Tag: Covid

God is Great.

Happy Monday! #MomMonday

So today and next week are definitely going to be heart felt and vulnerable, but I am so ready to share my stories with you all and be one chapter closer to ending this year!

As many of you know I am a stay at home mom and my husband runs his own business. Living that kind of lifestyle though, we faced MANY challenges this year, as many of you have too. From a pandemic that continuously put our account in the red, being months behind rent, behind on bills, trying to figure out how we were going to get by, and while almost everyone was getting unemployment and stimulus checks, we were still sitting on nothing. It was a hard pill to swallow to think of what could possibly happen. It was also my darkest months dealing with postpartum.

I remember feeling like I was drowning. Not just in my own mental torment, but in the overwhelming thoughts of how were we going to survive?! I had maxed out all my credit cards, I even opened new ones, and Eli would take any side job he could while working on his flip. Hustling, was an understatement. It was seriously a long, brutal, and dark time for us. Yet we tried to remain as faithful as can be and continued praying for God to make a way. EVEN when things looked completely hopeless, but let me tell you! When you stay faithful in the little things, you will be faithful in the big ones, because God showed up when we least expected and smacked us with the reminder that there is no challenge to big for Him! That when you trust on the Lord, He will take care of you and he did just that! We didn’t just make it through the year 2020. We conquered this year and I couldn’t be more grateful and blessed!

So I just want to remind those who may still be struggling. God has your back! Just put your faith in Him and watch those blessings unfold! Even when there seems to be no way, God will make a way and if there wasn’t any better season to start believing in miracles, it would be now! I promise you, there is bigger and better instore! ♡︎

Kid Covid Affect

12.14.20

Happy Monday! #MomMonday

I’m sure many of you have been counting the days until 2021 and now that December is finally here. We are that much closer to putting the year 2020 behind us. This has definitely been one crazy year to say the least, a pandemic to forever remember that had affected so many of us in different ways. So today I wanted to talk about how did Covid affect your little ones?

Although my girls are three and one and I have had the blessing to say I didn’t have to worry about schools shutting down and virtual classes. Covid still took a big impact on my three year old. The isolation and distance that took place in not seeing her favorite loved ones and friends, took an emotional toll on her and it was hard.

She was used to having play dates and seeing family throughout the week/weekends. That she eventually caught on to the unusual routine. Yes we had FaceTime, but that wasn’t enough. Zoe needed that physical quality time. To hug, play with, and talk to. So hearing her ask her grandpa (Belo), grandma (Bela), and Aunt (Titi Maria) every time over the phone, “Are you going to come with me Zoe?” and seeing her sad little face, because she couldn’t. SUCKED!

Fast forward a few months in. The joy and sparkle in her eyes when she could finally see her Belo, Bela, and Titi. She was ecstatic! BIG hugs. Check. Play time. Check. Overall quality time was great and fun as always…until it was time to say goodbye. The meltdown this girl had was none that I have ever seen. Her cries were as if someone was literally ripping her away from the ones she loved and was never going to see them again. At first I got upset. I didn’t get it. She never acted that way before. This was something new and I felt confused and frustrated trying to calm her down.

Then it happened again. Then again. Then on her birthday she had two friends come over at separate times and at each goodbye she freaked out. At this point I was like okay she never gets like this with her friends and that’s when it clicked. Separation Anxiety and at this point the goodbye cries turned into hyperventilation where throwing up followed. It literally killed me inside to see her that way. To know that she really thought and felt like she will never see them again and her telling ‘so&so’ don’t leave me! Yelling “NOOOO!” as she watches from the window. It was Pure Heartbreak!

Things have finally calmed as we are now months into this pandemic and overtime with breathing technics, allowing her to voice her feelings, and using calm words to comfort her has really helped her a lot. I continuously pray that her soul remains calm and she remains strong, because even though things have gotten back to some form of normalcy in our home and family routines. The future is still unknown, but one thing I know if the world were to shut down again. We’ll be more mentally and emotionally prepared.

#MyLoveYouAreAFighter ♡︎