Making the decision to stop coaching didn’t only free up hours in the day for me. When one part of your life is on autopilot, then there are other parts of your life that are also on autopilot as a result. And you don’t necessarily even realize it. Once I became accessible to my family […]
Archives for April 2018
NOT THIS
Sometimes you get into a routine, and it becomes so ingrained and so automatic that you don’t question it. You don’t reassess or reevaluate. You just run on autopilot. Over and over and over again. Like a hamster. Then something comes up and changes your routine and you have an aha moment. You see things […]
Because I Want To, Not Because I Have To
I am so excited for today. SO EXCITED. Today is a whole new beginning for me in so many ways. Too many ways to sufficiently discuss them all in one blog post. So I will start with just one. Today it has officially been six weeks since my surgery. That means I have clearance to […]
A Bucket Fills Drop By Drop And Then Before You Know It Your Kids Are Making Pancakes
Yesterday I had a good morning. And I just wanted to share it with you. Because maybe it will help you have a good morning like this someday, too. One of the things the kids love to do is help out in the kitchen. But it can be painful. They can take so long to […]
Mom Lesson #486
Number 4 has secured fairly regular babysitting jobs for two different families. Every job she’s done so far has been from about 5 or 6 p.m. to 10 or 11 p.m. She’s there for a couple hours, gets the kids dinner or dessert, puts them to bed, and then has some time to chill out. […]
im gonna have to ask you some Qu-estions
Watching three day swim meets is not all that fun for 6, 7, and 8-year-olds, so while we were up at Zones these past few days, the three little guys stayed with my parents. We didn’t come back until this morning, so my mom and dad were on egg dying, egg hiding, and Easter basket-filling […]