The Good Life

I am notorious for having a messy bedroom. When I was a little girl/teenager, it looked like my room threw up clothes (and all other kinds of odds and ends) everywhere. In fact, it was so bad that when anything was missing in the house, my parents would say "look in Renee's room" and sure enough, it was (more times than not) in my room. I can keep my entire house clean...except my bedroom. As I've gotten older, I have come to realize that it's really not as much my bedroom, as the closet area. Until we built the house we live in now, I have never had a walk-in-closet (WIC). Not only have I not had a WIC, but Matt and I have never had a "master suite" with our own bathroom. SO, when we designed our house, we wanted to have both a WIC and a big master bathroom. Our master suite is designed where you walk into our bedroom and then turn into a little hallway that has my WIC on the left and Matt's on the right. and then you walk into the actual bathro...

The other day I saw a quote that said "working hard for something we don't care about is called stress but working hard for something we love is called passion." and it made me really think about my passion(s). I know I am passionate about my husband and kids and I work hard at being a homemaker. I am passionate about my Rodan+Fields business and I work hard at helping those on my team achieve their goals. But I also find myself thinking (a lot) about writing and coming back to this blog. Today, I sat down and read back through some of my posts. My journey over the past 5+ years has had ups and downs. We have added kids and new jobs and moves to the mix. I have grown in so many ways and I can look back on these entries and see the growth that has taken (and continues to take) place. I had high expectations of blogging every day, building something with it, sharing it and maybe exploring what this would look like for me. That vision has changed. I now know that this i...