Every January 1st I vow/resolve/whatever to be more organized. And every year I fall short. But this year things have changed for me. Because since changing the way we eat meals and starting to sit down as a family (or mostly a family) for every meal, I have realized what I’ve been missing out on. […]
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Twenty-Six Days
The biggest gift I am giving my family this year for Christmas wasn’t purchased in a store. It wasn’t ordered online. It wasn’t even anything they asked for. Not directly, anyway. But now that I’ve given them this gift, I realize it was something they wanted. And something they needed. In fact, it was something […]
This Is Reality
Last week my parents came up to the house and helped me clean up my disaster of a house on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. My dining room in particular remains a challenge for me to keep neat and uncluttered. My dining room table always ends up as the dumping ground for laundry and inevitably, a […]
Mom, when do you eat?
We had a snow day on Friday and then an early dismissal due to snow today, so my schedule is a mess and I’m exhausted, so this is going to be quick. It’s been four weeks since I committed to this weight loss competition. I do not have any problem exercising. It’s a regular part […]