I’m back from a two
day getaway in Charleston (okay I tagged along while my man judged a High
School Restaurant Competition!) and I’m feeling refreshed and inspired! I Wouldn’t
expect anything less from the city in which I spent my first six years of
adulthood in – a city that will always have a piece of my heart <3 ! Topping
the Excitement List is this new blog! I can’t wait to connect with women in all
areas of the Mommy Path, inspire Health & Wellbeing, and share my story –
about what it means to be aPre-Pregnancy Momma!
So a little bit about
me….I am 29 years old and living on the Coast of South Carolina and love it,
especially on days like this that hint at the reality that Spring truly is
right around the corner! The sun is
shining for us and it’s over 70!!! And my apologies to those of you up North
and experiencing unthinkable amounts of snow – I don’t mean to rub it in, but
it’s just that I don’t take this for granted either! I am a total pansy when it
comes to cold weather so feel free to make fun of me when I am complaining about
the temperature being in the 40s. I live with my handsome boyfriend of a year,
whom I am madly in love with, and he has an amazing and handsome little boy
that I adore and love spending time with! Just waiting for my man to put a ring
on it. Lol! Single ladies in a long-term committed relationship I know you feel
me here!!! He told me, It’s all about the
surprise. (uh-huh) I tell myself that years from now I’m going to look back
at the time period that I was waiting for him to propose and miss it; so I
should enjoy it while it’s here. It’s working…for now.
I am a Certified
Health Coach, recently graduated from the Institution of Integrative Nutrition,
and for me it’s finally a career in which both purpose and passion collide. I remember
being about 9 years old and my dad jokingly telling me that I should be a
Professional Student. Well that just sounded awesome until I realized he was
teasing! Still, until now it’s sort of been the only career that’s really stuck
lol! That and server! So I work to inspire Healthy Living whether it’s working
one-on-one, teaching nutrition classes, sharing Juice Plus, sharing and
creating healthy recipes, and other fun stuff!
What else…I love
doing yoga, am an avid runner, Health Nut, Choc-o-holic, sun-obsessed, hippie,
cat-lover (and mommy to 2), free-spirit, bedroom dancer, sensitive, intuitive
and introverted woman who probably forgot a million other things! Also you can
read about the beginning of my Health Awakening here!
Despite the title of
my Blog, you can tell from what I’ve told you about myself so far, that I am
not trying to conceive or have a baby any time soon. And let me tell, you my
man got very nervous when I told him I was writing about my Mommy Path! But that’s
not what being a Pre-Pregnancy Momma is about. Within the next five years I see
myself having kids, and the fact is that what I do today, especially when it
comes to my own health, is going to affect my kids. So beyond preventing
something bad, I want to do things today that will produce a positive effect for
my future kiddos.
So I decided to come
up with the 10 Commandments for the Pre-Pregnancy Momma and while they are
centered on a woman who is not yet pregnant, I feel that all of them can be
applied to any woman throughout Motherhood as they focus on creating a healthy
lifestyle and body for Momma! As I go
through them I think you will agree!
Commandment One: I
will fight for Children’s Rights.
The Health nut in me finds this first
commandment to be one of the less exciting ones to talk about, but it’s where I
started to shift my thinking from self, “Mandy” to more selfless and future
oriented. Over a year ago I remember
reading a lot about a particular hot topic and thinking to myself “Gosh I hope
this gets resolved by the time I have kids”. Fairly normal thought, only it occurred
to me that my ideal five year plan included kids and this wasn’t just an issue
that was going to tie itself neatly into a bow by then. Five years was not that
long of a time and all of a sudden I was hit with the possibility of being pregnant
– and soon relative to my life-time. It was the first time that I thought about
how something in the news would affect my kids, and I remember thinking that I
needed to start advocating for this right – even though they weren’t even close
to being born. I didn’t want to be fighting for this right while they were
going through it, I wanted them to already have it.
So The First
Commandment is to be an Advocate for Children’s Rights. A Pre-Pregnancy Momma makes it a point to
know what going on in the world and in the news, especially on issues
concerning children. Whatever is important to you and how you want to raise
your kids make sure now that you will be able to do it that way. Be involved in
Children’s causes and support the local schools and community. Someday your
child will be part of this world so it needs to be the best it possibly can and
a Pre-Pregnancy Momma is one who makes it the best.
Now talk to me!! How
are you getting involved in Supporting the Kiddos?? Did anything I wrote
resonate with you?? Who are you and where are you from?? Let me know I’d love
to connect!
with Love, Mandy
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