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New Year, New Goals

March 12, 2024

Hey! You shout in your head as you read the title – and no, this isn’t a throwback post from January first. I know it isn’t the first! It isn’t even the first day or the first week or even a Sunday!

But we can restart any time. We don’t have to wait for the first day of the week, the first day of the next month, or the first day of the next year, we can restart whenever we choose.

Too many people wait until later to do things and it gets shoved to the back burner or forgotten. Not this time for me!

It isn’t a big goal. I’m wanting to type out and post at least two blogs a week. I want to be an encourager. I want to spread hope and love. This is my voice. (Cheesy, I know, but whatever)

I’ve been letting it lag a little. This was brought to my attention by two people; a friend and a daughter who are like, “I haven’t read anything from you in awhile.” Hmm… I looked and yikes, they are right.

At one point, I was posting once every three days. That’s not too bad.

That’s my goal. My restart.

What is yours? What are you putting off resetting because it just isn’t the right time? Do you want to do it? Have you prayed about it? Is it a positive change? Yes. Yes. Yes. Then don’t wait! Restart now! Make today your New Year for your New Goal and move your life forward!

Thank you for reading.

Type at you next time,

~Nancy Tart

Encouragers: The Chaos Of Joy Mother

October 9, 2022

I’m sitting at the desk at gym, taking payments and checking liability waivers for our open gym one Friday at noon (every Friday noon to 1pm is Open Gym – basically, allow your kiddos to expend all their energy just before naptime!). She pulls up into the handicapped parking space. I smile.

This woman is such an amazing encourager to me! She has overcome more physical and medical challenges in her life than I could ever understand. She has five little ones all five or younger and normally is accompanied by at least one nephew in the same general range. She is such a blanket of calm mothering in a sea of chaos – and her smile! Such joy! She chooses joy!

I call her the “Chaos of Joy Mother” because you’d think her life with five littles zero to five years old would be chaos. (I see some of her posts on Facebook and yes, it’s laughable, amazing, lovable chaos!) Add in farm animals, countless stunt-double-training apparatuses in their kid-ninja-warrior yard, kids turning the house into ninja training course, and homeschooling… I love her beautiful chaos! She’s the type of calm mother I hope I am. Minus the goat and stretching births out a bit, one of my girls pointed out that there were some family tales we turned into “The Funny Sisters” stories that are probably relatable.

She encourages me by her love of life! She is always doing something new or allowing her daughter to try something new. They grow in love, life, and faith by expounding on the adventures life hands them. This is such an encouragement to me. I pray for them and thank God that I see her. She probably doesn’t see herself as an encourager, but she totally is by the joy she shares!

Sometimes chaos is where you find your joy. I know some of the craziest moments in my life are where I felt I couldn’t do anything else BUT find joy in Jesus and look up.

While I’m driving to my first school on our afterschool pickup route, I happen to hear “Season, a Joy Bringer” and I smile at her anecdotes. She is always focusing on how to share joy. I feel the Chaos of Joy Mother is always sharing something she finds joyful with us – some see it as joy (like me) and some as craziness (are you kidding, you did/allowed what?!). In our journey of life, I am super thankful for those who encourage me. I pray I am an encouragement to others.

I’m super thankful for the Chaos of Joy Mother because she and her little angels always make me smile with their love, wildness, and crazy adventures!

Type at you next time,

~Nancy Tart

First Dance Pictures!

My teenager and some pictures from her first dance!

October 18, 2018

First Dance Pictures!

I said I wouldn’t post pictures in my Facebook album… but I am going to put them in a blog! (Okay, so I’m one of those devious, literal word-means-exactly-what-I-say moms.) I’m happy for my little girl and proud of the woman she’s become. And, well, since my first “boy-taking-me-to-a-dance” was my wedding reception, I thought her first dance (homecoming at a friend’s school) was a big deal.

As previously mentioned (dress shopping blog), my eldest daughter isn’t much of a shopper. She had a dress in mind and set out to find it. She tried on one from my sister, Becca, and LOVED it (still likes it best) but learned black was the rival team’s color so of course, she just can’t wear black. So she decided on green.

This was the result. (No, that’s not our truck)

We met her date’s family at a restaurant (they were going to eat before going to the dance) and the moms and aunt took pictures!

^ (Jaquline called, “why can’t you get closer to each other?”)

^ Becky got a bit of a smile.

I’m sure this was either his aunt or mom, (His family made the girls each a wrist corsage) but the next three are my favorites!

Especially this one ^ – probably after they heard some tease.

After all the pictures were taken, just before she left for dinner, she makes Becky promise not to post them to Facebook – and I said, “we’re not posting anything to Facebook tonight.”

Becky rolled the window up and smirked, “mom, you’re going to post them in a blog, aren’t you?”

Kimberly and Jaquline laughed in the backseat and I heard one say, “that’s what Mom does to everything… write a blog about it.”

Yes, either I write it in a blog or hide it in a book somewhere! (Where else am I expected to glean inspiration?) My children know me well…

Thanks for reading!

Type at you later…

~Nancy Tart

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