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One month in with this little padawan! Cece girl, we couldn’t imagine life without ya. Keep being your sweet little self, and May the fourth always be with you. 🥰 #thejepsons #thejepsonsathome
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My parents and my sister's family got chickens recently. I admit, a little (OKAY big) part of me was jealous. Adam and I had chickens for a long time when we bought our first house and for the years following. I LOVED it. But we sacrificed my love of chickens to sell that house and become debt-free in 2017. When we purchased our duplex rental property (which was also our home) in 2018, we didn't get chickens again...kinda figured our tenants might not appreciate it in the small shared backyard... Now, we have moved from our rental property to our current home (the increase in space has been a huge blessing), and we still won't be getting any chickens. This place is a rental, not a house we own. Which means my dream of owning chickens again and living that #minifarm life I loved is still on hold. My bees are at my parents' farm, and I dream of the day that we once again have our own house on our own property...just us. No renters. And maybe with a bit of land for my miniature cow to graze (guys, I'm serious!). What's it gonna take for this to come true? Time, hard work, and diligent saving. This isn't a sprint ya'll, although we are sacrificing a lot to make it happen as quickly as we can! A budget is one of the best ways to go about this. A budget isn't always popular, so I'm curious...do you budget? Why or why not? #thejepsons #thejepsonsathome
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Right now, I'm really missing hanging out with amazing couples like @itsdanlewis and @marieweibel! Ya'll, this fall is gonna be CRAZY...our calendar for both editing AND weddings is starting to look pretty full (which also means that if you are looking to get married this fall and you want to talk to us about photography...now is definitely the time!). What are you looking forward to after all this social distancing ends? #thejepsons #jepsonweddings #jepsonbrides
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Knowing that this will all end someday and we can go out again to visit our favorite places and people is a comforting thought. We will get through it together! Oh yea, and when we do, Adam and I are gonna go on a real date...like OUTSIDE our home kind of date (although watching gangster movies and Tiger King together has been fun recently!). We have been sitting on the idea that we want to do a cooking class together...whoa dream big! Now it HAS to happen. What places and people are you going to visit when the stay at home order is lifted?! #thejepsons #thejepsonsathome
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This guy. He mine and he FINE. @maltnpepper, better known to our family as Adam, or 'Daddy' for the munchkins, is a champion in the kitchen. A few years ago when I was struggling with juggling a baby, a toddler, a business, and making dinner at a decent time, he volunteered to take on the daily dinner duties. He claimed it was a release for him, and brought him life. Much like baking was for me. Me: UM. Go wit ya bad self. It's all you babe. What can I say? I'm a willing guinea pig. We haven't really looked back. In fact, we are looking forward. Not only did he take on dinner duties...he went so far beyond simple meal prep that he ditched his personal Insta to start @maltnpepper...in which he plays with his food on the regular. He's got big dreams for all this cooking, and he is awesome at it. I swear, his @webersummit might just be his new mistress. But it's fine. I'll let him have it--guinea pig, remember? What are we having for dinner tonight, you ask? Smoked chuck roast that he dug out of the freezer (quarantine is a good time to do that kind of digging). 🤤 He also made smoked bourbon creme brûlée on his grill...ya gotta go see @maltnpepper! And then follow him so you can watch his stories...we've been told drooling is a common side effect. What quarantine meals have you been making?! If you say cereal...you're dominating. #thejepsons #thejepsonsathome #maltnpepper
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I have one week left. One week until I have THREE children. One week to wait. One more week to hope and pray that Adam will be able to stand next to me in the delivery room. I'll tell ya, I was doing so well with all the #coronavirus stuff. I wasn't anxious--staying responsible, yes--anxious, no. I felt a lot of peace. Until my doctor told me last week that there was a very real possibility Adam may not be able to attend his child's birth, nor might he be with me for the days of recovery in my hospital room. Currently, the visitor policy only allows one visitor/support person for special circumstances, labor and delivery being one of them. In some hospitals, even that is changing to zero, and rapidly. First thoughts: Okay, not surprising, I get the reasoning. Secondary thoughts: That scares me. Anxiety thoughts: WHAT. IF. What if something goes wrong? Birth is an emotional enough ordeal...what if I'm in that room and something goes wrong? He won't be there. I've had to take those fearful thoughts captive sooo many times over the last week. Every time I get a visitor policy update from our hospital (twice last week alone), I tear up...dreading what it might say. Thankfully, as of Friday, the biggest change has been that we are required to bring masks to wear. And thankfully, we have two. Slightly dusty and dirty construction masks, but we dug them out of the garage to put with our hospital bags. And this week, there is another hope I'm holding onto. Our church (@cfclancaster) *virtually* sang this song by @HillsongUNITED on Sunday and I couldn't keep it together. I heard it loud and clear: God will be there with me. No matter what. Sometimes that doesn't seem good enough, he can't hold my hand, right? I need a tangible person I know intimately to go through this event with me, right? But in reality, he knows exactly what I need, when I need it, and he will provide. Alone is something I will never be. It's still scary. Honestly, I still get anxious about the possibility that I will HAVE to rely solely on this truth. But I know the truth, and I will speak it over and over again. What truth are you holding onto today? #thejepsons #thejepsonsathome
