I first met Marie five or six years ago when she took an online course I was teaching to help women establish exercise as a habit. There was a closed Facebook group for the course, and eight weeks later, we were all more friends than participants. I met some of my favorite people through this […]
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Lessons From My 11-Year-Old
I don’t know if you remember, but back in March when we were 15 days into the Pandemic and the kids were really over winter and couldn’t wait to go swimming, I wrote this post. They were so desperate to be in a pool that they had filled up a garbage can with water and […]
What Are You Really Depriving Yourself Of?
In my experience, we are at the point where many people completely fall off the wagon as far as resolutions are concerned. I’m not a fan of resolutions — because they rarely result in true change — but I am a fan of evolution. I believe in always trying to be a better mother, a […]
Some Days It’s Just A Sh*t Show
Today has been A DAY. Where you are behind from the very beginning and then things just kind of unravel from there. Today was a Monday morning where the lack (or total absence) of planning ahead and being prepared over the weekend came back to bite me in the butt. Hard. We had a busy […]
A Little Reminder
I’m not really sure what the actual order of events has been in this whole process, but I coached a little girl for about a year up until I quit a couple months ago and this little girl also happens to be in the same class as Number 6, and I think the mom may […]
Mom, did you used to be pretty?
A couple days ago, I was in the car with Number 3 and he asked me, “Mom, did you used to be pretty?” Used to be? I looked at him in the rear view mirror. “Yeah, I think I used to be pretty,” I told him. I get it. I’m in my late forties. I’m […]