What's In a Name?

Heading back to my 31 day blog challenge, that is going to take the rest of my life to complete! ;)  Today's question was, "what's the meaning behind the name of your business?"



Well...I don't have a business.  Momma ain't got time for all that.

So, I thought I'd tell you the meaning behind my blog name instead.  It's really not much of a story, but let me tell you, I agonized over the name of this silly blog for far too long, haha! I felt like it had to be absolutely perfect.  It needed to be catchy so people would want to read it!  It needed to be some cute play on words!  It needed to reflect how in-depth my thoughts would be!



I'm serious, friends.  I have no idea what my problem was.  (I so wish there was a laughing crying emoji for blogger.)



In the end, I settled on a short and sweet description of our days.  Right now, in this time of my life, I survive on coffee and with two toddlers- we are constantly wiping off, walking on, and sleeping with (ha!) cookie crumbs everywhere.


*Exhibit A: Crumbs.  Poor second child had to get his own snack.  At least it was healthy? Haha :)

This blog is really just a journal for me and my family, if they choose to read it.  Every once in a while I do some fun posts about my thoughts on certain subjects or what toys my kids have loved at what ages because those kind of posts have been so helpful for me along my motherhood journey, but mostly I post about my kids.  And our life- our fun times and our struggles, our dreams and our realities.


*Girlfriend found the lipstick!  Doesn't she look beautiful?

So, my blog name, "Coffee and Cookie Crumbs" is just an accurate depiction of any random day at my house in this time of sleepless motherhood and messy toddlerhood.  Maybe one day, if I get some fancy blog design, I'll add a tagline like: "Finding joy in the messy moments of life" or "Our quiver full of messy blessings" (based off Psalm 127:3-5...you know it--children are a heritage from the Lord...blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.")

*My quiver.*

Anyway, I added a whole lot to this blog just to tell you the meaning behind the name, haha!  I hope you all have a great weekend!  I know I will...I turned in my last assignment of the semester this morning!  Now I have two glorious weeks of nothing before summer sessions start up.


*Doing the happy dance at 5:30 this morning after finalizing my policy brief and turning that bad boy in!

And please--I'd love to know the meaning behind your blog names!  Tell me I'm not the only one who  had such a hard time coming up with the "perfect" name, haha!

Blog-Tember Day 7

I'm a little late to hop on this train, but I thought I'd try to follow along with Bailey.  Two babies, school work, and new home chores may get in my way a bit and I highly doubt I'll be able to post every day of the challenge, but I'll do my best!

Today's challenge: Five things that bring you joy.

1. Hadley and Griffin.  This is probably so cliche but I can't even handle the amount of joy my children bring me.  It still tickles me to say, "my children" because how am I old enough to have not just one, but [TWO] children?? But here I am and every day I feel like my heart could just burst with pride and joy and these two humans that I made.  It gives me such a precious glimpse into just how much the Father must love me.  Unconditional.  Full of grace.  Pure, whole love. Shew!





2. Christmas.  I'm the one you love to hate.  The one who starts listening to Christmas music in July.  The one with the countdown on Facebook.  The one who puts up decorations on Thanksgiving and takes them down after the New Year has already rolled in.  It's magical, it's beautiful.  Everyone seems to be kinder around the holidays.  And I'm passing that love onto my kids because just yesterday Hadley asked to put Christmas music on to dance to.  Yesssss.





3. Spending time with my family.  There is just something about spending time with my family that heals my soul.  I grew up close to my mom, my aunt and uncle, my cousins, and my grandparents.  We were always getting together and most of my favorite memories from childhood involve them.  Now that I'm married and have babies, I love spending time with them.  Day trips to pick apples, lazy days spent in pajamas, date nights sans kids...these are my people and man, they are so much fun.





4. Travel. I don't get to do much of this anymore (adulting is so hard!), but I love experiencing new cultures and broadening my horizons.  One of my favorite summers was spent studying abroad in Belgium during college.  For our honeymoon, we spent two weeks in Hawaii discovering everything Honolulu and Maui had to offer- not just laying on the beach (how boring!).



5. Coffee.  Let me just preface this with: I. Need. All. The. Coffee.  My blood runs orange (Go Tigers!) but there is a whole lot of coffee running through these veins as well!  Not to mention the word "coffee" is actually in the name of my blog....so, there's that.  But I will literally wake up in the middle of the night and think, "only a few more hours before coffee."  If I could drink coffee all day I would.  The first sip of coffee is easily in the running for "best part of my day".

 

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A lot of things bring me joy and these are just a few, but oh, I love them!