As a mom, I feel like my number one job is always to take care of everyone else.  I rarely, if ever, have someone babysit my kiddos and I really never go anywhere without them.  They are MY gifts from God and therefore they are MY responsibility.  This has always been my thought process for 15 years of marriage.  When I would hear mom's talk about monthly date nights or mom's night out or a vacation without the kids I would gasp!  Yup--totally was judgemental.  Truth--as women, we most often are!  But then something changed.  I would laughingly say it was Young Living, but it was a strange by-product of joining Young Living that I never expected.......FRIENDS! I met some of the most wonderful women ever.  I also started to learn more and more about self care and how advantageous it is to my entire family when I take care of me sometimes, even if for a short time. Last year I took my first ever vacation without my family!  I was a w...

Have you ever thought about the daily, sometimes insignificant choices that you make?  What do you do first thing in the morning?  Why?  Just because that's what you have always done and you really have never thought about doing it a different way? What if you were to think about the choices you make every day and actually CHOOSE to make sure that the small daily disciplines of life are actually benefiting you and not harming you.  For example, do you eat sweets every night while watching TV for a few hours?  Do you do this just because you always have?   What if you choose to change the process and eat some fruit while you read a book???  Small choices compound over time.  Think of the long term effects of the two choices above. The TV and sweets over five years will gain you some weight and probably very little to no knowledge.  The fruit and a book will gain loads of knowledge and better health! We make small choices every day t...

How? is the question I get asked so often when it comes to my life. How do you homeschool that many kiddos? How do you work from home? How do you do both? I pretty much have two words to sum up the answer to all of those questions..........God and Organization. First, I feel like God has ordained my life exactly the way He wants it.  Who can argue with that!  He has opened the doors for me to be able to be home to raise and educate my children.  He has blessed our business with abundance and He has allowed me the opportunity to start a new business that has been such a great blessing to me and my family. Second, organization!  This is key to everything I do.  Does this mean that my home runs like a well oiled macine with everything in it's place and perfet.  NOPE!  Many times in my world chaotic organization is the best kind.  But it is organization none the less. Running two business from home and homeschooling five kiddos plus regular...

Many people ask me why or how I began my journey with Young Living.  It definately was not by accident.  God had a plan and a purpose.  My husband had chronic severe migraines.  Sometimes he would have as many as twenty six or more debilitating migraines a month.  This is unbearable for anyone but especially unbearable for a self employed man who lives in a 1000 square foot home with his wife and five children.  Life was exhausting and hard. We went to many doctors throughout NY, MS, VT and CA looking for answers.  We tried all the migraine medicines, accupuncture, accupressure, chiropractic, nutrition, botox, special glasses, you name it!  Nothing worked.  We were at our wits end and had a medicine cabinet so full of drugs that my husband seemed like a zombie. I was fed up.  I knew that there had to be a better way but wasn't sure what that was.  Regardless, I knew that taking as many drugs as he was, my husband's body no lo...

Okay, so I have done lots of postings about what essential oils have done for my family, so let's chat about a few things that they can do for your family!  I am a WAHM of five kiddos that range from 4 years old to fourteen years old.  So preschool to teenagers.  Quite a gap and they all have different needs, not to mention me and the hubs!  I want to share in this post some of the areas that we use essential oils that may also bless you. 1.  SLEEP- hands down, best area right here!  When all the little(er) people sleep, Mama sleeps better too!  All of my kiddos sleep with diffusers in their room.  Sometimes we use these for sleep support oils and sometimes we use these for other "needs".  We will chat about these needs in a minute. My teenagers have found different smells that relax them and they just diffuse whichever they like.  Some of our favorites are Patchouli, Lavender, Cedarwood, Peace & Calming, Stress Away, and Frankin...

Have you ever been so passionate about something that it makes you almost cry?  I have....I AM!  I am this passionate about seeing lives changed.  I am this passionate about health and wellness.........BUT I am even more passionate about kicking cancer to the curb! Cancer Sucks! Do you realize that the American Cancer Society says that 90% off all cancers are preventable!  What does that mean?  LIFESTYLE choices are killing us.....literally!  Many people have the "not me" approach to cancer or the "well, if it's my time" ideaology.  I may or may not change your mindset, but at least indulge me for these few minutes.  I would love to tell you my story and see if it at least makes you think twice about what you allow in your house, on your skin, in the air around you....and in your mouth! When I was twenty years old, I had a twenty eight year old sister get diagnosed with cancer.  Yes---TWENTY EIGHT!  Most people would think lit...

How many times have you been asked a question and you are afraid to answer honestly?  How often are you asked to do something or be involved in something and you say yes or maybe, all well knowing that you don't want to?  How many times have you been approached by someone offering you something and insread of just saying "No Thanks", you just smile and listen?  Why do WE do this?  Yes, I do this often.....well, I used to do this often.  FEAR!  We are afraid to seem harsh, afraid to be honest, afraid to upset someone else, or afraid that someone will get mad at us? I am a non confrontational person.  I HATE conflict.  I will just smile and say ok before I cause waves.  Or at least that is who I WAS!  I broke free from this FEAR a while ago.  I have realized that it is okay to be honest, to say NO, and to sometimes stand up for ME!  And if the other person gets upset or angry, that is on them.....not me! I am a (brutally s...

I am the girl who likes to be home, like never leave home, have peace and quiet, and am afraid of people ;)  I have never "sold" anything in my life (before a year ago), and I rarely tell people about things I love because I just assumed they really didn't care. I have always worked from home, but at a "real" business.  The hubs and I own an electrical contracting business and I have always run the home office.  How many hubs get to go home with the secretary 😀 Well, I am the last person I would have ever expected to fall in love with a MLM business.  I am very skepticle of things and like I said....PEOPLE!  But, as I often do, I have surprised myself.  I got started with Young Living as part of a 15 year journey to get some answers and freedom for a hubs that suffered from severe chronic migraines.  Little did I know that this company would radically change our lives! Not only have we tackled the migraines, we have learned as a family and healt...

Essential Oils have changed my life! Everyone sleeps better, temperments are better, Momma Crazy is gone, hormones are under control and SO MANY other things.  I could go on and on about the awesomeness of these babies! But I will just leave you a video instead...it will save my fingers and your sanity ;) Listen to this video (it is not me) and then hit me up so we can chat!  Or, if you are SOLD, like I was then go get your kit!! http://bit.ly/christayl Essential Oils 101