This morning I was going for a run and I was listening, as I do usually do, to a podcast. I have a few favorites. I listen to Amy Porterfield for business stuff. For a good ass-kicking and a reminder to take ownership of all my decisions/words/actions/failures, I listen to Jocko Willink. And when I […]
Lessons I've Learned
What Your Teenager Might Be Trying To Tell You
We swim on a swim team that’s about 45 minutes from our house. Number 3 has practice six days a week, Monday through Saturday. Number 4 has practice five days a week on Monday and Wednesday through Saturday. Number 5 and 7 have practice three nights a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and I’m […]
Do You Want To Be The Woman On The Left Or The Woman On The Right?
I don’t know about you guys, but I think it’s kind of silly to wait until January of every year to get your life in order and decide to make changes. The only thing you gain by waiting until the new year is possibly a couple pounds. You are a couple months older, and you […]
Feeling “Mischievous”
A couple years ago I met a mom through the swim team when I coached her daughter. Her name is Hannah Munroe. She is a very cool woman who is a photographer and artist. She asked me back at the beginning of the summer if Number 5 would like to be a model for an […]
Some Days It’s Just A Sh*t Show
Today has been A DAY. Where you are behind from the very beginning and then things just kind of unravel from there. Today was a Monday morning where the lack (or total absence) of planning ahead and being prepared over the weekend came back to bite me in the butt. Hard. We had a busy […]
A Wedding To Remember
Seven years ago I was in desperate need of a babysitter, and I put an ad out on Sittercity.com. I didn’t really expect anything to come from it, but I figured it was worth a shot. That one decision led to an eventual knock on our door from a beautiful, smart, funny, ballsy, super cool […]
