Welcoming Our New Addition

After months of preparing for our third bundle of joy, the wonderful day came a little earlier than expected. Just like my first two, he made his appearance a month early. With the help of my DSLR and great sun light I am so so excited to introduce him to the world!

Welcome to our family Mr. Wylie Patrick Williams 

It is amazing how he is already his own person. I can't wait to watch him bloom into an incredible man! 

Mommy Loves you!!! 

You Know You Are A Parent Moment

I am not going to lie, I do this probably once a day. It saves me from either pulling my hair out or screaming along with my kids. The only problem is I usually have two toddlers and two dogs on the other side of the door.

Have you found yourself doing this? 

It's Okay!

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What do you do when you realize you aren’t living the life you dreamed about? The life you saw displayed in magazines, movies, and television shows, the type of life that society has associated with “normal”. 

All my life I had depicted this image of what a “normal” life, marriage, and family were supposed to look. I would grow up to be a mother of four beautiful children who wore pearls and dresses while tending to the house and kids. I would smile all the time because there was nothing to be sad about. My husband would come home after a hard day at work to a gourmet meal on the table and his family exchanging stories about their day.  We would live in a standard suburban home with a well-tamed dog and excellently manicured lawn. I would dive the children around to their activities and sports in our minivan and cook for the bake sale and booster club.  Fights between spouses and daily troubles were not thought of.

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There is no fairytale life, marriage, or family. There is no “normal”. One of the biggest lessons I have learned after 3 years of marriage and 2 kids is that it is ok to just be you. It is ok to do what works for your family. What works for you.

I drive myself crazy trying to be the best mother and wife I can be for my family. I never want my husband or my children to be without or feel like they could have had someone better. This may sound crazy to you, but I just like to be my best. I think it is the control/ OCD side of me. I am still fairly new at this whole wife and mother thing, but I have found that it is important to find our families own identity. I cannot compare my family to that of those on television or in magazines because lets face it….THEY ARENT REAL!

• It’s ok to want to hide in a closet and cry when times get tough
• It’s ok to have arguments with your spouse. It can even be healthy for your relationship
• It’s ok for you house to not be wicked clean and tidy all the time
• It’s ok to have mac-n-cheese for dinner occasionally
• It’s ok to just want to be alone
• It’s ok to wonder what you life would have been like if you went down a different road
• It’s ok to skip bath time and go straight to bed
• It’s ok to not do the dishes every night
• It’s ok to totally hate the Disney Channel and all the characters on it
• It’s ok to just let you children cry themselves to sleep after a long day
• It’s ok to skip a few pages at story time to get to the end faster
• It’s ok to not put all the toys back where they are suppose to go
• It’s ok to want to have an adult conversation at the end of the day
• It’s ok to have your husband cook dinner and clean up
• It’s ok to get mad and yell
• It’s ok to be overwhelmed
• It’s ok to watch reality TV and eat candy in bed
• It’s ok to give into your kids and give them what they want just so they will stop whining or crying
• It’s ok the laundry has been sitting there for a week
• It’s ok if your lawn and landscaping isn’t perfect
• It’s ok if you have week old fast food bags left in your car
• It’s ok that you hid that really annoying toy your kids love and tell them it’s lost
• It’s ok to make bedtime a little early just to have time with your husband
• It’s ok to get a babysitter and enjoy a night out with your husband
• It’s ok that your still in your pajamas and your hair isn’t brushed
• It’s ok if you don’t sit at the dinner table as a family

IT IS OK TO JUST LET YOUR FAMILY BE YOUR FAMILY!!!! LET YOURSELF BE YOURSELF! LET YOUR RELATIONSHIP BE ITS OWN!

Sanity out the window

For the past two weeks our house has been crazy! Now when I say crazy, I mean diaperless babies running around screaming while I follow behind wondering where I left my sanity. 

Of course our road to the crazy house had to start right when the weather is getting nicer and there are a million and one things on my husband and my to-do list. I don’ t know if it is like this for all married couples, but my husband seems to live in this fantasy world that our home and everything in it just magically stays clean and put away. Now if he came home at lets say 11:25 am, right after my son finished his snack, our home would look like a miniature tornado just went through it. So one of the first things on my to-do list during the weekends is to catch up on the deep down dirt that my little monsters and three dogs like to drag through our home. Now for some reason this seems crazy to my husband who thinks that the only thing on the agenda is to tend to his “baby”, our yard.

Don’t get me wrong, I like to work in the yard every now and then to de-stress and give it my mom touch, but lets face it, the yard is dirty. I think I spend enough time during the week dealing with dirty things, I don’t really want to dive head first into a big pile of dirt that has bugs in it. Yes that may sound prissy, and I don’t care.

Anyway, I digress. For the first time in two years my husband and I thought it would be a wonderful idea to have a BBQ. This would be our chance to show our new friends our beautiful home while exchanging stories and sipping wine. At least this is what I had imagined in my head. Now for the reality, my husband left almost the entire to-do list for the day of the BBQ, twenty-five different chores to do in the matter of five hours, while chasing down a toddler, a baby, and two puppies. I was ready for bed before the party even started. By the time everyone got there I felt like a walking zombie, just going through the motions.

I don’t know who made it the social norm that your house has to be clean before you entertain. It’s really a sick joke. You work so hard to make your house perfect, then in the course of 3-4 hours it just gets trashed. There a bottles and cups everywhere, food left in all different corners, your sparkling floors went from perfect to having a slight brown film on them. Then by the end of the night you are so tired, the last thing you want to do it pick up the mess, so you go straight to bed to wake up to a kitchen that looked like it exploded in the middle of the night.  That is exactly what I woke up to this morning.

While I was cleaning my third load of dishes it hit me…..I had invited everyone to our Easter dinner party. Maybe that third glass of wine wasn’t the best idea. Lol. My Easter party has slowly been increasing in size over the past two weeks. The initial small family dinner was now a huge production with 30 people attending. My first thought was how in the world did this happen? I am not a cook, I can barley get through cooking dinner. But then the purpose behind the party came to light. Our celebrations and BBQ’s are to enjoy the presence of the people we like and love. There was no way I would have any of our friends or family be alone on a beautiful day, let alone on a holiday.  So, I guess for the next week our crazy house is just going to get a little crazier while I figure out how to organize an egg hunt and dinner party for 30 people. Thank god for Pinterest and mothers who know how to cook!

Have a blessed Week!

Hello Friends!

Hi There!
Welcome to Hester Way! I am absolutely tickled that you found my little piece of heaven. Grab your paint brush, Diet Coke and pull up a chair! I can't wait to see the creative juices flow!

With a crazy house full of little ones and dogs, i started Hester Way as a way to share my:

•  DIY projects
•  craft ideas
•  recipes
•  and family values

 with other families just like ours. In the last six months our perfectly quaint home turned into a cracker jack box with the new addition of our beautiful daughter Willow and our adorable golden retriever puppy "Bear". After much prayer we were able to pack up the craziness and move our family 12 hours away to the house of our dreams in good ol' central Texas.

We are so happy to call our new house our home and start making amazing memories here. One of the best parts of moving is the chance to turn a picture into a master piece. Hester Way is my way of documenting our homes transformation into becoming William Family perfect. Decorating is not an easy task, let alone decorating with the craziness of two kids under the age of two, but i think it can be done! I can't wait to share our journey with you. 

Cheers,

Kasha Williams