CATCHING UP ON THE WEEKEND | CHITCHAT

I feel like every Monday I say "I can't believe it's already Monday.." blah blah blah. But for real... I swear, the older I get, the more I realize how fast time goes by.... wait.... FLIES by. 

I went out yesterday to get groceries and they already had stuff for Halloween - LIKE WHA?! I know stores want to get ahead start and all but dag on! And then I got the itch to check out Pottery Barn Kids halloween costumes *just to see* and whadaya know - HALLOWEEN COSTUMES GALORE. I better step my mom-game up because I know the one I spotted will sell out by next week at this rate... I need to stay up on these things cause moms out in these streets don't play.

Secondly, next weekend is my dance competition... I feel like I'm a celebrity from Dancing with the actual freakin' stars with as much as I've practiced this damn routine in the last 6 months. Most important: I will be so happy when this is over - although it's been a fun experience (truthfully), it's been pretty demanding as far as schedule goes. Edit: Now I sound like I haven't had fun lol I totally have and I'm super happy to be doing this for charity, which makes the demanding schedule so worth it, I think it's my nerves are starting to get to me!
Second most important thing: I have a new-found respect for dancers... It isn't my thing per say but I definitely respect the demand it takes to actually put together a routine, practice it and then execute it flawlessly because after all, you only get one shot to do it right and TRUST ME, it ain't easy, y'all.... I'm just sitting over here praying I don't fall off of the stage, trip or forget a step while they're over there literally flipping each other all over the place blindfolded (not really, but they could) while looking flawlessly elegant.

And this may be the most important thing of all: I CLEANED MY ENTIRE HOUSE THIS WEEKEND. Seriously... Deep, deep, DEEP cleaned. Go on, run your finger behind my TV with a white cotton glove - or actually don't cause I forgot to clean that but I can say that if you have a dog allergy you can come hangout at my house because I swear there's no trace that they even exist besides their need to be let out... oh and fed. That's important too.

Here are a few pics from this weekend - 

The BIGGEST Hydrangeas I've ever seen. Fav!

Nothing to see here, I just have a thing for skies in the AM :)

Just wanted to update y'all on our weekend and little bit of our life because I haven't been able to do that lately - which is a good thing and a bad thing - my blog is growing (good thing!) but it sort of removes the reason why I started it in the first place || but I'm slowly getting the hang of it all and my new venture in life... Rome wasn't built in a day ;)

xx, tbp

Easy like Sunday morning....

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I've truly been blessed by the kind and thoughtful words of others. Other times, not so much. The quote, "You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world and there's still going to be somebody that hates peaches." Will apply at some point in everyones life. It has mine. I believe I found the key to that phrase though: If you're doing what you love, it won't even matter anyway.
No matter if you're doing what you love or you're with the person you love, if you truly have a passion for it/them, any negative words will leave you as quickly as they arrived.
That really took me a long time to figure out because when I first started blogging, I figured that everybody would have the same fire that I had for the content that I shared... Not always.

So what makes this whole thing worth it? Pretty simple: I absolutely love sharing my life, my home, tips, pictures, etc. because that's who I am. A wife, a mom, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a granddaughter, a friend and even stranger (to some), whose main goals are support and motivate others.
 I think that that may be lost in in some of the readers eyes sometimes. Maybe because the pictures are pretty, my daughter isn't being messy or crying, my husband is still smiling even while taking his millionth blog pic with me. But aren't there always two sides? My daughter is two. She's not a unicorn (even though she'd like to be)... She cries, has bad days, colors on my freshly painted walls, spills food and takes a nap without even thinking twice about the mess she made in our living room just 10 minutes before. I also have a husband that owns his own business and works his butt off 24 hours, 7 days a week. Oh and to top it off, I have two dinosaurs for dogs. A German Shepherd and a Golden Retriever. We splurged on hardwood floors in hopes of keeping the dog hair down but in reality, I get to sweep our entire downstairs daily. But remember the peaches reference? See why all the bad is actually outweighed by good is because I have a daughter that we love more than all the seashells. She's smart.. sometimes too smart for her own good. She's ambitious and independent... All of the qualities that we prayed she would take from us. I also have a husband that's dedicated to our family, would do anything for us and loves us more than the world. And you can't forget our two dogs - The loyalty that they have for me, Devon and Penelope is seriously remarkable.
Those things are what matter most in my life. Everything else falls after that. Trust me.


 "..Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that."

Choose to love. Choose to be loved. And always love in return.

Happy Sunday, y'all

xx, tbp

WELCOME - again.....

     As  I'm sure you've already noticed; Welcome to my "new" blog :) I have been trying to decide on a new name for this place for awhile now... and I think I have narrowed it down HALLELUJAH!