I am in North Carolina on vacation with my kids. It is my favorite place in the world. I have been coming here since I was in high school. That was over thirty years ago. I am about 40 pounds heavier than I was back in high school and college and pre-kids. I am comfortable […]
Parenting
We All Get The Same 24 Hours
Number 3, 4 and 5 had a big 3-day swim meet this weekend. For Number 3, it was actually a 4-day swim meet. It’s called Age Group Championships which is a meet you need certain times to qualify for. It’s like state championships for kids who are fourteen years old and younger. The way the […]
A Pretty Good Day
About five weeks ago I declared I was taking massive action and writing one blog post a day for 30 consecutive days. I had really fallen out of the blog writing routine, and I was super erratic with posts, and I wanted and needed to get some consistency back. I wrote 32 consecutive posts. I […]
Three Things That Happened Immediately After I Surrendered
Yesterday, after a lot of introspection over the weekend, I had a revelation. This revelation was partly due to me doing some work on my thoughts but it was also divine intervention. The Universe was like, SUSIE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. HELLO!!! WHY AREN’T YOU GETTING THIS??? And so the Universe intervened through a friend of […]
It’s Time To Surrender
On Friday I lost it on the kids. I yelled. I swore. I threatened. I completely panicked. There are lots of reasons I arrived at this point on Friday. And I did a lot of thinking over the weekend. Then this morning a friend of mine posted something on Facebook. She said, I was at a meeting […]
Don’t Be A Hypocrite
I was up today at 4 a.m. so I had time to take a shower and do a couple things before I had to leave the house at 5:30 a.m. with Number 5 and Number 7 for a swim meet. It’s been pretty much nonstop since then, aside from 3 – 4:15 pm when I […]