Barefoot in the Pink

Merry Christmas 🎄

May Christ fill your homes with peace and joy this Christmas season!

Santa got me a roomba so I’m feeling a lot of joy right now 😅🙏🥰🎄

Us women are really good at:

👉🏻telling our husbands what to do
👉🏻telling them how to do things
👉🏻telling them why were right and they’re wrong
👉🏻telling them how they need to act and what they need to say
👉🏻what time they need to be places
👉🏻how they need to drive
👉🏻what they need to do at work to succeed

The list goes on….

But if you find that you’re this type of person (tbh, most of us women are) and that your marriage is not where you want it to be and that your husband is angry a lot.

Well… I’m here to tell you, it may not be him, and it may actually be you.

Your husband hates being controlled. Maybe he takes it really well and you don’t notice. But he hates it.

Something that can strengthen your marriage and make it more peaceful is:

Holding. Your. Tounge.

Ladies, I know it’s so hard. I’m the first one that will admit that. But giving up my controlling attitude has produced such abundant fruit. Instead of telling my husband what to do, I try to use language that is trusting instead. Such as:

I trust you.
Whatever you think.
You’re doing a great job.
You’re so smart!

Try it out and tell me about the fruit it’s producing 🙌

More thoughts 😘

Monday morning ponderings

*please don’t take this out of context, I know and realize that some sins are far worse than others, however when you focus on your own, you will have so much more peace in your marriage.*

Such a lovely weekend spent with my two pregnant sisters. So excited to add another 2 babies to the clan!

Motherhood is where selfishness dies.

I’m currently holding a sick 2 month old who can’t sleep or breathe unless he’s upright due to his cold. If this is you too, you’re not alone ❤️.

This year was a new level up for me. I’ve never had so little sleep, I’ve never dealt with so much crankiness and tears (both from the toddler and newborn), and I’ve never felt so close to a breakdown without actually having one.

There has been so many days in the last couple of months where I’ve thought “I can’t do this anymore”. Yet, by the grace of God, I’m still doing it.

I have been learning more than ever before to offer up my suffering so that God may use it for some good. This is what’s so amazing about the Christian life… no suffering has to be wasted. United to the cross, it can help you and others become more like Christ.
Having this at the forefront of my mind when I’m so utterly exhausted makes the suffering just a little more tolerable.

Not every mother will choose to embrace the suffering and die to self for their children, but I believe that if we embrace motherhood in its fullness, it’s the perfect path to helping us women become holy.

So happy Mother’s Day to all the tired mammas out there who are doing the difficult work for their families ❤️ you are priceless.

Mindset change-

You know when I started exercising more?
When I started approaching it with “do I want to be happy and feel better about myself today?”

Instead of

“Ugh, I’ve gained a lot of weight in pregnancy and I’d like to lose it but it’s so much work”

Try switching your thoughts and let me know if it works for you!

You can do it, mama, you’re worth it and will feel so much better ❤️

When I’m craving chocolate, need more protein, and trying to eat healthy:

**also great for if your kiddo ever goes through a phase of hating eggs - mine did**

Immersion blend it all together in a pot and then slowly heat up:

2 cups milk
1 egg yolk (trust me you won’t taste it)
2 tablespoons of coco
2 tsp Honey
1 tablespoon collagen (I get mine here > http://www.perfectsupplements.com/?Click=62b1e3ed6cdcf
A pinch of sea salt
A pinch of cinnamon

Blend that all up and enjoy 😉

If your days consist of changing diapers, feeding little mouths, trying to make time to brush your teeth, washing dishes, and then offering it all to our good Jesus, then you’re doing the good work ❤️

Life with babies is hard. You almost become like a cloistered nun or a kind of hermit for awhile. Leaving the house is often too difficult or not possible so you stay inside your four walls trying to take care of the little ones you’re responsible for. You long to go outside or to do something else while simultaneously loving your life.
You cry because the time is moving too fast and then you cry because the time is moving too slow.

It’s a difficult journey to be on but never doubt that it’s bearing much fruit ❤️

Welcome to the church my sweet boy ❤️.

Gabriel got baptized on this beautiful sunny day today!

Feeling So grateful that we get to give our children the gift of faith from the very beginning of their lives. Some people will tell you that you should let your children “choose for themselves” when they get older. But just as we choose what they eat, where they go to school, what they learn, how they’re disciplined, we will also choose their religion because we are their parents.
We have the great responsibility to show our children what is right and what is wrong. To lessen their confusion and not to increase it.

So happy baptism day Gabriel ❤️. May you always love Christ above everything!

William is slowly warming up to his brother ❤️.


Never mind toys, a beautiful house, even a farm with lots of animals.. I believe that one of the greatest gifts you can give your children is the gift of siblings.

I have always said that my 2 greatest blessings growing up were being raised in the faith and being raised with 8 other siblings.

I know that it can be hard to be open and generous with your fertility sometimes… I only have two kids so I can’t imagine having 9 😳. But I promise you that your children will thank you one day and that God will bless you for your sacrifice in being open and generous.

My sisters are some of my best friends and I can’t imagine life without them ❤️

When I was in labour with Gabriel I had a moment where I started to cry and become super overwhelmed at the thought of having two babies.

Questions like “how will I love two of them? Won’t I love Gabriel less? Or will I love William less?” flooded my mind.

But the last few days of having these two have shown me that, as a parent, your love is multiplied. I find that I actually love William more then I used to, and I love Gabriel just as much. My heart has truly been stretched and now I can’t imagine my life any other way.