And just like that, it's December 20th! It's Christmas week. Love these cool wooden Advent calendars! (Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash) Here's a little rundown of where we sit: 🌲 Kids are officially on winter break! They have an extended, two full weeks off this year (originally planned when they had been in-person). 🌲Still… Continue reading Christmas week
I touched yesterday on the fact that I was feeling a bit of "gift fatigue". It's not even really just "gift fatigue", though that has been the department that has caused me the most headaches this year. The Christmas season is just always so crazy! It's one of those HUGE Catch-22s for me (and many,… Continue reading Christmas chaos
Morning! Now only 10 days until Christmas. My "favorite" part of the Christmas season has officially passed....I actually really love the time between ~Thanksgiving and right about now. Those early December days are the best, to me. Once we get into the final days leading up to the 24th, there's always a sense of anxiety… Continue reading Screens & vaccines
I feel very grateful right now that I ended up having a really great day yesterday (despite my #mondayfail start). Some good things: đź”· I was at a transition point for work (finished one big section of something on Friday, was about to start a new one yesterday). So I decided to take an hour… Continue reading Thank goodness
Gah. It's Monday morning and I'm totally off on the wrong foot. I normally like Mondays quite a bit- the whole "getting back into a routine" after the weekend. But I am very, VERY dependent on my morning routine to feel "normal". And today, I slept in. (I woke up at 4 am AGAIN and… Continue reading Monday fail
Yawn. I feel a little bit out of sorts this morning. Not in a bad mood exactly, but I think mostly just a little bit tired. I feel like it was kind of an intense week for some reason, though it really wasn't by normal standards. Now that I think about it, maybe it's because… Continue reading Tired + B-day Recap
Today is December 1, 2020. We are in the home stretch now of 2020!!!! Woooo!!!! One month to go until a fresh start in 2021. Honestly, I don't think anything will magically change when the calendar reads 2021. But given the general cultural, worldwide disdain for this year, I'll go with the flow and hate… Continue reading Home stretch
Kids: Living the school/life balance right now. They just finished 1st Quarter last week and got their report cards. Straight A's for both! I was super happy to see that they really seemed excited and to care about this. Thanksgiving break is coming up. They will have the entire week off instead of just a… Continue reading Life in categories
I like this pic I took the other day. I told the boys I took a picture of heaven. 🙂 I feel like I had a good week, thinking about it as a whole. All in all, I'd give it a solid A- probably. But when I was skimming over my highlight journal entries for… Continue reading 5 Bad Things
Oh boy, oh boy, the day has come. It's Election Day here in the U.S. I dropped off my absentee ballot yesterday (meant to do it sooner, but just didn't get around to it...). I had never voted absentee before, but decided to request a ballot because it just seemed nice to fill it out… Continue reading We Can Work it Out
GRATEFUL KAE 