Yesterday I shared that I am getting divorced. This wasn’t a decision we came to quickly. In fact the process was officially started almost a year ago. But it wasn’t until last week that we shared this information with the kids. There are two reasons it took so long to really get the process moving. […]
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Evolution, Growth, and Self-Awareness
Everyone knows we are a big swim family. We’ve done lots of baseball and basketball and cross country and track. We’ve done karate and we’ve done lacrosse and soccer. This year we added wrestling into the mix. Wrestling is new territory. And it’s no joke. I went to Lehigh University, and they have — or […]
Embracing Discomfort
I am of the mindset that my purpose is to be constantly growing and changing. In order to be the best version of myself and the person I aspire to be, I need to embrace change. We all do. But change is not easy. Easy is doing what you always do. Easy is doing what […]
Sometimes I Forget To Take My Own Advice
I am one of the first people to preach the importance of allowing your kids to experience disappointment and discomfort and failure. To allow them to sit in discomfort without swooping in to rescue them and to make things better. And then today I was presented with one of those situations. I am not presenting […]
It’s Not Supposed To Be Easy
We all have things we want to change about our current situation. We might want to change our spending habits or something in our marriage or our weight or how we parent our kids or our level of fitness. But change is not easy. And our brains are wired for finding the easiest way to […]
What Happened When I Stopped Trying To “Fix” My Kid
I learned something about myself over the weekend. I thought I was pretty good about my kids being upset and not feeling the need to immediately “fix” things for them. Like if they forget and instrument or their homework and they want me to bring it to school for them and I don’t, I know […]