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Aaronica Cole is the mom behind The Crunchy Mommy which is the practically green guide for millennial moms on-the-go. The goal of the site is to give moms a space that they can feel like they're the amazing people they are while saving the world with on green tip at a time.

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Happiness is a choice. . I was talking to husband

Happiness is a choice.
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I was talking to husband last night about how things were just hard lately. Everything from trying to get BC out of the door on time to making sure we had everything we need to just everything. He asked me if I was still happy with my choice to work for myself.
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Yes. Yes I am. He doesn’t get how while yes, I do this for money but I do this because of the messages I get about how something I’ve said or shared has helped them.
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So is it hard? Absolutely. Does it make me happy? No. I choose happiness because that’s my choice.
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Choose happy friends.

January has been kicking my behind and I know I’

January has been kicking my behind and I know I’m not the only one!
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Let’s collectively speak what we need into existence so fill in the blank:
Today I need _________________

Yes. I’m still in the bed. . I’ve been up to w

Yes. I’m still in the bed.
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I’ve been up to workout and shower but I’m not feeling the greatest so instead of doing all the things, I’m making a list of all the things I need to get done this week. Last week wasn’t nearly as productive as I wanted it to be because of our emergency with BC.
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While he’s been bounced back, it’s taken some time to get back into the saddle of living and not watching him every second with appreciative eyes. I’m grateful he’s back to himself and I’ve added finding a therapist on my list of things to do this week so I can work on finding my way back to myself.
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I’ll be transferring these items to my bullet journal shortly but I neglected to add a page for goal-setting and a master list of things to do. Because of the way my brain functions, I HAVE to do a brain dump weekly in order to get the things done I want.
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What’s your planning style? Are you a daily/weekly/monthly planner?

Yesterday was hands down the scariest experience i

Yesterday was hands down the scariest experience in my almost 10 years of motherhood. Everyone around me said that i was calm, cool and collected but my insides were quite the opposite.
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One of my therapists once said that my ego has such a strong hold over my superego and id that I would likely never lose control but seeing what looked like the life leave my baby yesterday tested this theory hard.
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I’m grateful to my village for the words of comfort as I watched my heart struggle outside my chest. Today, everything is back to normal and I’m slowly piecing myself together too.

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When you’re the last one standing as attitudes a

When you’re the last one standing as attitudes and sickness come for your family...

Sustainable. . This is my word for the year. I tho

Sustainable.
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This is my word for the year. I thought it was going to be worth but this morning I woke up with sustainability on my heart.
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The new year represents new goals, lifestyles, etc but how often are these sustainable goals? Like at the end of the year, how many of these goals have been achieved?
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So sustainable is my word for the year. I’ve published a list of 10 #ecofriendly resolutions that are relatively easy to implement in your life and then made this doodle as a cute reminder.
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Swipe left to see a time lapse of how I doodled this picture then check out the post and let me know which of these you’ll be focusing on for the new year.

#NewYear_SameYou// Full disclosure: right before I

#NewYear_SameYou//
Full disclosure: right before I took this picture, one of my kids mentioned my size and how something didn’t fit the way she thought it should because I had gotten bigger. She didn’t mean any harm by it but gosh, it stung. My eyes look a little sad because I felt like I had failed myself because I’d stopped taking care of me in my attempts to take care of everyone else.
As moms and women, we’re expected to be perfect. We’re supposed to be able to balance our hormones, emotions, eat healthy, workout, meal plan for families, break glass ceilings, be amazing in bed while keeping a perfectly clean house and flawless style. And like clockwork, as the New Year rolls around, so do the commercials “encouraging” us to shrink ourselves in order to be accepted more by our friends, families, people we don’t know and places of work. When you’re already struggling, this screams, “YOU AREN’T GOOD ENOUGH AS YOU ARE!!!!” I’ve yet to see a commercial for a housekeeper, babysitter, intuitive doctor, therapist or coffee with friends when this is probably what we really need. I haven’t seen commercials encouraging us to love the people that we are in this moment and worked (or didn’t work) to become. I haven’t seen commercials celebrating surviving last year, which is truly an accomplishment.
As we prepare for making 2020 an amazing year, I encourage you to take a look at yourself and check in with how you feel. What went well in 2019? What didn’t go so well? Is there something you’d like to build upon? Behaviors you’d like to change? While you do this, remember to give yourself the same grace you would another and ignore the messages that don’t align with the goals you have for yourself.
You are great as you are. You are worthy of a beautiful life if you change nothing at all. Survival is success.
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