Always evolving, Never Average
The beginning of the summer is kind of like the beginning of a mini-new year for me. It’s the end of the school year. And with the end of the school year comes a whole different routine than the one we have from September through the middle of June. I don’t know about you, but …Read More
We all have things we want to change about our current situation. We might want to change our spending habits or something in our marriage or our weight or how we parent our kids or our level of fitness. But change is not easy. And our brains are wired for finding the easiest way to …Read More
When was the last time you said to yourself I’m not good at (fill in the blank) or I’ll never be ready for (fill in the blank) or I’m too inexperienced to (fill in the blank) or I’ll never succeed at (fill in the blank) or I’m too fat/thin/old/young to (fill in the blank) or …Read More
Every year when I am asked the question, “What do you want for Mother’s Day?” I say the same things. I want to be able to do all the stuff I used to before I had kids. I want someone else to clean my house. I want some appreciation for everything I do. But I …Read More
When I was a young mom, I compared myself to every other mom out there. My house wasn’t as clean as theirs was, my kids weren’t dressed as nicely as theirs were, I wasn’t as thin as them, as pretty as them, as put together as them, as organized as them… The list went on …Read More
Ten weeks ago, I, along with three other moms, volunteered to direct and produce the 4th grade play at Number 5’s school. We did this not because that’s how it’s always happened, but because this was the first year in as many years as we could remember that there was not going to be a …Read More
This is Number 3’s phone. I’ll get to the significance of the photo in a minute. First, it’s important to know a few things. Number 3 is in 8th grade, and he just got his first phone about two months ago. I believe he may have actually been the last person in his grade to …Read More
The week after the swim meet was our spring break. Rather than head back home, I arranged a few visits with friends, so we were able to spend a few more days in Florida basically for free. We left St. Petersburg on Monday and headed a little bit further south to see my aunt — …Read More
(If you missed the Road Trip, Part I, you can read that here) After three days in the car and over 1230 miles of traveling, we were happy to get to our hotel. We stayed in a Homewood Suites about 10 miles from the North Shore Aquatic Center where the swim meet was. Originally …Read More
Last year after looking at five million spring break pictures my friends were posting on Facebook, I vowed that this year I would go somewhere warm and tropical, too. I used to take a yearly vacation to Puerto Rico every spring break. Then I got married and had kids and that came to a screeching …Read More
