Meet the Shaneyfelts

The Summer Mom Uniform

I basically LIVE in athleisure during the summer months. I love not having to put on make up each day and getting dressed in the most comfortable clothes I own (aside from pajamas LOL). If only I could dress in athleisure all school year long 🙂

I’ve been watching the tennis skirt/skort trend really take off and wanted to try it for myself. I finally did and I’m not looking back–I LOVE IT!!

This is the skort from Lululemon. I really love the quality of Lululemon’s clothes, so I wanted to try this skirt vs one from Amazon. This is the long length and I’m 5’7″ so I could definitely do the extra long length too if I wanted (online only and it’s 2 inches longer). I love the short length underneath–I think my biggest worry with a tennis skirt was the shorts underneath and if they would ride up or bother me. I’ve worn this at least 4 times so far, and I haven’t had an issue!

You can’t really tell, but the back is really cute with the pleats, too!! If you’re on the fence about buying or ordering, I say do it! It runs tts, and I think I was the biggest skeptic and now I’m the biggest fan!

On an unrelated note, I took our curtains down when we repainted our room and got new carpet in, and I’m not putting them back up because I want something totally different. I bought new bedding during a Memorial Day sale and I may wait until a 4th of July sale for curtains haha!

Random Thoughts on Motherhood

Today’s post is going to be random. I was walking yesterday for exercise and started listening to a Sally Clarkson podcast. She’s a huge believer in the importance of motherhood and discipling your children–and it got me thinking…

I love being a mother so much. I really do. It’s what I’ve always dreamed of being and maybe because of that, sometimes I end the day feeling like I’ve done the worst job possible. Was I too irritable today? Did I show enough grace? Was I patient enough? Did I play with Harrison enough? Do both boys know how much I love them?

I want my kids to grow up feeling safe here in their home. To feel comfortable in their home. To go to sleep each night feeling secure in their love from both of their parents. To see modeled how a true repentant Christian life is like.

And there are some days where I feel like I did an okay job, and then there are days where I feel like I am the worst mom.

BUT…I am thankful that I don’t have to stress out about what I am like as a mom. I remind myself (and I have to do this frequently) that God is sovereign over Harrison and Banks’s lives–that my job is to do the very best I can in loving and raising them, but that I don’t have control over how they turn out as adults. God is in control. That takes a lot of pressure off of feeling like I have to be a perfect mom all the time because it’s impossible! This doesn’t mean that I parent passively–I still strive to do a perfect job, but when I mess up and sin against my children, I repent and then apologize to them and ask them for forgiveness.

Okay, well I have no idea why I wrote this post, but maybe someone needs to be reminded of this just like I need to remind myself of this pretty much every day 🙂

Life Lately!

Hi friends! I’m up and actually getting ready today because I’m going to sub at summer school today–it should be incredibly easy and also a way to have a little extra spending money!

Today I’m sharing a little look at our life lately!

Banks’s favorite thing to do once you lay him down in the living room on his play mat is to immediately crawl to Harrison’s toys. Harrison was working on building a house with his blocks and Banks army crawled his way over there to see what he could get in to. I love this little peek into (what I pray is) a friendship between these two boys!

I think I’ve finally figured out how to help Banks sleep more–and that’s feeding him more solids than I thought he was supposed to have at this age haha!!! Lately I’ve been feeding him a vegetable and a fruit, but last night I was out of fruit for him so he just ate a bunch of carrots. HE LOVED THEM! It’s so funny to see him get so excited when the spoon is coming toward him, and he’ll cry in between bites because he wants more. He also now grabs at the spoon and tries to feed himself–it’s wild.

I love a summer supper!!! Dustin grilled chicken (ignore how much sauce I have–it came out of the bottle too fast), and I roasted asparagus and sautéed squash with some garlic. It was so, so good. Also, if you love BBQ sauce like I do but want something a “little” better for you, you need to use Stubbs sauce! There isn’t any corn syrup or artificial flavors added like in other BBQ sauces that I used to eat.

I wish I had a picture from Tuesday night because I helped host a lingerie shower for my friend Michaela and it was a blast! She teaches with me but is moving away because her soon to be husband lives too far away for her to keep teaching at my school :(. BUT a lot of us got together Tuesday night to celebrate her and we laughed so hard we were crying at some points–it really was a fun night!

I’m off to get ready to go teach at summer school today–see you back here tomorrow for a Friday Favorites post!!