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Ann McCool is a wife, mother, Jesus lover and California native. She is passionate about nurturing all the good things of life through deep faith, self-care and a balanced portion of sacrificial living. You can usually find her armed with her planner, essential oils and a jar of green tea as she homeschools her six kids or roams around the Western New York countryside in their gigantic van.


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My Mom is visiting from California. She brought her inflatable kayak. She brings it everywhere. 
She sent me this last night. I'm over here wrangling kiddos and doing dishes and my Mom is out there #livingherbestlife. She's almost 70. She's so much more instagram worthy than me. The whole thing cracks me up. 
#mom #retired #instagood
"Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both!"
Mia Love

You know what's really encouraging? Sticking to your goals and then being able to better enjoy fun things when they come around. 
Now, if only I'd been sticking to my yoga goals all year so I could do fancy moves in fancy locations. That'll be one of next years goals :)
There's a small island within yelling distance of a small town on lake Ontario that holds around 85 years of history for my family. It's also home to the last bit of real estate in the state of NY currently owned by any relation of mine. Its the summer cottage of this relation, and since we've lived here this is his first visit back. 
Let me just say this: There is a number of people on this island who remember my family and one man made a point to come over and tell us some of his memories. For a girl who grew up 3000 miles from her roots, this is monumental. 
And, I didn't take a plane to get there. ❤
PS. My people love water. The roots type people and the smaller type as well. Absolute fish.
PPS. We may be making this a yearly thing!! 😢
#lakeOntario #lakelife #WNY



	
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