Being Normal.

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A Life Spent.

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -George Bernard Shaw

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Your “Why”

‘Your WHY is what drives your passion, that gets you out of bed in the morning. It’s your reason for living, it’s what makes you want more for yourself and your family. When you figure that out, you will become UNSTOPPABLE.” -Tara Cancilla

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Mothers.

My Mom sent this to me on Facebook today. Touched my heart because I know that this is the way I feel for my daughter and in return it’s how my Mom feels for me. I love my Mom so much, I can’t even put into words the amount of love and gratitude I have for her and her place in my life. I thank God for allowing us to be a family and I am so thankful to have her as my Mom for Eternity.

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Tara

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The 4 Hour WorkWeek.

Listening to the Audio : “The 4 Hour Work Week” by Timothy Ferriss. This is such an awesome book.

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Shepard’s Pie.

My version of a childhood favorite, Shepard’s Pie.

My mom made this dish when I was younger, well and still to this day. She would make it with mash potatoes, beef, cream of mushroom soup, cheese and green beans.

I wanted to make this dish but didn’t have certain ingredients so I just made it my own and here it is.

Brown Rice

Cream of Mushroom Soup

Ground Turkey

Cheese

That’s it. Don’t let it fool you, it’s packed with MEGA flavor.

Directions:

Cook your Rice, brown your Turkey and heat up your Soup.

In a baking dish put a thin layer of soup on the bottom, this helps so it doesn’t stick to the bottom. Put Brown Rice in the dish. I mix my Turkey in with my Cream of Mushroom Soup and pour over Rice. Then take your favorite kind of cheese or cheeses and sprinkle as much as you like. Put in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until your cheese is melted and starting to brown. Let cool, serve and enjoy

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Ginger Rogers.

“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.”

-Faith Whittlesey

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I Believe.

“I believe in the best possible outcome in every situation”

As I’ve wrote before my anxiety this past year had been extremely high. I found this affirmation to repeat daily to help ease the anxiety. I’ll say it 3-4 times if I need to and by the time I’m done the stress seems to go away for a little bit and I can breathe again.

Life is hard and throws us curve balls. It’s not about what happens to us but how we react and move forward that helps us grow.

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Decision.

“Some people have a decision to make today…they have $100 and many will spend it on the latest electronic gadget, clothes, restaurants, etc. or others will take that $100 and use it as a ‘seed’ to produce a harvest. If you decide to hold on to that $100 or to spend it on liabilities, it may be the very thing holding you back from living a more abundant life. So, DECIDE to invest in yourself and in your future.”

-Brody Stockwell.

You are in control of your life, you deserve to have the best life, life can give. If you are looking for a change or something different, lets talk.

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Anxious Mommy.

Any Anxious Mommies out there? I know I’m one of them. While I was pregnant I lost two extremely close family members about a month in a half apart. I don’t know if it was because of the emotions and hormones of being pregnant or if it really caught me off guard, but since then my anxiety has been sky high.

Being a first time mom I know anxiety is just something that comes with the role, I mean its something I’ve never done before, I’m not close to family and babies don’t come with a manual. Of course it’s normal to be anxious. I’m also a stay at home mom and sometimes being home all day can just make it that much worse.

I have been procrastinating about doing any type of action steps to start getting through it. Fear can be very paralyzing and if you let it eat at you the harder it comes to face it.

Yesterday I said ENOUGH! I’m sick of living like this. I hate that my heart races when even the thought of leaving my child with anyone to babysit. It has nothing to do with other people as it does to myself. I took a step today, and it felt good.

My husband and I have a gym membership and they have a daycare. I’ve been in and checked them out a couple of months ago but just couldn’t bring my daughter in. Until today! My husband, I and our daughter went to the gym and guess what? It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, I didn’t freak out, Kaili’a had such a good time and I was able to work out with my husband and it felt good to let go.

Driving to the gym I thought I was going to throw up but after I handed Kaili’a over and walked out of the “kid center” doors I felt relieved. It feels amazing to take the first step in over coming a fear or weakness. It wasn’t easy but you know what? I needed to do it.

