Dear Mom,

Happy Mothers Day. I wish I didn’t wait until a day like today, to tell you all the things I admire about you, all the reasons I love you, and all the ways I have been changed because of the mom you are to me. You deserve to hear these things everyday - so even when I’m quiet and moody, or it’s been a minute since you’ve seen me… know these things are true.

Mama, the safest place I’ve ever been and ever will be, is in your arms. Those arms that rocked me as a baby, comforted me when I was sick, and held me as I experienced my first heartbreak… that’s my safe place. Mama you taught me what it means to not take life too seriously. Thank you for being full of joy, and not allowing the “little things” to be deal breakers and for teaching me that there is always a time for fun.

Thank you for the things you do for me that no one ever sees, and I will never know about. For daily laying your preferences, plans, to-do list, and phone aside… just to be present with me. Your time is what I crave more than anything. You are my greatest confidant, my sounding board, the only one who will fully listen to my long winded stories.

Thank you for letting me learn. Learn my lesson, learn who I am, learn what I believe. You have given me the freedom to learn about this whole “life thing” on my own. But mom, your voice is what guided me the whole time I learned my way.

Thank you for teaching me what it looks like to be strong. To stand firm and full of faith, even when circumstances threaten to overwhelm you. You are the strongest woman I know, and because of your strength, I too have strength.

Mama, whether it’s state lines, oceans, or graves and galaxies that separate us… know that I will never be too far from your love. Because the way we love each other Mom?  It’s seeped from our hearts, into our very bones.

Happy Mothers Day Mom.

I love you.

What happens when life throws you a curveball?

We’ve all been there. We’ve all been headed in a certain direction, whether in your life, career or family. You have your eyes on the prize, doing all the “right things” to get there, when BAM, out of nowhere, you are either forced into a different direction or your heart is led into one.

I know I’ve been there. Honestly, Cindy’s Suds was my curve ball. This company was completely unplanned and I never saw it coming, but God did. It was one of those things that made no sense to others, yet I had to follow where the Lord was leading my heart. If you read my last blog *hyperlink here*, you read the story behind why I started my company. I had zero business background. I had zero drive to compete in the crazy corporate world. My core personality is and always has been that of a helper, not as a business person.. At the root of it all, I was just a mom. A mom who had a primal desire to protect her children and to create natural options for them.

I could never have imagined that I would quit my career as a Physician’s Assistant to start a natural bath and body company. I mean that’s CRAZY, right? But here I am, over a decade later.

I could never have imagined that by rolling with my curveball I would be walking in the exact path I was created to have.

I could never have imagined where my life would be right now… but God could.

Because following God’s promptings in our life? That’s always worth it.

Creating products that are providing moms and dads natural options for their families? That’s worth it.

So I wonder, have you experienced a curveball in your life? Maybe it was the loss of a job, a diagnosis, a change of heart. Maybe it was a change of lifestyle, whether willful or something you didn’t choose.

Whatever your curveball has been, I encourage you to trust. Curveballs are often just the thing God uses to lead you to what you've been created to do.

John 13:7 Jesus replied, “You don’t understand yet the meaning of what I’m doing, but soon it will be clear to you.”

XO Cindy

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