Teacher Appreciation Day at Memorial. My Seven S’s For some reason, words with S’s resonate with me. I have 7 words that I lean on to guide me through my day, every day. I recite them when I meditate, I cycle through them when my mind is spinning in the middle of the night, and I use them to help ground me when I feel myself getting swept up in things that pull me away…
So, Ben in I were in a rut for a couple of days. Nothing crazy, just got sort of distant and out of tune with each other. My problem is that when that happens, I usually start getting resentful…and, instead of trying to figure out how to carve out more time with him, I head in the opposite direction: I intentionally stop asking for his input on stuff at the gym, I try to avoid…
I am almost speechless. I just love this child so much. And, to be so lucky to be Baby Harley Love’s Mommy is truly one of the things I am most grateful for in this beautiful life I have. She brings me so many smiles, laughs, warm fuzzies, and is just constantly entertaining me by letting me watch her with this warm grin on my face while I watch her thinking to myself, “This is…
Last night, Ben and I took the little kids to see Jonah’s 6th grade chorus concert at Kennedy Middle School. I, for the record, LOVE things like chorus concerts. Dead serious. Especially middle school ones because there is no age that is more awkward and/or uncomfortable than the middle school age range. I just love how it’s that period of your life when you don’t know what to do with your hands, you feel like…
g Ok, that’s enough. I am going to out myself right here and now because it may be the only way to reel my nutrition back in from the little party bus I’ve been allowing myself to ride for the last God only knows how long. It all came to a head just now when my poor nanny and I were talking and she says, “After I saw you eating chips and salsa when…
