New Year's Eve: We're officially into the new year now. The kids are still off today, but return to school Monday. Then the holiday season will officially be over. Our New Year's Eve was nice. Nothing extravagant, but nice. We both worked (though Ivan got done by 3). I worked a bit later, but then… Continue reading NYE + 2025 Goals Series Overview
I got a little behind after writing my Mexico City posts! Fortunately, the last few days have been rather quiet and relaxing, so I don’t have a ton to catch up on, really. Friday, December 29 We have done a lot of lazing around since Friday. I don’t feel we over-exerted ourselves in our Mexico… Continue reading Catching up and Happy New Year!
If one of your goals for this year is to decrease mindless phone/ tech use, check out this article from Techno Sapiens! She shares a bunch of great ideas for ways to cut back on your screen time. Even though I haven't included cutting screen time as a major goal for my year (those are… Continue reading Tech Use/ Screen Time Widget + early 2023
Happy New Year! It's the first Monday of the new year. New year energy, new month energy, new week energy! I am an absolute sucker for the "fresh start" vibe the new year brings. I know, I know.... statistically speaking, over 80% of people who make New Year's resolutions fail. Apparently 23% of people quit… Continue reading First Monday of 2023!!
Borrowing this from Lisa..... 1) What did you do in 2022 that you'd never done before? Traveled to Europe with my kids! Also went to two professional sporting events in Chicago (first time at pro soccer games). 2) Did anyone close to you give birth? Not that I can think of! 3) Did anyone close… Continue reading 2022 Survey
When I shared my Word of the Year last week, I commented that I'm very behind on all of these "new year" type posts. Oh well. Maybe it's not so bad- there's overload on the internet of that kind of stuff in early January, so I'm just helping to spread it out a little. :)… Continue reading 22 for 2022 List
It's February 16, so we're technically still in the beginning of the year. Right? Not too late for some "New Year's-esque" posts. Last year in 2021 my word was PEACE. I had picked that obviously very mid-pandemic- end of 2020/ early 2021. But for me, that choice wasn't really about the pandemic specifically or making… Continue reading 2022 Word of the Year
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
Happy final day of 2021! Wow, this really blows my mind. I remember NYE 2019 very vividly, leading into 2020 with all sorts of excitement....and then that all happened, and here we are now after yet another year. I wish I had time right now to do another year end recap like I did for… Continue reading Word of the Year 2021 recap
Ahhh I say this every time, but after any time away I really do love getting back into my normal routines. I'm such a weird mix....I LOVE traveling so much but I also LOVE just being at home. 🙂 It's January 12th today and I'm excited to finally really dive into my "new year's" stuff.… Continue reading Normal life & fresh slate
GRATEFUL KAE 