Some people might not think its a very big deal but to me it was a break through. You never know what people are going through or why they are hesitate to do certain things. Be patient and take the time to understand someone, especially if you are trying to help them progress.

p.s. My husband says he’s not worried or anxious. Yet he was the one spying on our daughter while she was at the “kids center”

I hope this speaks to those first time moms and dads that might be anxious, worried or whatever it is you are struggling with. You are not alone, talk to someone because I can just about promise you others are going through something similar. None of us are perfect and we all learn differently.

Thank you for reading,

“Live Life todaybecause yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.”

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Getting into Everything.

Baby girl is getting into Everything now a days. All of a sudden out of no where she grabs ahold of something and up she goes. I couldn’t believe my eyes, how did she learn to pull herself up and stand there. I can not believe how much she progresses each and everyday. She will just watch me sometimes, very closely, like she is analyzing my every move trying to see how she can copy what I am doing.

Luckily I am packing a bunch of stuff because we are about to move so a lot of my stuff is in boxes. When we get to our new place I’m going to have fun with re-baby proofing the house

If you are a new mom, watch out for month 6, that’s when it all starts. First the rolling over starts and then it starts something new every couple of weeks. Don’t take your eye off your baby for a second because before you know it, one day they are struggling to roll over and then you can’t keep up with them they are moving so fast. Now if you are a been there done that mom, don’t laugh at us first moms

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Every situation.

“Every situation is a positive situation, if viewed, as an opportunity for growth and self mastery.”

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Every Woman needs…

“Every Woman needs a man that will ruin their lipstick and not their mascara.”

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Texture

Kaili’a, my almost 8 month old Loves textured food and is obsessedwith chewing. I’ve got tons of baby food and I got creative so that she would still eat it.

Breakfast time I feed her 1 Jar of Fruit (she’s in love with Pears right now), 1-2 Tbs of cereal (lately I’ve been using oats instead of rice), 1/2 a banana. When I make this for her she will eat it so fast I can hardly believe it. She loves the texture of what the cereal does and loves the chewiness of the smashed banana.

I am so glad she loves this type of food.

For dinner she eats veggies with cereal and then I’ll smash rice into it to get the chewiness.

Maybe this will help you and your adventurous eater

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Single phrase

Leadership

A leader needs to know his strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or as a physician knows the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths – and can call on the right strength at the right time. This explains why there is no definitive list of characteristics that describes all leaders.

-”Strengths based leadership” by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie

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Quote for Women!

Found this on Pinterest the other day and it just fit so perfectly with a church lesson we were discussing the other week. President Uchtdorf is so amazing I love anything he says. He speaks from the heart and is just so down to earth, I feel he is so relatable to the nowadays Latter Day Saints! Even if we are not the same Religion this is still something us as women should believe for ourselves. We should have that confidence that we are Royalty no matter our background. We all have it in us to be Incredibly Amazing, we just have to have faith in ourselves and go.

Most of the time the biggest thing that stop us from reaching our greatest self is ourselves. We are the ones that can put us down and stop us dead in our tracks or we can lift ourselves up and fly beyond anything we could ever imagine. You deserve to have the life you want. Are you living the Reality you want to be living? Or are you just wasting time away just doing nothing? You are the ONLY person that can change it, because you will only do what you want to do.

I believe in you and so should you. Start living your life the way you want to, you deserve to be HAPPY! So let us be role models for other women and start now! I’m living the life I want to, are you?

Make yourself a priority! Make sure you are taking care of yourself and not just everyone around you, yes it can be hard but we need to do it. If we are happy, the better mothers (wives, sisters, friends, daughters) we are to others. How can we take care of everyone else if we don’t take care of ourselves.

BE HAPPY~SMILE~ENJOY

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Love this!

A huge part of my personality is wanting to be right ALL OF THE TIME. Just ask my husband how many times I have to be right about something lol wait, no don’t ask him.

Being wrong can make some people worry about being judged. I am working on that part of myself, it is okay to be wrong so that we can grow. I found this quote and just had to share!

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