5 things I'm loving at the moment: 1. WEEKLY REVIEW: I am in love with my relatively new "weekly review" process on Fridays. (See post here for more details.) I actually find myself looking forward to it. Knowing that I have time blocked off to just deal with many loose ends + time to proactively… Continue reading Friday 5: Loving
Do you have a "favorite" side effect of the pandemic? That probably sounds like a weird question, but I mean, is there one outcome from all of the changes that you like the best? (I know we all really despise many things about it. But I think most people agree there are SOME perks to… Continue reading Silver Lining #1
Well, what did I say? Election day came and went, and what do you know.....HERE COMES THE SUN AGAIN! 😉 The world is indeed still turning!! Granted, we don't have a result yet. But, I'll go out on a limb here and predict an identical view from my sunroom window tomorrow at 5:55 a.m. And… Continue reading Wisdom Wednesday- #modestyfail 🙂
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
Last night I was sitting and reading my current non-fiction choice (You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why it Matters), and a couple of lines stood out to me that I wanted to share. "Everybody is interesting if you ask the right questions."-Kate Murphy, p. 40 I had to stop reading for a second… Continue reading Everybody is interesting
Halloween 2020 is a wrap. This is basically the end of "fall" to me, too, although November is obviously still technically fall. Things just start moving full steam ahead toward more of a Christmas feel I think, and the weather here usually turns colder, darker, windier, etc. Last night was a pretty quintessential "Halloween night"… Continue reading Halloween 2020 and on to November!
Connection You hear a lot of talk about kids and the pandemic, how bad this all is for their social development and especially their mental health. I was just thinking how very grateful I am that overall, my kids are fine in this regard. (I know this is so not the case for so many,… Continue reading Social Connection + Fun
Band Asher is in the school band and plays percussion. Even though their school is back in person, band is still being done virtually (the teacher goes to 6 different schools, so decided to keep it virtual to avoid interacting with many groups). Totally understand the reasoning, but it has been really, really bad for… Continue reading Friday 5
Crazy- it's October 29th already! Now only 2 days until Halloween. Besides working on the "Where's Waldo" pumpkin, this week hasn't felt particularly Halloween-y to me though. We still need to carve pumpkins! This always seems to get put off until the very last minute, every year. I don't know why. Maybe we all like… Continue reading Pre- Halloweening
I'm happy to report that my crabby mood basically dissolved into thin air after I hit publish on my post yesterday morning. So, either the time spent writing/reflecting on the happiness equation WORKED or the good mood fairy flew by and dusted me with happy dust. Either way, my day rocked. Errands and work: After… Continue reading Solved ✔
GRATEFUL KAE 