Hi, Friends! Welcome to our first day of blogging our way through the challenges in Sarah Mae’s new ebook Frumps to Pumps: Your One Month Motivotional to Getting Dressed and Staying That Way! I am so excited to have you join me on this journey!
For those of you who have been reading this blog for a while, for the next 4 weeks I’m going to be doing something I’ve never done before. I’ll still be telling stories about our family, but I’ll be telling those stories within a series of blog posts that correspond to the “Get Dressed Challenges” in Sarah Mae’s new motivotional ebook. “What’s a Motivotional?” you may be asking. Well, it’s half motivation and half devotional! Sarah Mae has done a fabulous job combining the two! Even if you don’t need motivation to put extra effort into your appearance, you’ll love the devotional part of this book! And if you do need the a nudge to get dressed in the morning, well then you’ll love the challenges this ebook offers!
If you happen to be reading today’s blog post in your pajamas, that’s ok. You will receive no judgment or condemnation from me on that one! Pajamas are just so… cozy! In fact, the reason I am publishing this post this afternoon instead of this morning is because we had a long night here at the Good Old Days Farm. Lots of up and down with this child and that child… lots of tossing and turning… I finally fell asleep at 6:00 am and woke up at 10:30 am! If you struggle, I want you to know that I’m human too and I’m right here in the trenches with you!
So, do you have your copy of Sarah Mae’s ebook Frumps to Pumps yet? If not, you’ll still enjoy the stories that I’m going to be sharing, but I won’t be reduplicating Sarah’s content. So, to join in the challenges you’ll really need your own copy of the book. To get it, just head over here for the PDF or Kindle version. If you already have Frumps to Pumps, you’re set to go!
Today’s reading is called “Who You Are” so I am taking the opportunity to tell you who I am and how I got to a place in my life where getting dressed in the morning is an actual accomplishment….
When I told my mother about this ebook, she said, “You mean there are women who need help getting dressed in the morning?” (Um… yes, mom. And you gave birth to one of them!) In my life pre-children, I used to be able to get dressed, eat, clean the kitchen and be out the door by 6:30. But that has become more and more difficult (near impossible!) as we add children to our family. In fact, when FarmBaby was a month old, my Sister-in-Law emailed me and said, “We love the pictures of the baby… but why aren’t YOU in any of the pictures?” Um…. There were no pictures of me with the baby because I was always in my pajamas!
Time passes and seasons change. FarmBaby is older now and I don’t really struggle with wanting to stay in my pajamas all day, but I am guilty of just doing the bare minimum for my appearance some days… a lot of days… most days… ok, I really only get dressed up for church.
This week will be the first day of spring. It can also be the beginning of a new season of life for you and I… the season of life where we put a little extra uumpf in to our appearance! Have you set a time that you’ll get dressed by? When I start challenges like this I tend to think big and make goals like, “I’ll be dressed by 5:00 am every morning!” Not surprisingly, some child has me up throughout the night and by 5:30 am on the very first day I’ve already failed! So this time around, I’m setting my goal for 10:00 am… the very outer limit that Sarah Mae suggested. That is very, very do-able. (Um… except this morning. If I have another night like last night my goal will be to get dressed within the first 30 minutes of being awake. Yes. That is do-able!)
Have you decided on a way to track your progress? If not, I’ve got a simple printable chart for you! Just click here: FrumpsToPumpsChart
What about a reward? After a month of getting dressed every day we will have developed some great new habits and that certainly deserves an award! How will you reward yourself? I’ve been eyeing flexiclips for a while now and I haven’t decided for sure yet, but that might be my reward! (If you’re interested in Flexiclips, I have a 12 year old friend who is selling them. Click here for her site! She is a great saleswoman-in-training!) What will be your reward? Please leave a note in the comments letting me know!
Thank you for joining me on this journey! I can’t wait to get started!
I was dressed by 8:00 this morning!! I had not thought about a reward, I like the idea
) ….I will have to think about what I need…..I usually wear my comfy sweat pants, and I am wondering how dressed up you should get, I have a feeling I have to move away from my comfy sweat pants, but into what? how dressed up should I be?…also, I love, love, love my Ugg boots for home…do they qualify as pumps?….just thinking out loud, you do not have to answer all my questions…thank you for your encouragement!
My goal is to be dressed by 6 am. Hubby leaves the house by 5:30-6 and we have to be ready to leave for my job by 7. This will end the beginning of June when I can be home full time. I am also in charge of doing chores for our critters on our farm, so that means a rush of dirty chores to getting kids together and then find a spare second to do make-up what? I’m lucky to get my hair brushed most mornings. Setting this goal will hopefully get me in the habit to take little more time for myself and make me a smidge more attractive to my hubby in the morn. As far as a reward, my birthday falls at the end of this challenge so I get a night of pampering in the big city If I can stay on task. Thanks the encouragement
I’m so glad to have you with me for this journey! How dressed up should we be? I think that totally depends on our husbands. I know my husband would die laughing if I served dinner in high heels (and then he’d tell me to save my back and take them off)! So heels aren’t his thing, but he likes perfume. A night of pampering at the end of this month sounds like a good plan…! (Papa the Farmer – Are you reading this???)![;)]()