Last week after a near nervous breakdown due to majorly overextending myself over the last year, I did some serious soul searching. And I started making changes immediately. For the past couple years, I have confused the words busy and productive. I have been busy for years. Like really, really, REALLY busy. Non stop. All […]
Parenting
This Morning Was Hard
This morning Number 3 left for Florida with the boys’ high school swim team. They go there every year for a training trip over the 5-day February break from school. The boys stay in a hotel and practice twice a day. They get the shit kicked out of them. The freshmen are super excited to […]
Letting Go Is Hard
Every week (or almost every week) I do a Facebook live where I talk about stuff that’s going on with me at home or things that I know many of us are challenged with. Last week’s Facebook live was inspired by my cousin who is in that stage of life where her girls are graduating […]
I’m Still Calling It A Parenting Victory.
A couple weeks ago we had a situation where Number 7 wore a “new” (hand me down) vest to school that she realized she really didn’t like at all once we were on the way to school. I wrote about it here. The short version is she left the vest in the car because she […]
Mom, Why Are You So Salty?
When I was in high school, I was voted Class Clown my senior year. When I was in college, I was given the PMA Award by my college swim coach. That stands for Positive Mental Attitude. If you asked my friends (both past and present) to choose one word to describe me, I can’t say […]
Mommy, I’m Proud Of Myself
Number 6 started wrestling in October 2019, about three months ago. It’s our first experience with the sport, and I thought it was going to really teach Number 6 a lot about hard work and perseverance and the importance of moving out of your comfort zone. And it has. But I think it may be […]
