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 am currently working through a Morning series with my blog posts, and this week I want to talk about breakfasts. Ugh. Do we have to? I have two kids and they are both in the higher grades of elementary school. They have started to be able to get themselves breakfast in the morning, and…
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…
Soon, I’m turning 40. I cannot even believe I’m typing those words. Forty. Forty years old. Wow. When I was in my twenties, forty seemed so very far away. When I hit my thirties, I was excited. I felt like I was officially “grown up”, I had started having kids and was so happy to…
Apparently from my last post in February, I was back. Or more like, baaaaack. Was I though? No, it has been determined I was, in fact, not back. It’s been. A. Year. Just to catch up, a few weeks after my last post, lock downs hit due to COVID-19. School became remote. Toilet paper was…
Holy shit, we are at the end of May. Let’s just say exactly what I’m thinking. May is the absolute craziest month of the year for me. Work is insane. It is the busiest month of the year at my job, and it involves late evening conference calls 3 weekdays a week for at least…
As a working mom of two (busy) kiddos, I find myself failing all the time. Sometimes, I do get a mom win, and this past Easter weekend, I had a big one! Our lives are super busy right now. My oldest is about to turn eight and we had his party recently, which meant buying…
Saturday was a busy day. As in, we are definitely not prepared for Christmas to be 10 days away kind of day. My mom was able to watch the kids while hubby and I ventured out into the insanity in an attempt to finish our Christmas shopping. We were gone almost five hours. It was…