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We are surrounded by other people constantly on our journeys, including this fitness one. But at the end of the day, we are each responsible for our own health & well being. You show up for you. This is your journey. You can’t make decisions for other family members, they can’t make decisions for you. Modeling and leading by example are powerful tools that can influence others—but others aren’t always the reason we show up.

Do you show up for you? Do you feel strong in your resolution to strengthen your body and your self for you? Write about it. Make today about you.

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Boundaries

Looking back over the topic of support, do you feel like you need to set any boundaries with anyone about your fitness journey? Do you need to stop talking about the topic with anyone who is bringing you down or shaming you (either on purpose or inadvertently)? What do you need to say or do to create a healthy boundary and maintain it? Are you able to draw them openly and clearly? Write about it.

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Conversations

What do your conversations about fitness look like? Are they lighthearted? One sided? Defeated? Non-existent? Write about it.

Conversations are one thing, expectations are another. Do you ever feel like other people’s beliefs about fitness or their expectations creep into your conversations about exercise? Do your conversations feel peer-to-peer or more like someone telling you what you should be doing? Write about how past and present conversations about fitness have affected your choice to work out.

Who do you feel like you can talk with about exercise and feel inspired? Who’s in your canoe? Make a list of people you feel comfortable talking with or who build you up. Bonus: acknowledge their support by sending them a thank you!

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Individuals

A family is made up of individuals. You are the individual from your family who started the guided journal and created your own personal fitness goals. When you choose goals and pursue them, you become a model for your children. Your kids learn by watching you. Your actions convey your goals, values, and beliefs.

Would you consider yourself accepting of the idea that everyone in a family has individual beliefs, motivations, etc. that need support? If not, why? If so, how do you support the individual goals of your family members?

Forcing someone to have the same goals as you may cause resentment. Do you feel your fitness goals are creating resentment from others? If so, how? How do you feel like you can find the balance between meeting your own goals while being a role model for others through your actions?

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Exercise & Our Children

Do you currently model movement for your children? Have you in the past? How important is it to you that your children value exercise? Do you value it enough to model it for your children?

Write about what fitness related values you hope your children will have when they are older and/or as they grow up. Are you modeling those goals and values for them now? If yes, how? If not, what do you need to change to start modeling your movement values? What do you need to do to model those values now?

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Family Goals

The guided journals are very personal and individual. We often pursue one of the topics because we personally want to make changes for ourselves. Sometimes families have group goals and sometimes they remain personal.

Do you have family fitness goals? Who created them? Was everyone involved? Do you feel it’s fair to have family goals when it comes to health or do you believe they should be individual? How do your other family members feel about these ideas? Start a conversation and write down what you learn.

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Do You Feel Supported?

Sometimes it is easier to get support from outsiders because of complicated interpersonal relationships with relatives, including spouses, partners, siblings, and even our children. We often don’t want to appear weak or undesirable (among other things) around family.

Write about how you do or do not feel supported by your family. Write about your confidence level around your family as it relates to fitness. What do you need from family to feel supported? Be specific.

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Day 6 of our “official” new homeschool year an Day 6 of our “official” new homeschool year and we pressed pause on everything to start Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park on the front porch while holding cats, petting dogs, and soaking up the last of the summer sunshine. ☀️🍁🥹☕️

This is the life. 🩵 Truly, truly. There is nothing else I’d rather be doing than reading Jane Austen with my kids in the sunshine when the moment strikes them. 

10/10 recommend this Usbourne introduction to Jane Austen. It’s captivating and beautiful!
Is anyone else reading this book right now? 🫁 O Is anyone else reading this book right now? 🫁 Or have you read it? 🤔

There’s a lot to unpack in this book! 👀 Let’s talk about it! Spoiler alerts and stories about how you have applied it to your life are welcome in the comments👇🏼 

This was gifted to me by @birthuprising 🥰 It’s book club worthy for sure!
Our first baby Holland Lops are available 🥰 The Our first baby Holland Lops are available 🥰 They are adorable beyond all reason & ready for their new homes. If you’re in North Idaho and interested in a 4-H project or a snuggly pet, send me a DM! 

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This is absolutely, without a doubt, my favorite t This is absolutely, without a doubt, my favorite thrift store find ever. 😍 Our entire family is obsessed with books. Our house is designed around our books. And one thing we need more of (other than bookshelves 😂) are book ends!

Wait until you see the thrift treasures my homemaker friends are posting about today, too. 🤩 (See tags below) 

What is the best thing you ever thrifted? 

For more fave second-hand items, check out my friends along with our hashtag #homemakerscircle 

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What a summer of simple joys and beautiful days wi What a summer of simple joys and beautiful days with my children! 🥰 

Lord, open my eyes so that I can take in the joy that is meant for me in this beautiful life. Help me and my family to continue to keep our eyes open as we enter into the new homeschool year. Draw us closer to each other and closer to you. Amen. 

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. Psalm 119:18

Blessings on your new homeschool year! 🙏🏼😘
A rainy summer day at home Sleeping in, not sure A rainy summer day at home

Sleeping in, not sure if by accident or on purpose
Coffee with my best friend
Our toddler requested banana bread
So I made some
The rain became more steady
So we made tea
And opened our poetry book
One poem was so beautiful, I cried
Wide eyes asking questions 
Then laughing at the next poem
I love these days, my children, and poetry
A little school
And a lot of home
I treasure our time together
I stare wide eyed back at them
The seasons are shifting
And so are we. 

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There’s only two things that money can’t buy a There’s only two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes! 🍅 

Those three humble cherry tomatoes are from my garden and the heirloom tomatoes are from the store 😂 (But my tiny tomatoes definitely tasted better than store-bought ones! Motivation to grow more next year!) I didn’t have enough for my caprese sourdough bread so I combined the two 🙂

👩🏻‍🍳LB Style Recipe:

Sourdough pizza crust can just be a regular sourdough bread recipe but add garlic, oregano, basil, and olive oil. 1 loaf is 2 crusts. 

Put your halved dough in a pan and cook it hot (450-500) for about 8 minutes to cook the crust partway. 

Take it out, add your toppings, & put it back in the oven until it’s done enough for you and your family. 😂

For this dish, I loosely followed @halfbakedharvest recipe for caprese garlic bread with crispy prosciutto. I subbed salami for prosciutto because that’s what I had on hand and I cooked everything instead of keeping it cold on top. 

That’s my favorite way to cook…read other recipes for reference, see what I have on hand, and make adjustments. The only thing I actually follow a written recipe for is baking 😉 

Now’s a great time to dive into your garden and grab basil and tomatoes! For more great tomato recipes (and recipes with details 😂) check out my friends along with our hashtag #homemakerscircle

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Today was a ✨perfect✨ homeschool day Not bec Today was a ✨perfect✨ homeschool day 

Not because I was the perfect teacher or they sat perfectly still in their seats and got 100% in their workbooks…

It was perfect because we were together and learning and enjoying one another. Comfortable and content at home. 🥰

It was perfect because I got to be the one they ran to when they found a giant peacock moth caterpillar, the little one shouting, “Mom! Come here! It’s a calerpitter emergency! Tell us what it is!” 🥹

It was perfectly natural and relaxed, despite poopy diapers, ill-timed giggles, misplaced supplies, squirming in seats, daydreaming, chatting about everything, and any other occurrence I could have called “annoying” or an “interruption.” It was perfect all the same. 🥹

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