This post was originally published on 5/27/22 and updated on 2/8/24 for my Greatest Hits blog series. Have you ever been convinced you would absolutely hate something and there’s no way you would ever do it, only to try it and be hooked and wonder where it’s been all your life? As I’m sure you…
Do you ever have one of those moments where it really hits you on how behind on your goals you really are? I recently had one of those on Easter when the shame I felt almost stopped me from saving a memory. One of our Easter traditions is to hide Easter eggs around the…
At any given time, my To Do list is hundreds of items long. Hundreds. That’s another problem for another day, but it does serve as a good reminder that I can’t really do it all. I try, and my list shows I really want to, but something has to give. When I was growing…
Yes, I’m that mom. My kids have asked (practically begged) for us to put up decorations for the last few years. My excuses for not doing so have finally run out. We built our current home about four years ago. Before that, lived in four different homes in less than three years. Needless to say,…
Late last week, I started feeling the way I sometimes feel when I swim in a pool or hot tub with a lot of chlorine. I wasn’t sure what triggered it, but I had a strange feeling it was the 20+ mosquito bites I got on our family walk one evening. It was the morning…
Sometimes it’s so funny how life works. This probably won’t be my most thought-out blog post or my meatiest, but I just had to get something out there about what happened earlier this week. For the last few years, I’ve really struggled with keeping my house in a reasonably-clean state. My husband and I work…
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 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…