✿ Taylor ✿

♡ Wife || Mama || Artist ♡

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

Forever my most precious gifts
♡ ♡

[Koe Wetzel @KoeWetzel]

Twas the night before February 28th, and all through the house…

[introvert @introvertsmemes]

when I put “???” in a conversation, this is exactly my face behind the phone

[Chase Gates @ChaseGates]

If you know anybody headed tward Tuckerman from Batesville.. tell em don't be fooled by clean roads, right past Black River Bridge is solid ice..

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

But changing how I *engage* with those thoughts is absolutely brilliant. And maybe that sounds dumb, but I’ve spent so much time focusing on stopping them when I should’ve been focusing on redirecting away from them. I’m just… whew. I’m tired.

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

I heard this on tiktok tonight, (in reference to anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and the impact that spiraling from those thoughts can have on you):

“You can’t stop them from happening, but you can change how much you engage with them.”

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

I’ve had SO many people say to me “well just don’t think those horrible things??”
And it’s like ?? I don’t?? Intentionally?? Think these things??? I just can’t turn it off, like stopping those thoughts is not an option whatsoever, I’ve tried for 27 years.

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

(In my defense, it was sanitized regularly)

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

kept telling myself that my scrub daddy was relatively new, but today I realized that I bought it shortly after the last stimulus check…………

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

shoutout to the young woman at hobby lobby today who told me I was doing a good job while Hask was in the midst of possibly his worst tantrum ever 🥺🥹

there are good, good people in this world

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

@layken_hutchins Can’t stop won’t stop

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

me: has never actually watched a single episode of Sister Wives

also me: binge watches tiktoks spilling the tea about Sister Wives

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

Some of them say Pinterest instead, at least 🥴

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

I’ve pretty much taught myself to cook from videos so it’s hilarious to me that when I eventually hand this recipe book down to grandkids or whatever, it’s gonna say
“From the kitchen of: @ (so&so) on tiktok” 💀

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

also here’s my husband’s grandmother’s handwritten recipe that I used to paint the cutting board

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

Lately 🎨

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

@mikayla_britt Thank you friend ily🥹🤍

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

My painted ornaments sold like hotcakes and I’m so so sooo thankful 🥹🥹

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

@layken_hutchins Ilysm🥹🤍

[✿ Taylor ✿ @tayloragates]

💀

[IG: closedapp @ih8rts]

me texting my friends mental health advice when I belong in an asylum

[hueyˊ @wydhuey]

send me one tiktok and ima assume we supposed to be sending tiktok’s for the rest of our lives