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Monday Coffee Talk!

Monday came really fast, didn’t it?

I’m up early this morning getting this blog post written because when it came time for me to write this last night, I chose to soak in our tub instead ha!

So let’s grab a cub of coffee (or a skinny vanilla latte for me) and hang out!

-About 3 weeks ago, I decided to make Monday my sheet washing day.  I was tired of washing our sheets on the weekend and it’s nice to go to bed on a Monday night with clean sheets!

-Anyone else watching Suits?  I started binge watching the series on Amazon Prime mid-May and I’m so happy to say that I’m all caught up and even caught up with the current season.  Harvey and Donna are my favorite!

-My sister started a health and fitness accountability group on Facebook last week and last week was the hardest to begin because of school!!  I only worked out once last week (Saturday 😂) so I’m ready for this week to be much better!

-Speaking of working out Saturday, I’m currently doing the BBG workouts.  Last week would have been week 2, so since I only worked out once, I did the arms and abs day on Saturday since those need so much work on me.  Safe to say my shoulders and stomach will be sore for a while!


-Last night I finished uploading all of our photos and text for our profile book.  I ended up hiring out someone to do it after I found a girl who gave me a great deal on it and her style was exactly what I wanted.  I was going to do it myself, but after I spent a few hours trying to figure it out and only ended up with 2 pages done and extremely stressed, I realized it would be better for my sanity to hire it out.


-Speaking of working on our profile book, I went through all of our pictures and came across pictures from early 2017 when I had cut my hair off.  Seeing those REALLY made me want to cut my hair again!!!  This was taken pre-all the really heavy fertility meds so I was much thinner.  I really think that once I lose enough weight to where you can see it in my face, I’m going to cut my hair!!!  (Maybe??)

-And because I’m obsessed with baby clothes, here’s a gender neutral footed pj that I love!

Friday Faves: First Week of School!!

Hallelujah it’s finally Friday!!!!  The first week back to school is always the hardest and I am exhausted.  I am going to turn my phone on silent tonight and sleep in tomorrow morning!!!

Today’s post is going to be pretty short because I feel like I’ve been in a fog this entire week and literally haven’t taken any photos!  But before I get to my favorite things, I’ve been thinking a lot about infertility and adoption and so I hope to have a more “real” post out next week about my feelings currently.  

And we are still taking donations through PayPal for our adoption!!  I know August is such a hard month for some people because of all the back to school fees, but we are so very appreciative of anything donated!  Things are getting so close to being done and getting ready to go active!!  Eek!  And once we go active, we need about 15k-20k just in case we get matched with an agency that requires a match fee.  So for those who still want to donate to our fund, you can through paypal at paypal.me/DustinShaneyfelt    THANK YOU!!!


I didn’t get a photo from the first day of school and I wish I would have!!  I wore a cute yellowish dress from Anthro that I snagged a couple of years ago.  I stayed at school until 4 that afternoon working on things for the next day and then I came home to do more school work.  I made myself stop for dinner and then after dinner I relaxed in our bed drinking a La Croix and watching a Hallmark Christmas movie haha!  My favorite way to unwind!



I absolutely LOVE that Lilly finally has brought out longer hemlines.  Until now, I really have avoided buying lots of Lilly because all of the dresses are too short for me to wear to school and sadly, most of the clothes I buy I have to make sure I can wear them to school.  I had a gift card to use before our beach trip, so I picked up this dress.  I threw a blue jean jacket on over this for school since my district requires wider straps for the shoulders.


I hope y’all have a great weekend!!!  I’ll be working on our adoption profile book and scanning in all of our documents into a dropbox for our consultants!!

My Favorite Podcasts (….Right Now!)

I have become OBSESSED with podcasts in the last few months!  I feel like this is so crazy because I’m always such a music person, so it feels weird to be getting ready or cooking and listening to a podcast and not music.  But I’m not mad about it!

I realize now that I love learning, so listening to podcasts that allow me to learn while I’m busy driving or getting ready has been the best use of my time.  Now don’t get me wrong, I still listen to a lot of music 😂

Before I share what my favorite podcasts have been lately, I probably should tell you that I’m not one of those crime podcast listeners or anything like that.  I mean, I don’t even like to watch Dateline or anything like that on tv, so I’m not listening to it on a podcast haha!


This has been my FAVORITE episode that I’ve listened to lately, HANDS DOWN!  I actually ended up stopping the episode a few times to write down quotes.  Some of my favorites were: “Until I understand who God is, I can never understand who He has designed me to be.”  and “Sound doctrine yields sound living.”

If you listen to one episode this week, make it this one!

I listened to this while on the beach and cried 😂😂  I was thankful for sunglasses and a towel to wipe my tears on!

Jackie Hill Perry is my GIRL!  Love this episode of her!  I saw Jackie speak at The Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference back in June and her teaching is strong!

Yes to this one, too!  So convicting–especially when they talk about repentance.



I love listening to Al Mohler each week day because he gives world news from a Christian point of view.


The Big Boo Cast is the podcast I want to listen to when I want a good laugh!  Some of my favorite episodes were when they discussed the royal wedding!  Sophie Hudson is one half of the duo in the podcast and she lives in Birmingham!!



I don’t listen to these weekly, but there have been many times when I have a few free minutes so I scroll through to find something I want to listen to.

This was the very first episode I listened to from Risen Motherhood and it was so impactful because we had just started taking Clomid and I know the Lord put that episode in my hands to help prepare me for what was to come.  I now listen to RM a lot in order to prepare for motherhood!!

I hope y’all have a wonderful Monday!  Our first day back to school with the kids is tomorrow, so I will see y’all back here on Friday!!