For the past decade (!!!!), I’ve been following the advice to choose one word for the year, something to act as a simple guide rather than creating a list of resolutions and trying to follow through. It’s been a life-changing practice for me, one that’s helped me hone in on different aspects of life and… Read More Prioritizing in 2023
Post title lifted from a mom I had a conversation with recently Let me preface this post by saying that I understand how nostalgia works. We’re able to look back on a bygone time with rose-colored glasses, so to speak, and wax poetic about how wonderful things were back then. The word “simpler” comes to… Read More I want to parent like it’s the 1980s
It’s been a while since I’ve written the mantras I’m using right now. It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, really, but I’m back in the headspace where I think of things I’d like to share, so I’m hoping to do some of that in the next few weeks. My favorite thing about mantras… Read More A few new mantras
I’ve had this conversation with three different people recently, which usually leaves me thinking I should blog about it. Also, it feels very silly to have to preface this by saying that I’m not a mental health professional and that these tips aren’t meant for something serious like depression, but we’re living in these days… Read More How do you get out of a funk?
The best / worst thing iPhone ever did was stop limiting the number of Safari tabs I could have open at once. Remember when we were limited to eight? Or was it six? I probably benefited from that. There are a few tabs I keep open so they’re easily accessible. Some I reach for specifically… Read More Tabs I keep open
One of my most vivid memories from when I was growing up is something I said to myself as we drove out of our neighborhood, piled into my grandfather’s Suburban, listening to Patsy Cline cassette tapes and estimating our arrival time at the beach five hours away. It was a trip we took every summer,… Read More This is the moment you’ll want to come back to
Still on the One Little Word bandwagon? Me, too. A quick history of my past words…2014: intentional2015: joy2016: contentment2017: low-maintenance2018: less2019: finish2020: enjoy (kind of hilarious, never blogged about it) I finally settled on my word for 2021, and it is streamline. Now that I’m looking back on my past seven words and this year’s,… Read More One Little Word for 2021
Just popping in for a quick minute to share the two best books I’ve read lately. I checked out a copy of The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon as soon as it was available at the library. After I blazed through it, I… Read More Two Favorite Books
Last August, back when the world was still as we knew it, we were driving home from what I knew was our last JCC pool day of the summer. We’d had a great day with perfect weather, plenty of splashing to do, and a good toddler attitude (always a win). I was turning onto our… Read More The summer he was three
This post is the fifth in a series of posts about my experience working through Charity Craig’s Manifest Abundance 60 Day Challenge. This particular post is about my reflections on how I want to spend my time vs. how I actually spend my time. Here are the posts in order: #1, #2, #3, #4. Once… Read More A shift: time clutter