At the start of this year, I thought long and hard about the things that I wanted to change about myself. I know that resolutions don’t really work for me… for some reason or other they are usually short lived. Instead, I looked to set challenges for myself… make at least 1 craft a week for 52 weeks… decrapify, declutter and clean my home… as well as a few others.

While I haven’t been perfect in my endeavors, I have been making progress and that makes me happy. I still have a long way to go before I am where I want to be, but I am moving forward… though at times it feels like I’m going sideways and backwards too!!

I was recently given the opportunity to review a book by Kaira Rouda called Here, Home, Hope. I had mentioned reading it once before and meant to write about it sooner, but time passes by so quickly lately… so here we are.

This book could not have come at a better time for me. In it the main character is a mother of two, who left the workforce to stay at home to take care of her house. While she was happy, she couldn’t help but feel like something was off… something was missing in her life. She started a T2C (Things to Change) list. She took charge of her life again and though it wasn’t always easy, she found the happiness, peace and sense of belonging that she was looking for.

While I can’t compare myself to the character in the book, I did find the story to be motivating. I devoured that book and it was finished soon after I began reading it. In a way it made me feel like the path that I started going down at the start of the year was a right one… I was just being to  cautious about it… that’s my nature. I am afraid to fail, but then again how will I know how I do if I don’t at least try (I know honey you have been telling me this for a while!). If there’s anything that I learned from reading this book, it’s that I need to step out of my shell and follow my dreams… in order for those dreams to become a reality, I need to also acknowledge them… I need to move away from baby steps and start taking some big steps!

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{The review above has been sponsored by the One2One Network. While I received a sample of the product mentioned above, I was not monetarily compensated and the review is written based on my honest opinion. Please click on the link to see my full disclosure policy.}