The Sunday Reflections post today is a short, sweet, and simple one. Smiles….the theme.

Why? Because the truth is that I hardly felt like writing this morning. I didn’t go to bed until about 3 am (yes, second night in a row – who am I), and I’m still on a high from the weekend. 

Friday night we saw Pink at the Armory, and last night we saw JLo. Her concert was crazy awesome, but the highlight for me? I was in the box right next to Mark Cuban (look right behind me).

The place was so loud, and he left shortly before the end, but I was dying to tell him that when he invested in Delighted By Dessert Hummus on Shark Tank that night, those were my images on set. 🙂

And ironically, a friend sent me an image of her with a jar of A Loving Spoon nut butter from 3 years ago last night, too.

I thought about how, back then, I wanted to be on Shark Tank and it was Mark Cuban I wanted to partner with.

Anyways, on the whole, the weekend was surreal. I feel beyond grateful for the wildly unreal experiences. (You can see it all still on my Instagram Stories.)

Smiles

A reader sent me this short message awhile back,

Morning! Love reading all your posts! You’ve accomplished so much Sarah and I think you’re an incredible person and mom! Prayers for your dad love seeing the smiles on your kid’s faces!

There are no Earth-shattering words included there, but I’m sharing it because of her last 8 words, “love seeing the smiles on your kid’s faces!”

We have all been smiling a lot (well, except maybe not Maya so much – ever – ha).

Everything has been bringing the smiles on. Family, friends, events…..life. 

Minnesota is full of smiles, even on hard days, because we have everything in the world here.

Xox,
SKH

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These posts will all live under “Wellness+Lifestyle” and also tagged with “101 Days of Blogging.” The 101-day series runs from Monday, January 8, 2018, through Wednesday, April 18, 2018.

If there is a topic surrounding change that you would love for me to include in this series, please just CONTACT ME.

Previous 101-Day Change Series Posts

1. Beginnings are Scary
2. Change Pain Point
3. Making Sense of Change
4. Gratitude Journal
5. Love Your Baby Girl
6. Little Things Add Up
7. House and Home
8. Sunday Reflections
9. Two
10. Chocolate Shake
11. 3-Ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Shake
12. Chaos is a Temporary State
13. Thirsty Thursday
14. Month One
15. The Nudge to Connect
16. 11 Favorites from 11 Years in California
17. One Box at a Time
18. Good Enough is Enough
19. There is No Dishwasher
20. WWDW Number 8
21. Move Initiated
22. Sharing My Journey
23. Back with the Tribe
24. Small Town Grocery Shopping Part One
25. January 2018 Catch Up Over Bone Broth
26. Patsy Clairmont is My Spirit Animal
27. Let There Be Light
28. Forgot About Rae

Last night was incredible! Let me tell you why, and then you’ll understand how this relates to forgot about Rae (not Dre 🙂 )

Pink at Armory for Super Bowl Weekend

Even with the flu, Pink put on this insanely awesome concert last night at the Armory in Minneapolis. 

I am a country girl to the core, but there are several artists outside the genre (like several, several!) that I love and can be found listening to at any given moment. You would be very surprised to know that I totally dig Godsmack and Ludacris, but you likely wouldn’t be surprised to know how much I love Pink. In other words, I’m totally this girl.

When I found out Pink was going to be performing at the Super Bowl, I wanted to go so badly.

And then my BFF sent me a text, “Pink and JLo. We are going.” Pink on Friday night, and JLo on Saturday night. 

My response, “I don’t know if I can hang like that.”

Her three words, “Oh shut up.”

Guys – I’m in bed like an old woman between 8-9 pm nightly. Remember?!

But there we were last night, at the Pink concert, and she didn’t go on stage until 11 pm. 

And guess what?

Incredible! 

She put on, hands down, one of the best shows I’ve ever been to. Her dancers are extraordinary – every single song was full of energy and excitement. 

I had tears in my eyes when she sang, “Who Knew.”

Different circumstances, but it was sinking in,

If someone said three years from now
You’d be long gone
I’d stand up and punch them out
‘Cause they’re all wrong
I know better
‘Cause you said forever
And ever
Who knew

And for her encore, she came back on stage to perform “So What,” while flying through the air, hooked up to cable bungee cords. 

I mean, it was a concert and experience (we sat up in VIP – a whole other story) I’ll never forget. 

And so I (and we) totally forgot about Rae. 

Confused yet?

Forgot about Rae

Ryan is coming up for Super Bowl stuff today, and BaNgoai is watching the babies tonight. Two nights ago, Ryan was all, “Oh shoot. What are we going to do with Reagan?” 

You do remember who Reagan is, yes? She’s our Great Dane.

And this made it the second weekend in a row that I forgot about Rae, totally unintentionally.

Last weekend when Ryan wasn’t here, I quickly set her up to go to the kennel so she’d be well taken care of while the kids and I were digging being back with the tribe.

This weekend, we decided that Ryan will just keep Reagan with him for the night. He’s such a rockstar husband!

Anyways, we keep forgetting about Rae because we never had to worry about this while we lived in California. Everything we did in California, all night and weekend getaways were planned far in advance, which also meant that Reagan’s plans were set far in advance.

But now that we are back in Minnesota, we are constantly on the go, doing things, seeing people. And many of them are on a whim, last-minute plans.

As I stared into the massive crowd last night, surrounded by people I love hanging out with, all I could think was, THANK YOU, GOD! Thank you for finally allowing my life to include this “problem” of forgetting about Rae. 

I am finally seeing how much happier life is when a LIFE exists beyond work and workouts and homebody-ing (that’s not a word, okay?). 

This part of the change, like the Pink experience last night, just incredible. No other words.

Xox,
SKH

If you don’t have time to read these posts daily, but don’t want to miss them, be sure to follow via Bloglovin’ and/or join my personal e-newsletter HERE. I am doing my best to send a once per week email recap of prior week’s posts.

These posts will all live under “Wellness+Lifestyle” and also tagged with “101 Days of Blogging.” The 101-day series runs from Monday, January 8, 2018, through Wednesday, April 18, 2018.

If there is a topic surrounding change that you would love for me to include in this series, please just CONTACT ME.

Previous 101-Day Change Series Posts

1. Beginnings are Scary
2. Change Pain Point
3. Making Sense of Change
4. Gratitude Journal
5. Love Your Baby Girl
6. Little Things Add Up
7. House and Home
8. Sunday Reflections
9. Two
10. Chocolate Shake
11. 3-Ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Shake
12. Chaos is a Temporary State
13. Thirsty Thursday
14. Month One
15. The Nudge to Connect
16. 11 Favorites from 11 Years in California
17. One Box at a Time
18. Good Enough is Enough
19. There is No Dishwasher
20. WWDW Number 8
21. Move Initiated
22. Sharing My Journey
23. Back with the Tribe
24. Small Town Grocery Shopping Part One
25. January 2018 Catch Up Over Bone Broth
26. Patsy Clairmont is My Spirit Animal
27. Let There Be Light