Dear Caroline, Today you turn 10. When I first heard the word tween, I thought it was marketing genius but no more. A term created in order for companies to sell more products. It turns out that while my initial belief may be true, there is much more to the word than I thought at […]
Read moreThank you to the wonderful Lindsey of a Design So Vast for introducing me to this fun meme. A: Attached or single? Attached. B: Best friend? The wonderful guy to whom I’m attached. C: Cake or pie? Cake if it’s chocolate. Pie if it’s blueberry. D: Day of choice? Friday. E: Essential item? My phone. […]
Read moreI love summer for any number of reasons but most especially for the books. There is more time to read. There are more book lists to peruse. And most importantly, there are more people reading. Doesn’t it just seem like there are more readers in the summer? More people to talk to about what they […]
Read moreI am sitting on the couch, dog scratching for attention, girls still asleep. I think I am finally coming up for air. We moved on Friday and tomorrow is the last day of school. As much as I had planned and controlled, moving is an act of letting go. Most of the work we had […]
Read moreA few years ago, I was part of an amazing group led by Lisa Garrigues, author of Writing Motherhood. One of my favorite prompts from that group was “the things you carry” in which Lisa asked us to write about what we found in our purse. Much like my nightstand, I find my purse to […]
Read moreIn Chapter 5, Brene focuses on the phrase, “Mind the Gap.” This term originated in 1969 on the London Underground to remind passengers to pay attention when stepping between the train and the platform. While I first encountered this phrase while reading Daring Greatly, it has apparently become so popular you can find it on […]
Read more“Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.” -Patti Digh
Read more*Image courtesy of Carol Hampton Rasco‘s Pinterest Board and Books and Other Geekery The other day I was sitting on the couch trying to calm my mind in the midst of the ‘moving/end of school year’ (what were we thinking!) craziness, when Katherine walked in to the room. I asked her to come and sit […]
Read moreThis week we closed on our new house and began a two week whirlwind of painting, electrical work, carpentry and carpet, counter, backsplash installation. For a girl who struggles a bit with change, making the gazillion decisions and answering the question after question has been challenging. I keep reminding myself that all this change is […]
Read moreCourtesy of the wonderful Maren! Chapter 4 ~ The Vulnerability Armory Brene summarizes this chapter beautifully in the introduction, I read this to my yoga class this week and then posed a question. I will do the same for you here…. “As children we found ways to protect ourselves from vulnerability, from being hurt, diminished, […]
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