Many many years ago, I was running an online fitness course, and a woman named Brooke joined the program. She was a single mom living in Florida and had two very young twin boys. She was pretty gung ho for about two weeks, and then life became extra lifey, and she kinda fell off the […]
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race
One of my current weekly goals is 10 minutes of strength training 5x/week. This week I won’t hit that – I’m 1/5 so far but will probably finish at 3/7 days this week. I have eight sets of dumbbells in my room: 3lbs, 5 lbs, 8 lbs, 10 lbs, 12 lbs, 15 lbs, 20lbs and […]
It’s supposed to be the other way around.
Last week my friend Jess, the woman behind Diary of a Mom, shared that she’d been invited to a friend’s house in the tropics. She’s a mom and she’s married and she lives in the Boston area, and the idea of visiting a friend’s tropical home in the middle of January sounded pretty awesome. But […]
A Trip Down Memory Lane
I found some pictures recently when I was going through some stuff in my office. My cousin sent them to me. They were from a trip we took to Puerto Rico about 25 years ago – the first of a couple different vacations we took to Old San Juan and Culebra. These pics were a […]
Happy 40th Birthday
When I was in 8th grade my mom gave birth to my youngest brother, Christopher. He was a suprise, and I was SO EXCITED. I was that kid who always wanted her mom to have another baby. I LOVED having a baby brother. A year and a half after he was born, Christopher was diagnosed […]
My Family Stone
We’ve been getting our Christmas tree at Stew Leonard’s for about 10 years. When the kids were younger we would pick out the tree and then walk through the Christmas shop. They have tons of ornaments and Christmas decorations. We don’t usually buy anything, but we look around. After checking out all the decorations, we […]