With the craziness of our weeknights, I really want to bring back the Sunday night dinner whenever I can. Tonight I did. I had planned out dinners for the week last Monday, and I had everything I needed already. Here’s what was on the menu tonight: Roast chicken: (I used this recipe from Allrecipes.com. Everyone […]
Lessons I've Learned
I Kind Of Hate Trunk-Or-Treating (except for this one reason)
Tonight our town had a trunk or treat. I don’t really get trunk or treat. Like, if you can’t go trick-or-treating — which, let’s be honest, is all treating and no tricking — then sure. I get it. But there is plenty of candy to be found on actual Halloween. How many times do my […]
Faces In The Window
Tonight we found ourselves in the rare situation where we were all home before 7 pm on a Friday night. This hasn’t happened since August. Normally I’d take this opportunity to catch up on a few things. But earlier today I came across this post I shared on Facebook two years ago: And then you […]
Making Time And Decluttering My Brain
One of the things I work a lot on with the members of Not Your Average Fitness Course is using time effectively and finding time in the day to exercise (because lack of time is one of the biggest reasons women give for not making exercise a part of their routine). Recently I have been […]
Two Thousand Three Hundred Sixty
About a month ago I hired a virtual assistant to help me out with things here at NYAM. She completely overhauled my Pinterest page, and she totally manages that for me now. I also have her scheduling previously written posts to Facebook. Facebook is the biggest source of traffic to my website, and traffic to […]
Monday Is The New Sunday
Now that it’s October we have entered swim meet season which means that 1-2 weekends per month will be spent at the pool. Number 6 also started wrestling this year, and he will have wrestling meets — do they call them meets? or are they matches? — on the weekends starting in a month or […]