My day starts by 7am just about everyday. I get up to make my hubby’s lunch and let the dogs outside. I then have about 30-40 minutes of quiet time before I have to wake the boys for school. During that time I normally get caught up on my emails or scroll through Instagram/ Facebook.

After getting the boys up and ready for school we sit and watch cartoons before their bus arrives. Once they are off to school I make breakfast for the baby and myself. From there, let the cleaning begin! I try to get most of it done by lunch so I can TRY to relax until it’s time to make dinner.

Now if I’m being honest this is how MOST of my days go. I do have those days where after sending the kids off to school I just lounge around and binge on TV [these are my favorite kind of days.]

If I’m not cleaning or lounging around you can find me at the grocery store or shopping at TJ Maxx/Home Goods. Of course browsing through all the Rae Dunn lol.

What does your typical day consist of? Are you a busy body or more of a homebody?

If I had the chance to write a letter to my younger self there would be so many things I’d tell her.

First I would remind her to relax and just be you. When I was younger I tried so hard to be perfect. I wanted all the friends, the latest products and obviously all the attention. Looking back now, none of that matters. Being YOU is the best version you could ever be.

I would then go on to tell myself to just live life. Do things — stop being afraid of “what if this happens?” or “will I get hurt?” Take a freaking chance at least once in awhile.

I’d remind her it’s okay to go. Travel, take that drive. Don’t let anyone hold you back. Make decisions yourself and lead the crowd where YOU want to go.

Girl there are so many things you are stressing about right now and you just need to let that crap go! Believe me you have years and years before your life gets tough. These are the golden years that you need to make the best of everything. Stop trying to grow up so fast and enjoy these years of little to none responsibilities.

Your awesome girl!

Love your older self ❤

To be honest I’m both! Even before I had kids I could wake up at the ass crack of dawn or even stay up till the wee hours of the night. I guess it all depends on the type of mood I’m in.

Being a SAHM it seems like these are the only 2 times in the day when I get “mama time.” I use this time to read my book, take a nice hot shower or just sit and enjoy the peace and quiet!

How do you start your day, early morning or late at night? Tell me in the comments below

I just want to start off by wishing you all a great New Year!

I’m not really big on the whole new year, new me thing but for this year I do have some goals I want to work on. First off I want to be more active on Instagram. I feel like once the holidays started I put my insta life on the back burner 《not saying that’s a bad thing》I just want to continue to grow my account.

I would like to get more organized and have things planned out a little more. My house needs decluttered — so if you have any storage hacks let me know in the comments below! I’m going to TRY to start using a daily planner as my checklist throughout the day. So it would be nice to plan out a weeks worth of meals and and chores, but hey let’s not get too ahead lol.

These will be my focus this year. Did you make any New Year resolutions?

With a family of 5 it gets pretty hard finding things that everyone will eat. I tend to stress way to much on who’s eating what.

Of course we have a picker eater that only eats chicken nuggets or anything pizza so those are his go to’s.

For the rest of us our go to menu would consist of tacos, [chicken, steak or beef/sometimes all 3 lol] or spaghetti — with my mother-in-law’s homemade spaghetti sauce.

Sometimes it seems like we have the same things every week but we are okay with that because I know they will be happy with full bellies from the things they really want, with hardly anything going to waste!