Hallelujah + Amen

Christmas   I love Christmas. I love celebrating the birth of Jesus and the beginning  of the Easter season. Since getting married and having kids Drew and I have been able  to create our own traditions mixed in with traditions we both brought from our extended family. Early on I wanted to create a simple Christmas, with the focus staying on Jesus. We established the 4 gift rule, where are each child receive something they want, something they need, something to wear, something to read. Because I work at a church the past few Christmas’s have looked like our family serving and spending Christmas Eve or a day close to it with our church family. We usually get to spend some part of Christmas Eve with my parents which Consists of brand new Christmas jammies, my grandmother’s gumbo recipe, and a reading of the Cajun night before Christmas. When Drew’s parents aren’t in Tennessee we’re all together, usually in our home which has become so special to me. Traditions  Christmas

Nail polish is the worst For the past couple months I’ve been trying to stop biting my nails, I know, I know,  it’s a bad habit (thus my quest to quit). So I decided that the only way I was going to be able to not bite them was to have them done. I tried to do the whole dip thing that is amazing and beautiful but not really in the budget right now. My next attempt was to paint them, which was super annoying and no matter how long I let them dry I always seem to smudge one. Which led me to I’m not sure how I discovered them and I feel like I’ could be very late to the party, so if your reading this and are rolling your eyes saying that’s so 2012 then I’m really sorry. But I came across this whole nail sticker trend and I love it!!! I keep my nails super short so I can get 2 uses out of one sticker. All you need is a cuticle scooter thing (that’s the professional term), some manicure scissors, and an Emory board or this little four in one manicure cube (agin I’m sure tha