A couple days ago, one of my friends posted this on her Facebook page: It’s been about 2 months since my breakdown, and it’s been about 2 months of It Takes a Village Thursdays here at my house. Every Thursday morning, 3 of my friends come over between the hours of 9 and 12. It isn’t […]
Archives for February 2014
Moms’ Night Out
11 short years ago I was single. Girls’ Night Out happened pretty regularly. I had one friend in particular who guaranteed that GNO would be pretty fun. A typical GNO with her went down like this: 1. Drink a couple beers at friend’s apartment. 2. Walk down the street to the bars. 3. Find some […]
Rated PG ain’t what it used to be.
I introduced the younger kids to Home Alone this past Christmas. Numbers 3, 4, 5, and 6 really like the movie. In fact, they have been watching it over and over. This past weekend we went to my parents’ house. They live about a half hour away, and the kids wanted to watch it in […]
I’m ready to kick some ass.
You know that a year ago I began a weight loss journey. And that is primarily what it was. All about weight loss. I lost over 40 pounds. And then things got a little crazy. My schedule changed around. I had trouble fitting in workouts. I had a tiny nervous breakdown. I got off track. […]
Pinterest. Crack for procrastinators.
A couple weeks ago, Number 5 came downstairs from her room to tattle on her sister. “Mommy! Number 4 put stickers all over her dresser!” I was a little annoyed. I went up to yell at her. But then I saw the dresser. She pretty much decoupaged it, and I thought it looked pretty cool. This […]
It was totally worth it.
Last weekend I wrote about how I procrastinated and put off this coaching course I needed to take to coach a meet and had to scramble at the last minute to take the course and then after all that the meet was cancelled and so I vowed to never procrastinate again. But at least I […]