Friday night there was a high school swim meet being held at our local high school, so Asher's club team had to go practice in another city ~20 minutes away to find pool time. I drove him out there for 5 pm practice, and since it was farther from home, I had to just stay… Continue reading A peaceful walk destination & Gratitude Challenge Days 8 and 9
I still haven't had time to finalize my 22 for 2022 list, which I started on New Year's Eve. In a way I'm okay with it, because I feel like I'm sort of having a dry run/ trial week this week. I've been floating some of the ideas in my head, but not feeling any… Continue reading Vegetables
Well, this was eye opening. If you had asked me, "Did you workout a lot in 2021?", I think I would have probably answered, "Yeah, most days! Some stretches here and there I got off track, but overall, yes, more often than not." But data doesn't lie. 🙂 Here are my stats from 2021: *(small… Continue reading 2021 Workout recap + 2022 plan
First, some numbers, because this is the fun part about tracking stuff. Here were my "stats" for "number of days of intentional reading in the month" for 2021. (From January- May I was strict on trying to do Gretchen Rubin's "Read 21 in 21", so those were all at least 21 minute blocks. After that,… Continue reading 2021 Books
Just unboxed my new desk calendar, so it's official- 2022 is here!! I don't feel totally ready for the new year, meaning that I don't have my planner all set up and my goals list is still a work in progress (with question marks, circles, asterisks, cross outs all over the scratch paper I started… Continue reading Happy New Year + a new challenge
In a perfect world, I would have some very cute and catchy Thanksgiving/ gratitude themed post prepped and ready to go today, since, you know, "Grateful Kae" and all.....gratitude is kind of my jam....and it's THANKSgiving.... But, I don't! 😆 I actually had not one single specific thing in mind to write this morning as… Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving
Slipping in an unrelated photo of Ethan to start with.... outside his first ever piano competition yesterday! He looked so cute to me. And he played beautifully. 🙂 Last night Ivan was trying to figure out the date of something coming up, and asked, "Wait, what's the date today?" I replied, as usual, that I… Continue reading Sunday gratitude and cuteness
On my walk the other night I fired up an episode of the Hidden Brain podcast, with Shankar Vadantam. I hadn't listened to this one in a while, and the episode's title "Where Happiness Hides" caught my eye. Obviously, I'm a total social science/ psychology geek....LOVE that kind of stuff and I find it really… Continue reading Hedonic Adaptation + Gratitude
Well, sorry about that extremely negative brain dump post yesterday. I felt a tiny bit embarrassed to share all of that, in part because maybe it was exposing some inner insecurities and weaknesses in a public setting. 🙂 And also because it sort of felt like whining over "silly" problems. I generally think that stewing… Continue reading A post bad day good list
some fresh air for one of our tiny furry friends ❤ Last night I was in the kitchen quickly browning some taco meat before swim practice, and the nightly local news came on. In the first 30 seconds, they announced the top 3 stories for the evening. They were: 1) a heart-wrenching report of a… Continue reading A Good List
GRATEFUL KAE 