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Those golden hour, pumpkin patch, pineapple hat kisses are the best though.

I woke up this morning to this thought, literally yelling in my head: STOP CHASING, and seek me in silence.
@bobgoff quits something every Thursday. I want that. I want to find peace in the ordinary and stop chasing more. More money. More acceptance. More understanding. I don’t need more. I need to sit still and listen.
I made a big decision last week in the midst of strong emotion (which you should never do) to step away from something that I believed to be giving me life. But in fact, I was just chasing something I thought was more.
And since then, I’ve been sitting more still than I have in the last 12 months, and have actually DONE MORE. More JoJos out the door. More time with my family. More reading of crime novels and more kisses on my husband. I had been chasing something that I in fact already had. I was just too busy running and catching my breath to actually look to my right to see Him, jogging peacefully right along side me.
#forgetthefeed #coffee

How I feel about having a Prime badge on our JoJo listing on @amazon? Hurry up and package more JoJos because WHOA.
But really. It’s not as easy as you may think to get that pretty blue and yellow smiley face on your product listing. It’s even harder if you are adamant that you touch and kiss each and every JoJo that gets sent out our door.
It’s been so important to me to be sure that every family that puts their trust in us and our product gets the best care possible. Which means I’ve hand packed every JoJo myself and and handed it off to the UPS man myself.
Whether you order off Amazon or off my site or text me for a local pick up, I’m proud to say, your JoJo is a part of my everyday and now it will be a part of yours.
And now, you can get it Prime AND in a carry case because, #goals.

Simple photo. Deep thoughts.
This upcoming week is a weird one and I’m taking a big long moment to drink this in.
Unless you’re one of the three people I spontaneously cancelled on this last week - you don’t know this. But we had a somewhat intense but predicted loss in the family this month. And it has been a little bit shifting and a lot of perspective gaining. Unfortunately, family loss is not something we are unfamiliar with so we have the strength gained from more than a few experiences to navigate this. However, the loss is not easy and something that weighs incredibly heavy in us. We are celebrating this life this week and we are trying to be ever-present so we can be undistracted while we are with family.
As far as normal life goes, we are waiting to hear from some very amazing retailers about carrying the JoJo and I can’t help but have nerves. We are also launching a collab with @honeybook this Wednesday and I want to be prepared, but you know currently, I’m not even close.
Finally, @amazon if you could get your act together, that would be fab.
Joey and I are sitting here in a very quiet house watching some very innocent Pooh Bear and singing “I am a little black rain cloud...” while I rub his tummy and he stokes my arm. All the while mentally preparing from what is sure to be an emotional, draining and closing week of a chapter that has been long anticipated.

It’s been a little bit of a rough week around these parts. Lots of ups and downs and frankly, I’m not sad that tomorrow starts a new week.
It became incredibly apparent to me this week how much our children feed off our energy, and after more than a few Joey meltdowns over things he normally lets slide, I knew I needed to get my game face back on.
We are spending the day packing JoJos because it’s my way of physically manifesting a week of sending JoJos out the door to more families.
Choosing to not let the downs keep me down 👍🏼

Oh, did you think California was having fall? Gotcha.
Shorts and poke bowls for the win on yet another 90 degree day in Nor Cal.

To be two and in love.

California pumpkin patch. 92 degrees and sunny with a chance of dried corn.
Don’t forget the pineapple hat and flip flops and sunnies and Capri Suns.

It’s so easy to give up. And we are not strong enough to muster up the motivation all on our own to keep going.
We have to search for it. Search for the strength in other places. If we rely solely on our own strength to motivate us to conquer, we will sadly fail.
That strength must come from our tribe. Our God. Books and therapists and parents and the innocence of our children. The weight of continuing is not meant to be carried all alone.
Personally, I’ve been feeling more alone than anything else. I hide behind the screen or under baggy clothes or beneath the covers in an effort to portray a sense of “having it all together.”
It’s a new season of working from home and working without a big team and keeping my ideas close to my chest. I’m feeling eternally grateful for those who know the tightly grasped secrets, and lure them out for the world to see and hear and feel for themselves.
Let them go. Let your strength be distributed among other shoulders too. You will carry so much more valuable weight as a tribe than you can ever carry by yourself.

I said to Adam the other day, “I want to redo college. I’d do college so much better now. I’d have way more fun.”
Here’s the thing. I DO NOT want to feel like this about the first years of my life as a mom. I don’t want to want to redo them so I have more fun. I want to have all that fun right now and look back and say, “Gosh, I wish we could have as much fun now as we had when we were new parents.”
You guys, don’t miss it in an effort to get to the next stage of life. I did that with my teenage years and college years, and regret it. I refuse to do it now.