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Hi Babes! I’m Kirstin Czernek, welcome to my little creative space where I share about all things health, mommy, and living a balanced life. I own a fitness studio called The Balance Culture and I recently became a mom to two babies through adoption. This is my place to share it all, thanks for visiting! XO

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The world stopped on Sunday because Ari started sa

The world stopped on Sunday because Ari started saying “mama” 🖤

Happy Father’s Day to the most amazing Dad on th

Happy Father’s Day to the most amazing Dad on the planet @tomasczernek ! Tomas shows our kids he loves them in a million different ways throughout everyday but they’ll never know the amount he rooted for each one of them before they joined our family.
When I told Tomas that I felt like God was speaking to me about adoption from foster care as the way to start our family, he didn’t give it more than a seconds thought before getting so excited and dreaming through all that God could do with us through the process.

When we learned that Mia’s biological mom was pregnant with a baby boy and that they would come as a package deal, Tomas responded instantly responded with “let’s do this!”. I needed a day to pray but he was ready lol

When we got pregnant and found out Aria had Down syndrome, he immediately started speaking over her and all should would be, assuring me every step of the way of how blessed we were to have her even though I was so scared. Once she was born I would catch him all hours of the day praying over Aria and her heart knowing God was going to do a miracle.
Tomas has always been strong for me so we could be strong for them.
He took any apprehensions about our family and filled them will joy, confidence, and an unwavering faith in God that challenges me constantly.
Tomas, being married to you is my favorite thing in the world but somehow watching you love and rally for our children in every way blows that out of the water. Thank you for leading our family so fiercely, we have gotten to where we are because of the way you and God lead us 🖤

The number one question I get asked about adoption

The number one question I get asked about adoption is how I navigated the whole “not really knowing what I was going to get concept”. I get the question, I battled with it myself and had to get to a place with God where I ultimately had to completely trust Him, while also using wisdom.
I have to laugh when I get asked this question now because of how things played out in my life and for our family. When we were fostering Mia and Kai I was prepared for it all: medically complexities, special needs, behavioral issues, therapy’s and many doctors visits. We got trained in our classes in this way so we could handle the various things thrown our way. Thankfully we were able to bypass all of these things and have been so blessed by their health with little to no issues that we have had to deal with.
Then came sweet Aria, our biological child. She is wonderful in all the ways but easy would not be how I would describe our journey lol so much has come full circle but she does have special needs, she is medically complex, she has required many doctors visits and she will need additional help throughout her life.
Obviously, I would never change our family dynamics and we are so blessed by the perfect children God picked for us but I can’t ignore the irony here and laugh at how even when we think we have control or have a good idea on how things will work out, God always likes to throw us some curve balls to keep things interesting 😉
All this to say, use wisdom but fully trust God on how He decides to design and build your family. You and I can prepare in all the ways but at the end of the day it will most likely look very different than we think, and honestly so much better. Also kids are the best 🖤

I promise to teach my babies to love your babies.

I promise to teach my babies to love your babies. Period. 🖤

B L A C K L I V E S M A T T E R 🖤 #blackouttues

B L A C K L I V E S M A T T E R 🖤 #blackouttuesday

Trying to capture more every day moments in our ho

Trying to capture more every day moments in our home. Me cooking breakfast, kids eating it as I cook and everywhere you look there is a baby 🖤

Happy anniversary to the love of my life @tomascze

Happy anniversary to the love of my life @tomasczernek. Full disclosure we both forgot about it last week 😅 I’m going to blame it on 100 different things and pretend I didn’t silent judge people in the past who forgot their anniversary. So here we are celebrating us, updating our calendars 😉 and thinking about all the blessing that have come through our relationship these last 11 years 🖤

All the things I feared about your Down syndrome d

All the things I feared about your Down syndrome diagnosis are now all my favorite things. Choosing you forever Ari 🖤

