“How to Raise a Pro Athlete” sounds like the title of a best-selling book, doesn’t it? A book that would probably be flying off the shelves by millions of wild-eyed parents, envisioning their little Johnny’s name in lights. The fame! The fortune! The scholarships! Who knows, maybe this book already exists! If not, someone is probably… Continue reading How to Raise A Pro Athlete
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Creative Play and Another COVID Holiday Weekend
Good Saturday morning and Happy Memorial Day Weekend! 😊Here we go, another holiday. This one “feels” a little more disrupted to me in some ways than the others (Easter and Mother’s Day), I think maybe because we don’t usually have majorly traditional plans on either of those holidays in our household.We don’t actually really have… Continue reading Creative Play and Another COVID Holiday Weekend
Online School, Flexibility and Life Lessons
This is a quote that I have always really liked. I've heard it a lot in the fitness world, but I think it applies to all aspects of life. In the fitness and health realm, it refers to staying true to your goals (decisions) but knowing that there is more than one way to get there.… Continue reading Online School, Flexibility and Life Lessons
Happy Boys
Big news at our house! We have gone from a family of 4 to a family of 6. Oops, excuse me. From a family of 5 to a family of 7. (I momentarily forgot about Rainbow, the fish we already have).Meet Flint and Steel!We got these two little fuzz balls on Tuesday night and man, are… Continue reading Happy Boys
A Weekend with No Kids Activities
How was everyone's weekend??!! This was our 6th weekend home since the lock down began. We had some just gorgeous weather here in Wisconsin and I think everyone was trying to soak it up. It is going to be much cooler the rest of the week. My phone alerted me on Saturday morning that Asher's soccer game… Continue reading A Weekend with No Kids Activities
203 Days With My Children
Yesterday it dawned on me that with the closure of school through the end of the year, this means that assuming they return on schedule on September 1st, the kids will have been home full time with me for 5 1/2 months. To be precise, 203 days. The last day my boys went to school was… Continue reading 203 Days With My Children
The Perfect Day
While I try to generally look on the bright side if I can, I'm not honestly always someone who sees everything as sunshine and rainbows necessarily. I feel like by nature I'm actually naturally a bit more "pessimistic", which is why over the past 5 years or so I have actively been working on changing this… Continue reading The Perfect Day
Weekend Misc. and the Great Bedroom Shake Up
Oof. It is the weekend, but instead of feeling refreshed and ready to relax, this morning I feel a little bit like someone who was shipwrecked, had to swim 3 miles to shore, drag himself onto the beach and then realized he still had to build a fort out of banana tree leaves and try… Continue reading Weekend Misc. and the Great Bedroom Shake Up
Yo-Yo workout and another weekend at home
What a difference some sunshine can make! Although I am usually actually a big sucker for cloudy, cozy, rainy (or snowy) days, there is something about the first days of warm sunshine in the Midwest that just feels SO GOOD. Yesterday we had full sunshine all day, despite chilly temps in the upper-40's/low- 50's. I had… Continue reading Yo-Yo workout and another weekend at home
The final stretch: nearing the end of our 14 day strict isolation post- travel!
We are closing the gap on our 14 day quarantine post- travel to Mexico. Monday will be the two week mark (we got home on Monday, March 23rd). So far I have only actually left the house in the car once- on Thursday when we went to a nearby nature preserve to go for a… Continue reading The final stretch: nearing the end of our 14 day strict isolation post- travel!
GRATEFUL KAE 