A friend of mine who reads the blog must have read the post I wrote about the special journals I started keeping with the kids, because as I was leaving swim practice last night she pulled me aside and she said to me, “If you want a way to connect with the kids, try sharing the […]
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10 Things I Learned in My First Week on Whole30
10 Things I Learned in My First Week on Whole30 1.Have a plan of attack. I started Day 1 with nothing prepped and my kitchen looking like this, and it definitely didn’t help. 2. You can eat a shitload of food on this program. It just can’t be crap. And how f***ing good does that look, […]
Next stop, Shark Tank.
It’s baseball season which means that Number 4 has been nagging me incessantly for the past three weeks about setting up a lemonade stand at her brothers’ baseball games to make money. I find her persistence both admirable and really fucking annoying. I told her I would help her out, but that I wouldn’t front her […]
Whole 30. I’m doing it. Here’s why (and it’s not because bikini season is upon us).
I started the Whole 30 Program on Monday. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, The Whole 30 is “a short-term nutritional reset, designed to help you put an end to unhealthy cravings and habits, restore a healthy metabolism, heal your digestive tract, and balance your immune system.” I don’t have any agreement […]
It’s time to acknowledge my limitations.
I’ve run myself into the ground again. I don’t know what my problem is, but I have this disorder or something where I keep taking on way too many things. I totally know better. I just finished the Boston Marathon a little less than a month ago, and rather than give myself a break, I […]
What the flip am I supposed to do with this?
The kids are growing up so fast and life is so hectic with one kid now working and three kids on the swim team, one doing baseball, one doing t-ball, and me working every night. I leave the house at 4: 15, just as the kids are getting home, and by the time I get […]
