Move It or Lose It

📸: at Magnolia - I liked this wall for obvi reasons. Guys. This hashtag mom life is hard. Like really really really hard and for us- the hard has been hard-ing on overtime these last few months. I mean gut wrenchingly, heart breaking-ly, spirit shatteringly, difficult. Raising teens in a world filled with unlimited technology…

Night Lights

You know what? Life is hard. Sometimes the hard is so unrelenting and the pockets of joy are so few and far between and their relief so temporary that it feels like the hard is what life is now. When my kids were teeny tiny and I was in the trenches of toddler hard, many…

Body Balance

I eat mostly intuitively. I move my body almost every day. And here’s a snapshot of said body. My BMI says I’m obese. My belly looks lumpy and it is the antithesis of flat. Agree to disagree but I have no intention of losing weight or even trying to change my shape. Because something deep…

Ask Me

When I was a teen I spent hours connecting to dial up internet on our single family computer and scouring whatever search engine came with circa 1998 for inspirational quotes. I then printed out those quotes and pasted them in a spiral notebook that I would thumb through on the regular. Like a caveman. But,…

No Shame in My Depression Game

I get skiddish when I meet new people and then we become Facebook friends -mostly because I go and friend ‘em on Facebook. I suppose that makes me a bit of a massichist but let’s put a pin in that for now. I also find myself uncomfortable when my co-existing online and real life friends…

Shut It Down

Announcing a social media departure may be one of the biggest faux pas a millennial can commit but I’m a solid-born-in-1984-millennial and I don’t know how to do things without over explaining myself so here we are. It’s no secret that online apps have offered me more anxiety than education and it’s also no secret…

Thirty-Ducking-Eight

You know what, I haven't had a reason to take a selfie since I stopped posting on social media. But I'm taking one today because I’m having a good hair day and what better reason to shoot a selfie than when you’re experiencing your best self. Anyway, today I’m thinking about the fact that I'm…

Thursday Thoughts on 30 Days

Alright. I made it. Ish. No, I think I can say I actually made it through the 30 day yoga journey even if I only completed 25 days in said 30. Turns out I do feel kind of proud of myself for actually doing it. And I could sit here and tell you everything that…

Untold Stories: Kids Edition

I don't talk about my kids a lot anymore. I used to when their problems were small and the solutions were simple. When the biggest struggle I had was finding the balance between their need for snuggle time and my need for down time or how to juggle their nap time with my needing to…

Pick Up Where You Throw Down

I don’t have too much to share today because, well, I’m in the throws of COVID recovery. If I haven’t mentioned it before- fucking COVID. Anyway, today is much better than yesterday but when I start feeling better I tend to be an over-doer and I definitely over did it. My bed space is calling…