung out with the kids on our deck ⁣ 3. Only went out to the grocery store⁣ 4. Switched the kids into one room 🤪😳🥱⁣ 5. Stayed in our living until we went to bed 🤣⁣ Peace out March ✌🏾

H O M E: the place we have always been living but now are forced to be. Why don’t we want to be home? Does it force us to see what we have been avoiding? Not just the dirty dishes in the corner that have long been forgotten. But the relationship that could use more time and effort. The harden heart toward in an area. The child that needs more “something”. Whether it be time, instruction, or discipline. This place we live is a place that forces us to be our truest selves. It’s the four walls where we ask hard questions. Maybe we don’t like it not because who we are forced to be with or where we are being asked not to go. Maybe it’s because we have to be with ourselves for a while. May this time at home be one that refines us and molds us. So when we return to “normal” life, we no longer look like the same normal people we once were.

Any attempt to remove this girl from our bed and into her own has been thwarted by her peaceful stubbornness. 🤪Figured I’d would capture her in her natural habit because her crib is sitting in the corner, currently unused. 😆

Friday should always have mandatory sunshine because it’s just that good for the soul. What is your “cleaning day” round your house? Mine is Friday because Saturday I want every minute of time to do whatever and not do chores 😆Rolled up our selves and did a deep clean and organization of the house. This place feels lighter already with less clutter and junk. Happy Friday!! ☀️