Anyone else a few weeks into summer and already looking ahead to the next school year? Nah, just me? My kids have been out of school now for a few weeks and although it’s been so nice in many ways, it has also stressed me out considerably more than I usually am. My husband…
I have this really bad habit lately of focusing on planning instead of the doing. Do you do that? I sat down this week to try to really spell out all of my goals, timelines, milestones, and dreams and then map out steps to achieve them. I focused on three steps that would help me…
This week has drained me and the only post I can gather the energy to make is one with my mom’s yummy banana bread recipe. This is comfort food at its finest. No “healthy substitutions”, no clean ingredients. Just pure, sugary, yummy comfort. And since I hate posts that drag on and on before you…
This week has been a bit of a shit show and there is no reason to think it’s going to turn around any time soon. I won’t bore anyone with details of kid sports, end of the school year activities and tasks, baseball tournaments, big work releases and projects with never-ending issues. I will say…
Today’s post will be a simple story to serve as a reminder that even when you think you can’t, you can. You most certainly can. A few months ago, I read the amazing book “Everything is Figureoutable” by Marie Forleo. I loved this book so much that I purchased the physical copy, which is something I rarely do…
After my post last week about my current state of overwhelm, I did what I normally do when I have something big I really need to address and resolve. I ignored it. I kept on keepin’ on and spent the last week stressing out, worried about all my tasks, and getting some terrible sleep. This…
I almost gave myself an out from publishing a blog post today. For many years, I wanted to write a blog and I had so many stop and starts I lost count. For 2022, I decided I was going to stop that cycle and finally commit. I read a book (“The Common Path to Uncommon…
I have been getting myself up earlier than the rest of my family now for over four years. This means, every weekday morning, I get myself out of bed (without snoozing) sometime between 5:00 am and 6:00am, depending on my workout and what we have going that day. Maybe you don’t want to get up…
I love smoothies. At least six days a week, I have a smoothie, either as morning pre-workout fuel or in the afternoon as a treat and as a yummy way to get in my daily protein grams. Since 2018 (feels like a decade ago), I have been using the same exact smoothie recipe and only…
As I come to the end of my first 12 Week Year of 2022, I want to take a look back on how the last three months have gone. I find myself always wanting to review and learn from the past, but never actually taking the time to do it. For this blog post, I…