Fall/Winter TV Shows

A couple of fun shows I'm enjoying right now are...

1. Splitting Up Together

This show has Jenna Fisher... aka Pam from the office! She is so cute in this new show. It's a great light hearted feel good show to make you smile :)

2. Roswell, New Mexico

I am a huge fan of the original show Roswell. I've watched the entire series about 10 or more times. I was a bit worried that the remake wouldn't do the original show justice. However, it's not a remake, it's reimagined. The new characters have the same names as the old characters, but the entire world is different. This version, the characters are older and deal with current day issues like immigration. The chemistry between Liz and Max is the most important part, and they go that 100% right!

3. Good Trouble

This show is a spin off of The Fosters. I'm not the biggest fan of spin off shows, but this one is amazing! I love how, like in the old show, they touch on sensitive topics. The characters are going through what everyone goes through when they are navigating a new career. The tension between doing what's best for your career, and what's best for your conscious is a major theme in the show. 

I hope you enjoy these new shows too!

BeesInTheGarden :)

I Choose Happiness :)

I choose to be happy.

When I was hospitalized for high blood pressure when I was 24 weeks pregnant, I choose to look to the positives and to choose to be happy.

When I was then diagnosed with gestational diabetes and put on a strict diet with 4 shots of insulin per day that made my injection sites break out in large bumpy rashes... I choose to look to the brighter side of the situation. I stuck to the diabetes plan, and from 26 weeks - 37 weeks only gained 5 lbs.

When a doctor told me that TheLittleBear had clubbed feet on the morning I was to take a four hour exam, followed by another four hour exam the next night. I let myself have two hours to wallow in self pity, then I pulled myself together and received the highest mark on one of the toughest exams of my life.

No life is perfect.
I believe that it's the imperfections that make us enjoy the beautiful times.
Like meeting the child you've been waiting years to meet.
Watching a mircle grow and develop right before your eyes.
The soft cuddles right before you put them to bed.

No matter what life throws at me, I choose to be happy.
I choose to look at the positives.

Doctors... Doctors... Doctors...

This is a crazy thing I'm going to tell you...

Doctors are not always right.

When I was pregnant with TheLittleBear. I had an ultrasound at 34 weeks that made it look like TheLittleBear had clubbed feet. The doctors made me stay and speak to a geneticists who made me and TheDapperGentleman detail our family history.

Even though there was no history of clubbed feet. The doctors were convinced that TheLittleBear had this issue. I asked if there was a possibility that my womb didn't have a lot of room for her to stretch and that's why it made it appear in the ultrasound that her feet were in odd positions. They assured me that there was no possibility that she didn't have this diagnosis.

Because of this diagnosis, when I gave birth we had two different pediatricians look at her feet.

And...

The final diagnosis was that she didn't have clubbed feet because clubbed feet are stuck in the odd position. TheLittleBear's feet were flexible. Therefore when she started to grow and put weight on them, they would naturally straighten out. The pediatricians also said that there isn't a lot of room in the womb so sometimes their feet bend in odd angles...

Up until this point in my pregnancy, everything that had gone wrong was because of my body.

To hear that your perfect baby now had an imperfection that would need to be corrected with needles or a cast... This was hard to hear.

TheDapperGentleman and I kept this news to ourselves. In my gut I knew that I would love her no matter what, and this didn't change anything for me.

This will come as news to some of our friends and family because in the end we decided not to share this new development. We had a lot of support from our friends and family, and I didn't feel like I needed any support for this. I loved TheLittleBear no matter what, and I didn't want anyone to feel bad for us, because to me, there was nothing bad. This was our baby, and these were her feet.

The moral of the story is, doctors aren't always right. Until there are concrete fact, don't give up hope.

Friendships that Spark Joy

The last few years have been tough on my friendships. Friendships ended with people who I thought were going to be in my life forever.

After going through some major changes in 2016 I learned that I didn't want to hold on to friendships that didn't spark joy. It was a hard decision to let go of people who I cared so deeply for, but knew our friendship had come to a natural conclusion.

I have never been a person who makes lasting connections easily. I don't let many people in. I used to think that I would prefer one deep friendship over numerous superficial ones. This opinion has since changed.

I think in the past I put too much on my friendships and not enough on myself. I needed to learn how to not use people as my social safety blanket. I needed to learn how to be by myself.

When I let go of my friendships in 2016 it was hard. Really hard. But I did my year of yes in 2018 and now I have people in my life that I truly enjoy.

I don't share every part of my life with a single friend. Instead I have different friends to meet different needs. I have Mom friends, Cooking friends, Work friends, Casual Friends... The list is endless.

What I learned the most from my meeting new people is that I don't need a handful of people, I need a whole village.