One year ago Donald Trump was elected president, and the country had a total freak out. I was reminded of this yesterday when a post I wrote the day after the election entitled It’s not a death sentence. It’s a wake-up call popped up in my newsfeed. In a nutshell, I wrote about people’s inability […]
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Are You Cultivating Your Creativity?
In the early days of this blog, I was sometimes a little bit aggressive. At the same time I was often overly defensive. I was exhausted and in the thick of it and feeling underappreciated and overextended and not very confident. While one of my goals in sharing my experiences was to let other moms […]
Because You Might Not Get One More Week
My current favorite podcast is Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations. (The Tony Robbins, Brene Brown, and Glennon Doyle episodes are three of my favorites). All the episodes are about thirty minutes long. They are the perfect length for a half hour workout. Today while I was on the elliptical, I listened to the Michael Singer episode. He’s […]
We All Get What We Tolerate
This past July when I was at a really, REALLY low point and struggling with having all the kids home and trying to work both in and out of the home and feeling hopeless about my marriage and being incredibly stressed out over financial stuff and dealing with this stupid injury in my butt and […]
My brain needs to start working out again.
Do you guys read a lot? I used to love to read. Then I had kids, and I was too tired to read anything that didn’t have pictures in it (except for (affiliate) The Book With No Pictures, cause the kids love that one). The exhaustion of having five kids under the age of 8 years […]
