Some of y’all may know, if you follow my social media platforms like Twitter and Snapchat but I recently hired an assistant to help me out during the week here and there. For so long, I’ve tried to tackle my daily to-do lists on my own and I just never seemed to be able to get my head above water — without pulling 16 hour days, everyday. And, while some people are all about that … I’m just not. I did that last year. I worked every day. I’m all about the hustle, but it only leads to burn out at some point. I told myself in January that I’d take better care of myself this year. Walking away from my nursing career was the first move. Hiring someone into this position clearly was the second and it clearly didn’t happen overnight. I have been praying about it for a long time, and the Lord – in the most beautiful way – brought me and an acquaintance of mine from church together at just the right time for both of us. So, you’ll see Lyndsey in my Snapchat’s here and there because we’re together a lot now. I bring all that up to say … the last few weeks, her and I have been playing some major catchup. We make progress everyday, and I know we’re almost at a ‘caught up’ point. I’m so thankful. But, with that said, a lot of times we are so busy during the day doing this and that … that I’m literally like ‘oh yeah … my blog post … maannnn!’ and I start kicking myself because I’m already in bed, comfortable and ready to snuggle with Fish. But, I’m learning to show myself grace right now, during this catch up phase (and I hope you will, too) because I know it’s not the end of the world that my posts aren’t up at a certain time or that I even have a blog post at all. This is the part I love the most, though … the creative, the sharing, the connecting side … so I get caught up in that. But, I think we all need the reminder sometimes that … we cannot do it all and what a disservice I’d be doing to y’all to fake it and act like I’ve got it all together. I cannot do that. I’ve never been shy about sharing my struggles and insecurities with y’all, and it’s really important to me that I continue to do so. I’ve been reading this AMAZING book lately that supports the reason WHY I do just that. It’s called ‘Daring Greatly’ by Brené Brown and it’s about the power of vulnerability, how it leads to feeling free, combats shame, and the stresses the importance of knowing you’re enough. It’s not about what you do or how much you get done in a day or what your house looks like or what your outfit looks like or what expensive bag you are able to purchase … it’s just about being real and owning who you are, imperfections and all. I hope you know that you’re enough. I really do. I hope you have people in your life encouraging you to take off the mask and just be real. If you don’t or you are just curious about what I mean … I encourage you to read it! It’s so good and it’ll help us love other people better! I know it’s already helped me tremendously.