Welcome to My Next Best Thing!

Hi there! Thanks so much for stopping by! Welcome to the Next Best Thing community! I sincerely hope you find some nuggets of wisdom/entertainment/loveliness at OurNextBestThing.com that will help you explore your Next Best Thing in life –whatever that may be!

This first post will be on the longer side-but I promise not all posts will be this long…

This whole My Next Best Thing came about the fall of 2012, when my youngest entered full day kindergarten. My little guy walking through those school doors closed a beloved chapter of my life – my stay at home mothering years. Staying at home with my kiddos has been my absolute dream, for as long as I can remember. Sure, I went to college and got my Bachelor of Education and traveled and taught and worked and loved and married and explored other dreams, and through it all, Read more

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In the thick of it.

Thought it’d be fun to share this segment I wrote about 6 years ago for a local news station’s blog chronicling my experience of doing a stay at home mom segment on their noon news show. Makes me tired to read how crazy demanding most minutes of my life were when I was in the thick of it during those early stay at home mom years…

Remember those days?  How does reading this make YOU feel?  Bring you back to this phase of your life? Miss it or glad to be done? Still in the thick of this phase yourself? How are you doing?

Go ahead, leave a comment and share some wisdom….

Behind the Scenes of a SAHM’s First Ever TV Interview!

As a stay at home mom of 3 kids (6 years, 4 years and 8 months), life is hectic, not in a big city career woman way, more like a how quick can you clean up a diaper blow out and get in the van so your pre-schooler will only be 10 minutes late instead of 20, kind of way. Life is definitely not predictable, dealing with the incredibly changing moods of my kiddos, but it has a certain routine and rhythm to which I’m accustomed. Doing a 2 and ½ minute segment on NBC 15 news, does NOT fit into my little life’s natural rhythm!

When my dear friend Kelly roped me into this – at first I uttered a few choice words to her – but then I thanked her. What a wonderful opportunity to talk about my lifestyle – stay at home mothering. A ridiculously nerve racking opportunity, but one I couldn’t turn down. After the hemming and hawing and shopping and fretting and laughing and practicing and the sheer Read more

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