God brought you here and I’m so freaking stoked about that. Let’s kick this thing off with some fun! Tell me: ☀️Your name 🌈 Your fave color! 🧝‍♀️ Your fave LOTR character! My answers in the comments 🤭 Ready? GO!

What are you all up to? Doing anything fun? ☀️ After we finish our morning farm chores, we are headed to a big ol’ dinner at my parents. My dad is Cajun and he’s an AMAZING cook. I love Easter. I actually love it like, a million times more than Christmas. 🤭 I love the joyful, almost electric anticipation that Spring brings. 🌱All the green unfurling on the branches, and in the grass. 🌸All the blossoms on the trees who are silently yet visibly promising juicy, delicious yummyness in the harvest to come. ☀️ The sweet WARMTH of the sun that feels sooo nice after the deep chill for months of winter. It’s allllllll a-buzz with excitement and joyful hope. For me, it brings realization that even though things are beautiful NOW, your mind and heart are saying “oh man, just wait till summer ☀️” And THAT is what it’s all about in this relationship with our King. ❤️ Because of what He sowed that day on the cross, His kindness, healing and tender mercies are available to us now. We get to walk in abundance. We get to walk in healing and power. It’s available NOW. And even though it’s beautiful, even though we feel the healing and we see the little “blossoms” of change and renewal, We also know it’s producing something INCREDIBLE in us. A harvest we can’t even begin to imagine yet. “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion…” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭1‬:‭6‬ ‭ESV‬‬ He’s not finished with you yet. Your story is still in bloom ☀️ Happy Easter friends! God bless you and your loved ones! -Christina

It would happen before I could even catch myself. Messes from the day closing in around me. And from a GOOD day too. A day of fun, and creation and play with my 4 sweet kiddos, homeschooling and taking care of things here on our little farm.🥹 “Why am I getting overwhelmed by this?” What’s wrong with me? I should be more grateful, but I’m just p*ssed of… why am I like this?” The pressure in the keg already building. I look at the clock, noting my husband will be home soon. Better get my attitude in check and striiiiiiiiiiiive my way out of this crappy feeling. “I don’t like feeling this way, what’s wrong with me? I’m lucky I even have a husband that’s coming home. I need to get my attitude right” And more pressure building even still 🙃 At this point, fight or flight is kicking in and your girl has allllllllwaaaaaaaaays tended toward FIGHT so now, the heat is up and I’m reaching my boiling point. I start seeing the “disorder” and “chaos” and “lack of stewardship” all around me as my mind keys in on “threats to be aware of”…. 👀 The laundry pile. The dust. The freaking SMELL of the garbage can. And holy crap, I look like a wreck! I need to sharpen up before he gets home, why can’t I just do a better job? I start barking orders out of desperation for control, realizing just how much work I still have to do to reach that feeling of “ahhh, I did it! My work is done” and then I catch the expressions on my babies faces… My little loves have that “unsure of what moms gonna do next” look in their eyes and then… BOOM.🌋💥 That’s the final straw. I lose it, I scream at them to clean up or else, I hustle like a frantic insane person and somehow, in chaos and madness get everything just the way I want it before he comes in. But WHY am I doing this???? I’m not actually mad at them. Their expression broke my heart. So i anxiously sort the clutter in my mind like this: The mess is handled. The kids are in order. The overwhelm? I beat it back to the dark where it belongs. I got it done.

Got a “win” that you accomplished today? Focusing on the COOL STUFF you did/experienced in a day is actually good for your brain…So share the cool thing and let’s celebrate eachotha! I’ll GO FIRST! ⬇️⬇️ I got that laundry mountain folded and put away! YOU KNOW THE ONE IM TALKING ABOUT! I know you’ve got one too! 🫣😂 AND! I taught one of my smaller kiddos how to hang her shirts on a hanger. Hooray for “training up a child”!