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Me• Random• Summer

Oh Hai There

What up tho?!!

Nothing much shangalanging in the A for us but house hunting. Like obsessed with it. This process is so exhausting but I know the perfect house is out there…I hope. Check out the house hunting vlog if you need the most recent developments on our house situation. *longest sigh ev.er*

The kids haven’t managed to kill me yet but we are just two weeks into summer vacay. However RIP to the grocery bill. I mean, these folks just eat all day but I got something for them next week.

My stepdaughter goes to camp, cause a moody preteen around the house all day is no fun, but neither is shelling out $400 a month when I’m home all day…..I digress.

Moving on.

We found our way to the Children’s Museum on Tuesday and the little ones had a ball. Wore me out. They have an awesome exhibit running from now to September. If you are in the Atlanta area I recommend you take your children.

Thank you all for hanging in there with these sponsored posts. Y’all do know whenever we find a house it will need paint, curtains, mortgage payments… I appreciate y’all. I really do.

We have been on strict spending privileges…read if it isn’t a necessity it’s not being bought and quietly it hasn’t been so bad. Saving is a hard habit to get into but when you start seeing that bank account on swole the game changes.

Other than that I’ve been laying as low as I can chilling. What’s up with you? What’s good in your hood?

Oh, I did post this from my iPhone. Any errors, charge it to the game.

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Me• Mimi• Vlog

I’m Vlogging– It’s Mimi’s World. A Day in the Life

So I blame YouTube. I have been on there watching those “Day in the Life” vlogs and I am smitten with them.

Like why?!! I suppose we are so nosy and really want to know how people really live…or may it’s just me. I’m not really there for the ones where people are all dolled up for the simplest of things cause I don’t believe people really get fab to go everywhere…again maybe I should speak for myself.

Well in the event some of you all want to see me in another dimension I’ve decided to possibly add a vlog series called It’s Mimi’s World. We’ll see.

Be nice and subscribe to my channel please. I would hate to be lugging this camera around for no good reason.

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Life• Me• Sanity

Lemonade?

So when life throws you lemons, the general consensus is you should be catching these small round objects whilst ducking to avoid getting hit from others that are undoubtedly being hurled at you. In the midst of bobbing, and weaving please add in squeezing, and the pouring in of sugar and water. Don’t forget to carefully stir all of these ingredients together in a nice southern inspired glass pitcher fit for a wrap around porch in the heat of summer.

On a good day I’m all about wetting your whistle with the sweet tartness that makes all well on a hot summer day. However, on today I feel like emptying all of the lemonade that I’ve made into a super soaker and having target practice.

I. AM. TIRED.

See the thing with faith is those days come when you truly want to throw in the towel and admit defeat. Today is that day. The past few months have been a true roller coaster ride and I’m sure we all know when we’ve hit that rock bottom, that throw your hands in the air moment and I’m not talking about waving them around like you just don’t care in the party sense..but very much so in the literal.

These past few weeks have proven to be a challenge in the worse kind of way. This house situation has consumed me for the past year and the place where we are now offers up a whole ‘nother level of risk and reward. I promise to share more later in the week but today I just cried and needed to come here to my virtual couch to sit and have a chat.

In return for being such gracious listeners, can I offer you a glass of lemonade, I sure have a lot of it to go around. I’m pretty sure at this point putting it in a water gun and going to town will be the equivalent of pumping 6 oz of breastmilk and knocking the bottle over. I know about this.

I would rather give you some refreshment, read encouragement. If I’m still pressing you should to.

By the way, I’m offering you a glass of good, wholesome southern lemonade…cause I know nothing about the Mike’s Hard variety. Nothing.

How you doin’?

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Life• Me• Random

Let’s Catch Up

Hey!

I feel like this post will be like that moment when you finally sit down to have drinks and dinner with your girl after a long hiatus of not speaking regularly.

*waits for you to order your food and drink*

Giiiiirl. Things have been crazy to say the least.

So, the baby is slowly entering the treacherous threes and refuses to wear anything but a frilly dress or tutu without a major melt down

My blood pressure was spiraling out of control so I finally decided to lace my running shoes back up and within just two weeks my blood pressure is averaging 120/88. Still need to work on the bottom number but at least I got started. I’ve been drinking a ton of water and wouldn’t you know these old creaky knees haven’t been bothering me at all. Water really is a ~~nasty~~ cure all. I have been reminded that I truly love running and it feels good to be back on the pavement…now to stay there. A half marathon is on my bucket list so I am training for the Thanksgiving Day half marathon. I should be ready by then. In the meantime I plan to run a few 5K and 10K races to keep me motivated.

…or a dog is chasing you! This is my motto as I’m striving for a 10 min mile

Well, they cancelled the contract on the home we were building and instead of waiting on the paperwork we needed to reinstate it we decided to continue looking for a new home and we came up on our dream home. Like the home I always envisioned. Before we were slightly settling but moving into this home would make me feel like I settled for nothing and that all the past drama was just leading us to the perfect home. We put in a contract today. We have to wait until Wednesday at the latest to see if it is accepted. There is a little bit of drama with it as we don’t think it will appraise for the selling price, so we attached a love letter to hopefully encourage them to honor the contract and sell us the home for the appraised value in the event it is lower than the offered price.

I’m pretty sure I am going back to work. After much deliberation I have decided to possibly start looking for work with a long list of must haves. One being I must be able to work from home. Wish me luck, and if you know of anything holla at ya girl!!

I haven’t been blogging as much because I have been asking God to provide me with the ability to make steady income while not jeopardizing my ability to be available to my family. We have decided there is no need for both of us to run the hamster wheel and if I go back to work I need to be at home. What I realized is that I am asking for a promotion but I haven’t mastered the basics and that is putting my family ahead of everything, everyday. So now I have to take care of them and my home first and blogging has been getting put on the back burner as I struggle to balance both. I think I have finally found my groove so I can start back posting and commenting regularly. I may be visiting some of your virtual homes rather late at night so leave the porch light on…K?!

I am trying to line up activities for the summer. I can’t even believe that there is just over a month left in school. I promise it seems like it was just the first day of school.

My son is doing really good with baseball. I know I mentioned how worried I was about him in the beginning but he is really shining. We did get the private lessons and they have indeed paid off. I think he has truly found a sport that he likes.

I guess that’s all for now. What’s good in your hood?!!

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