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THE LITTLE WINS COUNT. So much of motherhood looks

THE LITTLE WINS COUNT. So much of motherhood looks like simply showing up, and giving what you’ve got for that particular day. It may feel like a crap day, or like it’s not adding up to anything, but “suddenly” you’ll wake up one day and realize “OMG, they wipe their own butts now.” Or “wow, she doesn’t cry every time we tell her it’s time to brush her teeth.” The little investment you make everyday may FEEL pointless (“say thank you”, “push in your chair”, “say please”, “sit down”, “sit down”, “SIT DOWN” 🤪) but they eventually add up.
As an Enneagram 3, I thrive when I can see tangible things being accomplished. ✅This picture is the tiny piece of scrap paper that I used to track my word count, every time I sat down at the computer to write. The goal was to write enough words to be a book that went out into the world. Some days were thousands at once, other days were less. But I wrote it down every time because it counted. It mattered. The little time I had, what little words I could contribute, I knew the book needed to be written one word at a time.
We all start by starting. I know momming right now feels tedious and like it’s never going to end. But we can trust and know that with whatever we have to give and offer today - no matter how SMALL that may seem - that it MATTERS. You matter. Your work matters. This work at home matters. I always say heart work is hard work, and I believe that it is accomplished little by little in the smallness of the everyday monotony.
Keep going sister, your story is being written no matter how small or insignificant it seems right now. A beautiful work is unfolding and you don’t want to quit before you get to the end. Because it’ll be a masterpiece - and it’ll have been written and built one day at a time. ❤️ Happy Saturday mamas. ❤️

If you would have told me 3 months ago that I woul

If you would have told me 3 months ago that I would be stuck in my house, drowning in anxiety, with my 5, 8, & 10 year old asking me to HOMESCHOOL them - I would have LAUGHED IN YOUR FACE!🤪 But if you also would have told me that the thing that was SAVING MY LIFE right now was building an organic WINE business, I also would have LAUGHED IN YOUR FACE!

I never would have thought this would be my current reality, but here I am, a month and a half in to launching and building my own business and I’m LOVING IT! I’m making real life friends in Kansas City and Idaho, and going deeper & re-connecting with friends locally and in Montana. Their friendships, encouragement, shared passion and camaraderie are what is helping me get out of bed in the morning wanting to THRIVE. And the bonus out of that is I’ve started earning a real live paycheck. Like actual dollars that someone is paying me! I know money isn’t a carrot for some, but I forgot how GOOD it feels to see my hard work pay off (literally) especially after SO MANY years grinding it out as a stay at home mom (this just in - no dollars are paid for that 24/7 job 🙃🙄). And it’s pushing me to reach further. I’m seeing old parts of the bad ass Ashley start to resurface and I LOVE it. A new better version of me is emerging - still a bad ass, but also a woman that values family and empathy.
Passion and purpose. They are the two things I’ve been on a journey to re-discover. I have shared this all with you, for YEARS. I never would have thought it would come like this. I never would have thought this would be the spark to light my drive on fire again. I never would have thought it would be with this group of women all looking to crush it in their day to day lives too, while juggling kids and marriage and COVID (damn you Covid). 🙃

But this is where I’m at, and I couldn’t be more grateful. I’m having FUN and feeling purpose and passion for the first time in a real long time. And it’s spilling over into all the other areas of my life. Thanks for letting me share, thanks for always being a support while I process, and thanks for being the community I’ve dreamed of.
Watch out, Ashley’s BACK. 🔥🔥🔥🙌🏻🤩

🚸👩🏼‍🏫OPEN ENROLLMENT!👩🏼‍🏫

🚸👩🏼‍🏫OPEN ENROLLMENT!👩🏼‍🏫🚸
Here at Camp Carbo, we offer a newly developed “homeschool-ISH” program. 👍🏻We guarantee irregular lessons that are guaranteed to be unsupervised! 👍🏻With daily Do-It-Yourself (because mommy is busy) regiments, your child will learn many skills on their own as they navigate suburban home survival, including but not limited to 24/7 access to the snack cupboard. 👍🏻With low monthly payments of wine shipments, we can promise you okay-ish results (student human trials vary and are unproven). 🍷
👍🏻With the Camp Carbo guarantee, we ensure each child receives a state of the Art semi-quality education
👍🏻A high value on recess, and a minimally elevated value on teaching, your kids will leave Camp Carbo more ready than ever to go back to school!📚👩🏼‍🏫 Click the link in my bio to enroll today. 🍎🍏 (As the owner and founder of Camp Carbo, I approve this message)
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We went out last night. Like, to a real sit down r

We went out last night. Like, to a real sit down restaurant. They took our temps as we came in, we sanitized our hands, and we chose to sit outside and enjoy the warm evening air. In case you haven’t been following along in my stories, we hopped a plane last week to visit family in Arizona. ☀️🏊🏻‍♀️🌵Last night, was the first night Blake and I have been OUT without the kids in 3 months. For a couple that has a regular rhythm of a weekly date night, that might as well be an eternity! After months of feeling as tho we have either been drowning or merely treading water, it felt so good to feel a moment where our heads were actually above water.
No one has a perfect plan for this whole re-opening thing. It’s all one big experiment because not a single person has done this before EVER. Let’s remember that as friends and family begin to make calculated choices for themselves, that we cannot let a virus come between our relationships. Let love and grace and empathy be the foundation for each of our choices, and each of our interactions. That way, at least when we fall or fail (which is inevitable!), we’ll have arranged for a much softer landing place. ❤️ How are you feeling about re-opening things and life? Does it excite you, worry you, or a combo of both?
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ICEBERG...RIGHT AHEAD. 🙃😬🤦🏼‍♀️ A

ICEBERG...RIGHT AHEAD. 🙃😬🤦🏼‍♀️ Anyone else’s household looking more like a pirate ship than a cruise ship these days??😬
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Once upon a time, we used to have regular date nig

Once upon a time, we used to have regular date nights and time to pour into not only each other outside of the four walls we live in, but also the hobbies and passions that help us come alive outside of parenthood. Not going to lie, this whole virus thing has been SO HARD on our marriage. Finding time and space to remember that we’re LOVERS and BEST FRIENDS just as much as we are Co-parents, homeschool teachers, and business partners has been literally next to impossible.
But we’re trying. We’re fighting to choose each other in the margins of chaotic life right now, the same way we did thru the stress of each pregnancy and each baby phase. This too shall pass, even tho it feels effing hard right now. Fight for your marriages, fight for your partner - even if that means putting your heads down right now and just weathering the storm. Grab your loomjournals, write to each other, hold hands as you pass the baton from one task to another. But fight for it. Make no mistake, this is a freaking battle. But we are warriors and we can do hard things. Even in our marriages. ❤️
#staymarried

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