Aria’s first real time to the beach (first time

Aria’s first real time to the beach (first time she was only a couple of months old) and she LOVED it!!! I was cautiously optimistic because a lot of kids with Down syndrome struggle with sensory issues and Aria is at the age where will could start to see some of that, so part of me didn’t know how she was going to respond to the sand and waves but she blew us away and loved every second! She was talking and squealing so much, like she came alive, it made my mama heart so happy 🖤

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The world stopped on Sunday because Ari started sa

The world stopped on Sunday because Ari started saying “mama” 🖤

Happy Father’s Day to the most amazing Dad on th

Happy Father’s Day to the most amazing Dad on the planet @tomasczernek ! Tomas shows our kids he loves them in a million different ways throughout everyday but they’ll never know the amount he rooted for each one of them before they joined our family.
When I told Tomas that I felt like God was speaking to me about adoption from foster care as the way to start our family, he didn’t give it more than a seconds thought before getting so excited and dreaming through all that God could do with us through the process.

When we learned that Mia’s biological mom was pregnant with a baby boy and that they would come as a package deal, Tomas responded instantly responded with “let’s do this!”. I needed a day to pray but he was ready lol

When we got pregnant and found out Aria had Down syndrome, he immediately started speaking over her and all should would be, assuring me every step of the way of how blessed we were to have her even though I was so scared. Once she was born I would catch him all hours of the day praying over Aria and her heart knowing God was going to do a miracle.
Tomas has always been strong for me so we could be strong for them.
He took any apprehensions about our family and filled them will joy, confidence, and an unwavering faith in God that challenges me constantly.
Tomas, being married to you is my favorite thing in the world but somehow watching you love and rally for our children in every way blows that out of the water. Thank you for leading our family so fiercely, we have gotten to where we are because of the way you and God lead us 🖤

The number one question I get asked about adoption

The number one question I get asked about adoption is how I navigated the whole “not really knowing what I was going to get concept”. I get the question, I battled with it myself and had to get to a place with God where I ultimately had to completely trust Him, while also using wisdom.
I have to laugh when I get asked this question now because of how things played out in my life and for our family. When we were fostering Mia and Kai I was prepared for it all: medically complexities, special needs, behavioral issues, therapy’s and many doctors visits. We got trained in our classes in this way so we could handle the various things thrown our way. Thankfully we were able to bypass all of these things and have been so blessed by their health with little to no issues that we have had to deal with.
Then came sweet Aria, our biological child. She is wonderful in all the ways but easy would not be how I would describe our journey lol so much has come full circle but she does have special needs, she is medically complex, she has required many doctors visits and she will need additional help throughout her life.
Obviously, I would never change our family dynamics and we are so blessed by the perfect children God picked for us but I can’t ignore the irony here and laugh at how even when we think we have control or have a good idea on how things will work out, God always likes to throw us some curve balls to keep things interesting 😉
All this to say, use wisdom but fully trust God on how He decides to design and build your family. You and I can prepare in all the ways but at the end of the day it will most likely look very different than we think, and honestly so much better. Also kids are the best 🖤

I promise to teach my babies to love your babies.

I promise to teach my babies to love your babies. Period. 🖤

B L A C K L I V E S M A T T E R 🖤 #blackouttues

B L A C K L I V E S M A T T E R 🖤 #blackouttuesday

Trying to capture more every day moments in our ho

Trying to capture more every day moments in our home. Me cooking breakfast, kids eating it as I cook and everywhere you look there is a baby 🖤

Happy anniversary to the love of my life @tomascze

Happy anniversary to the love of my life @tomasczernek. Full disclosure we both forgot about it last week 😅 I’m going to blame it on 100 different things and pretend I didn’t silent judge people in the past who forgot their anniversary. So here we are celebrating us, updating our calendars 😉 and thinking about all the blessing that have come through our relationship these last 11 years 🖤

All the things I feared about your Down syndrome d

All the things I feared about your Down syndrome diagnosis are now all my favorite things. Choosing you forever Ari 🖤

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