Earlier today I shared this post on the Not Your Average Mom Facebook page: It was a pretty popular post with lots of women really relating to it. I can definitely relate to it. It’s really easy to lose yourself in motherhood. Combine the needs of your kids with the need to work and make […]
self care
The Weed/Marlboro/Franzia/Cap’n Crunch Approach Is No Longer Serving Me
I had an a-ha moment yesterday. Let me back up a little bit first. I have been all over the place with my weight pretty much my whole life. As a high schooler, I never thought I was thin enough. In college I was on the swim team and I swam — a lot — […]
Monday Is The New Sunday
Now that it’s October we have entered swim meet season which means that 1-2 weekends per month will be spent at the pool. Number 6 also started wrestling this year, and he will have wrestling meets — do they call them meets? or are they matches? — on the weekends starting in a month or […]
An October Self-Care Challenge
We are almost into a new month! I am giving my fitness course and tribe members a one-minute habit challenge, and I thought I’d share it with you, too. One of the things we work on A LOT is developing very small manageable habits that are very easy to sustain. Once those very small habits […]
Three Things I Learned This Morning
Last week I wrote this post proposing that women shift their thinking around Mom’s Nights Out. Meeting regularly with women to talk and vent and just hang out without kids around is one form of self-care. I challenged women to plan a weekly meeting with other women that involved another form of self-care. Exercise. Today […]
We All Get The Same 24 Hours
Number 3, 4 and 5 had a big 3-day swim meet this weekend. For Number 3, it was actually a 4-day swim meet. It’s called Age Group Championships which is a meet you need certain times to qualify for. It’s like state championships for kids who are fourteen years old and younger. The way the […]