Awkwardly Delightful • Cardigan Cowgirl • Sarcastic Overthinker • Mother of Daughters • Cancer Survivor • Imperfect Believer • Photog • In the Plat Book • Real
I am humbled & grateful for all of your kindness! I wasn't expecting a post from a nobody like me to go as far & wide as it has! I'm glad the Lord decided to keep me around. I have 3 beautiful daughters & a relationship with God that is stronger than ever. I'm glad I'm here! 🥹💖
"The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence." - Blake Lively
I've been putting myself out there, doing things by myself I used to be afraid of doing alone and very much enjoying it. I'm okay being the awkward woman enjoying the moment. 🙌🏻😉
"Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful." - Sophia Loren 🌺
After a long week of not feeling well, living in my pj's and looking like a troll, tonight I'm feeling beautiful and am taking my delightful self out for a night of music and dancing. 🎶
"Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen." - Brené Brown 🌼
#NewProfilePic
*2021 Devils Tower.
A gentleman walking behind me figured out I was Minnesotan from listening to me talk to the girls. "But not from the cities, you're rural." He then asked me to say some words in my "accent." 😅😂
It's a good feeling when you're newish to town and after visiting for a good half hour while at the lake with a lifelong resident he says "It's always good to see you" and you actually believe him when he says it. He made my day. 😊🌅
"And from the fall, she learned about grace, resilience, & never looking back. She didn't know she was strong, until she had to get up & keep going. She knows now, she was strong all along."
Me. 17 yrs ago. Clueless. I want to hug her knowing what's to come. Not sure I'd let go.
Coming out of therapy feeling like the loser of a street fight where I got jumped, was held down & had the crap beat out of me by my f'd up core beliefs & hurtful words from others that I am not worthy of real, genuine, authentic love & happiness. My mind & body are exhausted.
Don't copy the behavior of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's perfect will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. - Romans 12:2
I know I'm broken, parts of me always will be. Sometimes we need time to step back & look at how we're going to put the broken pieces back together in a different way so we're stronger.
Honestly, this week has sucked & I haven't been okay, but I know I will be.
Looking at old photos & seeing how absent I am in them.
Are they going to remember that I was there, behind the scenes capturing them as my heart sees them?
I hope they see love when they look at those photos & see the beauty I have always seen in them.
Sounds more of a dream life for me but I'd love to travel and stop at random farms I find beautiful and photograph their cattle, horses, the land and the folks who love the life as much as I do and tell their story while doing it. 🚜🌽💚☀️
"The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies." - Laura Ingalls Wilder ❤️
We won't get there this year, so here's my
#TBT
to our visit to
@MNFarmfest
a couple years back. That was a good day with my mini me farm girl. 💚🚜💛
#FarmFest
#JohnDeere
She was excited to show me her drawing tonight when we talked. She's amazing! All three of my girls have a natural talent for drawing. I love seeing that part of me in them, but what I love even more is seeing them create something that makes their hearts happy. 💖 I love that.
I have no reason to not be who I am. Why do you think I enjoy calling myself awkwardly delightful. I'm embracing who I am and I kinda like her. I know some don't like me for it, but it's a lot easier being my authentic self, then trying to fit in with everyone else. 🙂
Uffda. It's been a battle lately, but with the Lord's help, and the placement of some amazing people in my life, it's getting better. Guaranteed I'll be there again, but I'm slowly learning to give myself grace when I am.
#purposeinthepain
This hits on a whole other level when hearing it live! It's my personal favorite that I have an obligation to play on repeat at least three times before I can move onto the next song. The sexiest song
@littleriverband
ever wrote, and it came out the year before I was born. 😁❤️
This young man's at the lake for a family reunion and asked if he could fish. We're chatting and I asked if he's enjoying the reunion.
"Yeah, it's been nice. Wish my grandma was here..."
Me: "Oh is she..."
"...but she's dead so, she's not."
Umm...wasn't expecting that. 😅
Inga's been hanging out with some very chatty young campers and I am dying! 😂 For reference, right before this Inga splashed him and he said "Missed me, me missed, now you've gotta kiss me" and giggled when he said it!! 😂 I love that this is how my week with her is starting. 🥹
"It's impossible to forget a dog that gave you so much to remember."
This was Onslow. Been gone 11 years and the thought of him and his quirky little self still make me smile. 😊
Someone told me "Do you really think those people on X care about you?" Yes. Maybe I'm naive, but I'd like to think they're as real as I am & mean what they say. I've had folks on X show more love & support than most in my real life. I'm grateful for so many of you.
#AgX