It’s day three of a 4-day swim meet. I’m one of the chaperones for my son’s team, and we leave the hotel at 6:15 a.m. each morning for the pool. Breakfast doesn’t start early enough at the hotel for the kids to eat before they leave for the pool, so one of the other chaperones
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Manor Buffet
I’m in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a swim meet Kristofer and Ingrid are swimming in. I’m one of the chaperones for Kristofer’s team, and they were super nice and let me take the kids. Tonight the team went to a buffet. Manor Buffet. I’ve never taken the kids to a buffet and Marit was in HEAVEN.
My 2023 Goal
I’ve been pretty impulsive my whole life. Words come out of my mouth before I think about them. A thought comes into my head and I act on it. I hear about something cool and I sign up for it. Someone implies I can’t do something so I do it. This impulsivity has its pros
Time to reassess
Life has been a little bit crazy lately. Unmanageable. Not because of the holidays but because I’ve just had too many plates spinning at the same time. Tonight was the banquet for the girls’ high school swim team. I went from boys’ high school practice to the banquet. I have so much to get done
A Different Approach
Last week I shared Marit’s Christmas list because it was so cute and also because it made me happy that it was so modest. Today Kasen gave me his list. Just like Marit’s list, it’s modest and reasonable and doable. He took a different approach when making his list. He typed his up on his
Keep Making Mistakes
Earlier today I shared this post from The Autistic Teacher on the Not Your Average Mom Facebook page: A reader left a comment acknowledging we all make mistakes, but also questioning, shouldn’t we be striving to be the best that we can be? I started to reply to this comment and then decided to address