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…
Tag: mom of five
Check It
This week’s re-run was fun for me to re-read. My kids don’t really have these easy to answer questions and demands anymore. I kind of miss debating with my littles about why we stop at red lights and why we don’t eat raw meat. Time has flown way too fast and my littles are not…
Tippy Tones
Thursday Thoughts have kind of fallen to the wayside the last couple of weeks. There's been snow days, and sick days, and soccer days, and you know the whole being a parent thing where your kids actually have needs that you need to meet. It leaves little time for creativity and, you know, thinking. But…
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…
An Invitation
My sister just said the most brilliant thing to me and I must share: “Are you solving the problem or are you creating a new one.” Every single one of us should pause and ask ourselves this as we fight for the causes that speak to our souls. Are we fixing the problem or are…
Weighing In
I eat intuitively. I move my body 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 down inside…
Rest Well
I soap box a lot about the importance of honoring rest and restoration and also the fact that it will look different for everyone so I wanted to share what that looked like for me over the weekend because I found immense joy in quite simple things and instead of just saying “rest” I thought…
A Little Blurb About Yours Truly
I am trying to get better about letting you all know who I am and what you will find here so I am just going to take this opportunity to chat about, well, me. I started writing in my early teens as a coping mechanism for my depression and it is a theme that has…
No Way
I’d be remiss if I only shared posts when my words and work made it to print because for every piece I share that’s “made it” there’s been at least five that have been rejected. Within the last week I have had two pieces passed on and another that I’m drafting but the idea in…
Embracing Rest Over Rush
On Saturdays and Sundays my social media feeds are full of all the events families are busy doing and seemingly having the time of their lives. We,however, are the family that purposefully keeps our weekends quiet and free and that doesn’t mean free so we can make plans to run ourselves ragged that means free…