KendraHalbert

Are you celebrating Christmas without kids or grandkids this year? 🎄

Holidays as an empty-nester can be weird.

While I know life season’s changing can be difficult it’s also a really great time to try something new.

Swipe through to see 25 fun ideas you could do with us Christmas without your kiddos and grandkids!

I’d really love to know how you’re celebrating this year? Will it be a big gathering or are you flying solo? What special plans do you have?

Can you spot the lie?

I thought it would be fun to do a little game and let you get to know me — Christmas style!

Questions are in my stories!

But first, I want to know more about you! 👋

✨Are you an empty nester? A grandma? A mom? A college student?

✨If we’re real life friends, what’s your earliest memory of me?

✨What makes you happy? Sunrises? Coffee? Tea? Dogs?

✨Why are you on social media? Fun, inspiration, family?

By the way, I am so grateful you’re here. 🫶

I’m a busy grandma and wife who spent most of my life serving in the Air Force while homeschooling my kids.

Now they’re all grown and I am almost retired (from the Park Service) and help my husband raise his sheep. (When I’m not sipping coffee or sewing). 💜👋

Love this!!!!

Here’s an idea! 🎁🌲

If your adult kids are not coming home this Christmas you can still find ways to bring that home-like Christmas love to them.

A favorite way? Care packages! 📫

Everyone loves to get mail and even better is when you get creative and set a theme!

Swipe to see 3 fun ways to bless and love on your adult kids not coming home for Christmas.

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🪹empty nest syndrome is a real thing and it left me feeling lost for a while🪹

What do you do when the people you love move away (and you’re so excited for them!) but you now have more time on your hands or an empty, quiet home?

You can do what I did for a long time (and still struggle with) — bury yourself in work and the comfort of your 9-5.

Or, you can intentionally start to enjoy the season you’ve been given.

Here are some simple tips that could encourage or inspire you.

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🚥This is the way I have felt so much of my life!! My brain goes and goes and not able to focus!

Until I was introduced to my Happy Juice that has changed my life! 🥤

😧What I didn’t know was how much my bad gut health affected my focus, motivation and energy levels! My gut, heart and brain and the connection between them - was misfiring!

💜Now, I’m feeling better, getting more done, able to focus, don’t suffer from the endless guilt of procrastination (not completely cured and still working on that), and I’m waking in the morning before my alarm!!!

💜What a change and a hope!!

🩷I would love to share my Happy Juice recipe and how you can get some - start feeling better today!!

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Another testimony from our wellness page!! My testimony is that they are delicious!!

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So I told y’all I had these sleep gummies coming and after reading all the testimonies I was super excited but if I’m honest I wasn’t sure it would work! Im always cautious.

I mean how quickly can these things work when they don’t have melatonin? And how well will my kids take them if they don’t have any sugar?

I was excited either way for how many gut healthy methylated vitamins they had but would they help with our kids sleep? 

Our bedtime routine for at least 6 months has been stressful to say the least. I mean to the point where it took at least two hours to even get them to stay in their rooms and then they would stay up playing for hours sometimes. Many nights we would all end up screaming and crying and begging them to just GO TO BED AND STAY THERE. 😭😭😭

So last night was our first try and I wasn’t planning on posting much at all unless I seen them actually help so I assumed it would be awhile if they did work….

WELL… 🥹😭😳 they loved taking them (I’m glad they weren’t super sticky and easy to chew) and asked for more (they each got 1.5 gummy). They took them and within 30 mins they stayed in their rooms quietly and less than 1 hour they were sleeping soundly. I literally SOBBED last night. I couldn’t believe it.

I texted my friend and I was like, this is incredible and she asked if I was going to try them too? I said well I am curious to see how they felt when they took them. All the ingredients are herbs and very clean but sometimes holistic things take time to work so maybe I would need to try them long term to see or feel any changes?

I took two then laid down. (They tasted like candy) Normally I have trouble turning my brain off even when I’m super tired. And lately I have been having some bloating and tension from eating on the go and carrying a 10 pound baby everywhere.

So as I laid there it was about 15 mins after I took them I felt this warm sensation in my muscles. I kept telling myself there was no way I was already feeling something? But I sure was. Then I felt my whole body relax and almost melt into the bed. It felt like how my body feels after a deep tissue massage. 😳

All at once I felt my jaw loosen and didn’t even realize I had it clenched until then.

BUT THE FUNNIEST BEST PART WAS… I felt my stomach gurgle and then I had a great big fart 🤣 and just like that all my bloating was GONE! And that’s why I like taking herbs that also help the gut.

Then in less than 1 hour after taking them I felt my brain turn off and next thing I knew I was out. AND I am someone who sleeps on my side and turns back and forth all night and last night I didn’t wake up to turn once!! 😳😳😳

To say I’m a fan is an understatement! Finding something that doesn’t just help our kids fall asleep but also helps them stay asleep all night, wake up with focus and good moods while also getting vitamins and nutrients to help their hormones and guts is such a blessing!

This mama is so happy!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

(Ages 5 and 3)

💜I’m going to need this pep tomorrow when I wake up at 3 AM to catch my airplane.

Convention here I come! 🛫

This little chicken makes me happy — but I’m joy-filled because God is good and loves us!

What brings you joy? What makes you smile? 🐓✨🌿


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Happy Monday, friends. 💜

What’s on your to do list this week? I plan to move my desk downstairs! 😜 That’s going to be a big project but I know I’ll feel so much better having a space for work that isn’t my living room!

So, what’s your plans for this week?

What a great weekend! 💙 Spent a few days with my girls at a local — lots of laughter, learning and love!

Thankful for and for all the husbands who watched the kids so the girls and I could have a rare weekend of girl time!

I’m so ready for a new week as I begin my new job.

Now I’d love to know — did you do anything that refreshed this weekend and what are you looking forward to doing this week?

Have you been wanting try Happy Juice but worried about the price? 🥤

I get that which is why I’m giving $50 back to the next 4 NEW customers who place a Subscribe & Save order of $129 in the next two days!

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