Be Wild and Free

  Oh my goodness, y'all! No matter how much I try to bottle up time, slow it down or even pause it for a little bit, it never works! A year ago I was in that space of in-between, waiting for the day our little one was going to grace us Earthside. We were Team Green and the anticipation of meeting this little babe was growing by the day! If you saw my blog post from January 19, 2023 ( HERE ) you can read a post I made on January 19, 2022 when I was 38.1 and hoping for a full two weeks left.  A whole year has gone by since that incredible, redeeming birth and I'm so excited to FINALLY share it with you all, here on my blog!  If you'd like to read my other birth stories:  Bentley  a first-time mom induction resulting in a c-section Bailey  a redeeming, empowered hospital VBAC  Barrett  a peaceful, unhindered HBAC For those who love a good birth video, here is Badrick's birth video made by Kristen Gruell Photography! You can find Kristen on Facebook ,...

I wrote this back in June 2022 but, until now, I couldn't bring myself to post it... If you've been reading my most recent posts, you know that I've revived my blog. I'm in the middle of various projects and God has so many ideas and inspirations swirling around in my head. Me being me, I have to take it one step at a time in order to stay organized and complete anything. With that said, I've been working in the nooks and crannies of my day to mesh my two blogs together. This particular blog is my original. The blog that started it all. It's such a beautiful rendition of a big chunk of my life before the passing of my first husband and for the sake of having everything in one spot, I've been working on bringing over the dozen or so posts I had posted on my previous doula website from 2016-2018 before God asked me to lay down my birth work to focus on my family.  My original doula website has been inactive since 2018. It was time for a whole new rebranding. I...

I found it fitting this morning as I went through the memories within my Facebook, as I do most mornings. It's a quiet reflection I like to take each morning after my quiet time with God. I've been stepping off social media a bit more this week to gain clarity, gain some organization within my thoughts and attempting to declutter my brain a bit more.  While I browsed my memories this morning, this post I curated a year ago today popped up. I was 38.1 weeks pregnant with our little Baby Sunflower. Which, now that I think about it, I never shared his birth story here yet...  Anyways. I was 38.1 weeks along this day last year (2022) and praying to make it to 40.1 weeks to have a 2-2-22 baby... pretty cool date, huh?! In all my pregnancies, I never had that opportunity for a "cool birthdate" baby. I was dealing with a lot of insomnia. Praying a lot in the depths of the night while the older four children slept peacefully. Spending quiet time with the tiny human within my ...