People very often say to me, “I don’t know how you do it with so many kids at home.” Sometimes I don’t know how I do it either. It’s often a shakedown cruise here at my house. But sometimes, we are a (sort of) well-oiled machine. And it’s for one reason: our kids have responsibilities […]
Lessons I've Learned
My parenting idol is an unwed mother who got knocked up when she was sixteen years old.
I’ve discovered why I love Gilmore Girls so much. And I’ll be honest. It took me a little while to get to this point. To the point of loving the show so much that I now feel the need to pace myself and ration episodes because I know I’m gonna be really depressed when I’ve watched […]
I’ll never be in hiding again.
Almost two years ago, inspired by Robin Wright in House of Cards, I cut my hair. It went from being past my shoulders, to above my ears. I’ll be honest. I was pretty scared to cut it short. But once I did it, I loved it. And over the course of the last two years, I’ve […]
12 Things I Do To Stick To a Modest Food Budget For a Family of Eight
Today a friend of mine tagged me in this question she posted on Facebook: Friends with large families — how do you stick to a reasonable food budget? Ooooh. I love a question about a food budget. And it’s certainly one of the questions I’m asked or comments I hear most often. How much money do […]
Because I like lasagna. And bulletproof coffee tastes like ass.
In the past four years, I have been very successful at losing weight. Unfortunately, I’ve also been very successful at gaining most of it back. As you know, last week I (re)joined a fitness/weight loss challenge since I’ve (re)gained twenty-five pounds in the last year and my body fat percentage now puts me in a category […]
The Best Laid Plans
One of the biggest challenges of parenting (for me, anyway) is having a plan for the day and knowing that it’s all going to run like clockwork. And then having reality set in. That’s when you wonder why ever you plan anything at all. Last week I had scheduled my first business call with the woman […]