Striving for MORE

Today we just randomly started talking about marriage, and giving each other respect. We had an incident this week that really opened my eyes to take what Jordan says more serious, even if it doesn’t feel serious to me. Maybe you need this chat today for your marriage, and hopefully we allow you to see that we don’t have it all together and you don’t need to either. Chances are you’re doing better at this married life than you thought!

Jordan said it best when we pulled this topic from the jar. “How did people act vs how should they have acted” on our pregnancy announcements. We talked about the topic of kids, how the world views them and why we now don’t look for outside approval on our family or family size. You are capable of raising your family!

Today we dove into a conversation on keeping kids safe in 2022, we talked everything from online safety to sleepovers. The world isn’t what it was when we were kids, and just being aware we think is key. We don’t know if we’re doing it right, parenting is a constant learning lesson and we just hope to be leading our 6 kids well. Let us know any tips you have for kids safety, we’d love to hear your thoughts after you hear ours!

Today we bit off more than we can chew in an episode about family travel. That’s a BIG topic, so if you want a more specific part of travel or a location we visited in depth, let us know. Hopefully some of our tips for travel help y’all out!!

Today we chatted about our journey with faith. For Jordan it lightly started in childhood and for Allie it didn’t start until adulthood. We pray that our stories help inspire you to continue on your own faith journey or to take the steps to begin one for your own family.

Today we chat about differences in our relationship and how we’ve stopped focusing on them because all it does is cause issues that don’t need to be there. If you haven’t done the 5 love languages we highly suggest it.

This episode we talked about the ups and downs of parenting. I want to say this first; parenting is hard, no matter one kid, or 10. We only know what we know at this moment. Adding more kids seems scary but as with everything in life you grow and adapt. We hope this chat helps you find your groove in parenting, whatever season you are in ❤️

Today we dove into how to compromise on big decisions. I swear it always goes back to having conversations. So often I feel like we create an entire narrative in our head and cause so much stress and fear over the what ifs. Sometimes just talking takes care of all of that toxic narrative building 😂 enjoy todays chat!

Today we dove into navigating postpartum when it’s coupled with anxiety and depression. What’s wild is you never know when it will happen, it skipped around after my babies and some seasons were worse than others. If you’re struggling, you’re not alone. Speak out about it, talk to your doctor and know that you will be okay. 🥰

Today we dove into NFP. Natural family planning is what we choose for “contraception” and it’s a loaded topic but I can’t say enough GOOD about women knowing their bodies and cycles. So regardless if you are Catholic and doing NFP or wanting to do it solely to learn your body, this episode covers what it is, why we do it and how we’ve evolved through our marriage. We aren’t experts, we’re the Catholic couple who had a baby before marriage so it’s a no judgement zone here as always. We view sex completely different then we did when we met. Finally hitting a groove and hope this conversation helps you!