I’ve always been pretty open about my financial struggles and challenges, so it’s never been a secret. People offer me stuff they are getting rid of all the time. About 9-10 years ago when times were really tough I’d consistently come home to random bags and boxes of stuff on my front doorstep. The kids
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These hard times are when you are learning the lessons
Yesterday was one of the most emotional days of my life. So much crying. So much discomfort. I sat in my car in the ShopRite parking lot last night and sobbed for about 30 minutes. It sucked. I don’t like crying. And I do it all the time. I have always been a crier. Just about
You’re human. You’re going to mess up.
Yesterday while scrolling through Facebook, I saw this post written by my friend Jess at Diary of a Mom: She explained a conversation she had with her daughter about getting a Christmas gift for one of her aides. Ultimately the post ended with Jess realizing she had unintentionally messed up and apologizing to her daughter.
It Doesn’t Take 21 Days To Develop A New Habit
Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon who wrote a book called Psycho-Cybernetics in 1960. Maltz was all about helping people improve their self-image, not just on the outside, but on the inside. Something he discovered was that it took patients who had plastic surgery about 21 days to get used to their new appearance. He
When you break the chain
When you fall off track you don’t need to jump back on right where you left off like nothing ever happened. You don’t need to get back up to the same speed you were moving at immediately. Sometimes when we break the chain of doing whatever it is we’ve been trying to do consistently, we
16 and 53
Ingrid and I have birthdays that are one day apart. Last weekend she turned 16 and I turned 53. We started having birthday “experiences” nine years ago. When she turned seven we went for her first manicure and then she got her hair done. When she turned eight we spent the afternoon in her favorite