Hi dudes!I am a happy, home-educating mother to 5 lovely daughters ages 1-10. I am married to my college sweetheart, but you will most commonly hear me refer to him as my boyfriend. We are very slowly fixing up our 1930s home in the heart of Kansas. You can find us spending lots of time together as a family, thrifting, eating large baked goods with friends, and you can find me doing all of our favorite things in my very favorite Sandgrens Brett Nudes most of the time! I try to be intentional about choosing joy, even as we grieve, and genuinely want to be someone who makes the lives of those around her better. We hope that in sharing parts of our stories with the world around us, others will feel less alone wherever they may be in theirs.MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH MOTHERHOOD Nothing could have prepared me to love motherhood the way I do. It sounds dramatic, but when our first daughter was laid on my chest, almost everything about me changed, and for the better. I was actually in graduate school at the time, and by the time I graduated, and was about to enter the workforce as a Licensed Professional Therapist, we had 4 daughters and I decided to walk away from that to stay home and home-educate our daughters. It doesn’t come without sacrifice, but it has all been so worth it! What an honor it is to get to mother our 5 beautiful daughters! HOW I CELEBRATE MOTHERHOOD I like to celebrate motherhood in the simple moments every day! Saying yes when the girls ask me to jump on the trampoline or play pretend, soaking in the goodness that is our daily rhythm and evening rituals, making big hot meals, baking together, and just enjoying being with one another. Our oldest daughters enjoy sharing clothes with me now and we just about wear the same shoe size so it’s been so fun celebrating motherhood with them by sharing our clothes together. And good news, they also love clogs 😊 I got our oldest her first pair of Sandgrens, the Vienna Lows in Blush, and it’s so fun getting to match with her! I show appreciation for my Mother-figures by sharing our simple joys with them as well. I often will share a memory I have with my mother, now with new perspective as a mother myself, and call her to apologize and tell her how much I love her and thank her for everything she ever did for me. You don’t understand how loved you are by your mother until you are holding your own children, and then it almost feels truly devastating to imagine you ever did anything to hurt your mother. Watching my mother and celebrating her as a grandmother has been so incredible and I try to tell her this often. The way I see it, you have two options as a mother; To view your children as blessings or burdens. And whatever you choose will be apparent to your children, the world around you, and in the ways in which you raise your children and experience parenthood. My advice would be to choose blessing, but that is a choice every mother must make. I hope our daughters will know that they are the greatest blessings I will ever know. With Love, Amanda Pahls @amandapahlsShop from Amandas Clog Collection here: → Vienna Low, Blush → Brett, Dexter Tan → Brett Low, Nude → Brett, Nude → Brett Sand
