Wow its been a While, is writing a blog even a thing any more? Well to tel you the truth I forgot about this website until I found it on my Facebook Profile. I though I really never went anywhere with this, but I remember being so excited to share. Although thats how my life seems to go at time action and then no follow through… I call it my mind has way to much in it at any given point in the day. So Let me reintroduced myself to you.

My name is Dana! Most of the things I said in my first introduction are still true today. I live in Southwest Missouri with my Husband of almost 15 years and our 2 boys Cole 12 and Bryce 8. We still live on the small farm , with a few more cows, different chickens due to some predators, and a cat and a Dog named Tut. Sadly our corgi Foxie passed away a few weeks ago.

Some Changed that have happened are that I am still a Nurse but have stepped away from the bedside, I just spent a school year as the Nurse at a small school near me and fully enjoyed every minute of being able to care for them. I am entering new territory……SAHM life (stay at home mom) if your old like me and have to ask my niece what all the letters are! Im loving this summer so far, we have been to the pool several times, and will be going twice this week. We will be traveling to my Grandparents home in Louisiana at the beginning of August for 2 weeks something I haven’t been able to do for 11 years, because of work. Im so excited to take my boys to them just like my mom use to take us for 2 weeks every summer growing up. I look forward to baseball ending and football season starting.

Not only do I get to stay home as a SAHM but I am an online health and fitness coach with Beachbody, I get to help others just like me start on the road to healthy with daily activity and nutrition. I get to be an encouragement to them as they navigate feeling good and like themselves again. I get to still help people like I do in nursing but in a way that is preventative!

Im excited to just share! Im still the mom that is trying to get it all together! Currently I am getting ready to go on a trip with some fellow Coaches for our annual Beachbody Summit that I have never been able to attend due to Covid! Such exciting things coming. I am also working on starting a major declutter of my home, as well as putting systems in place to help it stay that way. What else…… Oh! Im also going to begin budgeting!!! Is it weird that I am kind of excited about that.

I hope that you come along for the ride!

Dana

I feel that I am starting this blog so that I can become more confident in the woman that I am and that I want to be.  I feel that over the last few years that I have lost some of the person that I am.  How does that happen? How do you lose someone you have always been?

I find that the simple answer is life. I don’t feel that I lead a complicate life its fairly simple, but when you start to add things, tasks, and obligations, the complicated starts to creep in.  Its has been an interesting road.  I came to the decision to go to nursing school a few years after we got married.  From then on I feel as if the years following that have been a big blur filled with many experiences, some amazing like having my kids and some sad and enlightening.  But even after all the good things that happen I still find myself walking around in a daze, like you are cut off from the rest of the world.  I sometimes feel like the joy is zapped out of me for no reason at all.  I love my life, my husband, my children, my family.  I would even say that I love my job!  My friends and family probably don’t think I like them, I don’t see them as much as I want or should for that matter.  I really feel like telling them that awful phrase, “It’s not you, it’s me.”.  Frankly at the end of the day I just want to stay home and enjoy doing, well nothing.

Is the problem the fact that I have too much on my plate or the fact that I haven’t been handling it like I should?  My goal is to start seeing the old me, as well as starting to discover who I have yet to become, as a wife, mother and woman. Not one person can tell what is going on in that brain of ours. The key is that we, you and I are not so different.  Real life is not all smiles and happiness, there are struggles, there are times when we are jealous, times when we think what the heck am I doing??

Yet there are so many more times when we can rejoice, smile, encourage, love, and just be a light when one is needed. So many times, I’ve come across a person out there that gives me just what I need at the right time whether its God, family, friends or someone random on social media. Now it’s time to try to be that for someone else.

Thanks for joining me!

Most days I do not look like the photo you see above, most days I’m doing good if I put clean clothes on let alone fix my hair! The picture above is from my nephews wedding a few months ago.

First Let me introduce myself,  I am Dana.  I am first of all a Child of God, a wife, and a mother.  In my spare time I work as an RN, and I am a full time student working on my master’s degree in nursing education.  I have a wonderful husband, we have been married since 2007, we have two wonderful boys and a small farm (nothing fancy), some cows and chickens and a corgi named Foxie!

unlike the photo above my life is not always as put together as it seems, with the help of social media we get to pick and choose what we put in front of people.  My goal with this blog is to make it real.  I will be posting about everything from life, struggles, my favorite things as well as my journey to try to get it all together.  I am not a professional writer by any means, and I am hoping to increase my confidence and ability through this new adventure.

I hope that you come along for the journey!