Last night, I had three kids (my 2 + Kid 2′s BFF) and few dinner options. I am usually super-organized ahead of time as far as dinner, snacks and the like. Last night, I wasn’t. Kid 2 also informed me that we needed to go to the library for an emergency book she forgot all [...]
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I come from a family of hair people. Hair is one of our things. It’s important. We have lots of it, always long. I grew up with stories of my grandmother having her head crudely and painfully shaved when she arrived at Auschwitz. I grew up with a mother who put doing and styling her [...]
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I am fascinated by people who…. Actually seem to know how to enjoy themselves in the moment. Seem unburdened by regrets or anxieties from the past. Allow indignities such as disrespect to roll right off them. Know how to let it go, to let go. Know how to hang on when it’s worth it. Eat [...]
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You are beautiful, amazing, brilliant, powerful and lovable. I hope you know that. I hope you believe that down past your flesh and bones, into your heart. Your soul. Yes, you are all of those things. But, well…so is everyone else. You are no more beautiful, amazing, brilliant, powerful or loveable than anyone else. For [...]
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I looked up the word “enough” in my tattered Webster’s online and here is what I found: “adequate for the want or need; sufficient for the purpose or to satisfy desire. Synonyms: amply, adequately, reasonably.” Being the word nerd that I am, I was particularly intrigued by the synonyms. The same word can have similar [...]
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I am in my fourth month of this writing experiment. It’s hard to tell exactly what date I started because I don’t think I made a big announcement anywhere, and I don’t in this moment feel like scrolling through months’ worth of blog posts to figure it out. So lets’ call it four months. Which [...]
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I love how you feel fear and doubt and uncertainty, yet you forge ahead anyway. I love how you’ve gone hours before realizing you have something green and leafy wedged in-between your two front teeth. I love when you realize that “should” and “supposed to” aren’t in charge of your life. At least not anymore. [...]
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There was a long period of time during which I prided myself only on how much I could get done, on the amount of work I could complete in any given day or week, on how many days’ worth of To-Dos I could fit into one measly day. On pleasing, pleasing, pleasing and doing, doing, [...]
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I’ve been trying to be more grateful in my thoughts and beliefs. It seems like every other minute I am off on an internal tangent. I find it easier to snap out of it and come back to a better perspective of reality when I focus less on what I was actually thinking about and [...]
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Before I had kids, I’d heard all the stories. Everyone has them, and sometimes too many of them will share ‘em with you. Lots of them. About childbirth, bottles vs. the breast, sleeping, pooping, bathing, feeding, Onesies…you name it, someone has a story (or 10) for you. It can be scary in those early days, [...]
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