I seriously debated not writing a post this morning because I am CRABBY. Went to bed crabby, woke up crabby. Dang it. Was hoping it would magically disappear while I slept. Why am I crabby, you may ask? That is an excellent question. I am crabby because my evening last night didn't go exactly the… Continue reading Using “the happiness equation” to solve my crabby mood
Happy, happy Monday, all! I had a fairly open weekend (only real "obligation" was Ethan's soccer game Saturday), so I came into it Friday night full of all kinds of aspirations. During my weekly review time on Friday I organized and cleaned up my ongoing to-do/ project list and was excited to hopefully wipe out… Continue reading The randomness of my to-do lists
I know many people who read blogs also tend to be pretty heavy "book" readers as well, so I'm curious: Where do you get the majority of the books you read? Are you Team Library? Team "Purchase the Hardcover"? Team Kindle/E-Reader? Team Audiobook? I personally am usually a combination of library + purchase, heavy slanted… Continue reading Books: Buying vs. library
How was your week? T- 1 week already until Halloween! Then it always feels like a downhill slide into Thanksgiving and Christmas from there, though I guess everything will look and feel different this year. I had a good week! It was a nice mix of productive and relaxing. Holiday Dreaming On Thursday afternoon Asher… Continue reading Weekly Wrap-up
A long time ago, my husband said something along the lines of, "I think happiness is a myth. No one is really happy "all the time." So much of life is unpleasant. I think happiness is really just brief moments sprinkled in among all the rest." This was years ago now, and I don't even… Continue reading Happiness and moments that make you go “ahhh”
Last week a podcaster that I follow asked for topic suggestions/ Q&A questions (in the working mom/parenting genre). I've had something on my mind lately that I truly think would make for a very interesting podcast episode: "How do you handle it when your child is not just like you?" The handsome child in question… Continue reading Personality differences
Housekeeping: First, a couple of quick housekeeping items. #1: If you are still accessing my site from the old gratefulkae.blogspot.com URL, please take a quick moment to update however you access my blog to the new gratefulkae.com site! If you follow me on Feedly, I don't think my posts will show up there anymore, unfortunately.… Continue reading Housekeeping + Would You Rather
I have this semi-recurring dream (probably every few months? I'd say at least a couple/few times a year). In it, I'm back in high school. (Not necessarily my high school- the setting isn't really important.) But anyway, I'm apparently in high school. Oftentimes I'm at home getting ready to leave for school, but something always… Continue reading What does this mean? 🤔(and other misc.)
If you recall, back in July I wrote a "Milestones" post, referring to both my 100th blog post and my son's 12th birthday. Well, today I'm writing another one! Let's call it Version 2.0 🙂 It's another two-parter. #1: SIX months of blogging + NEW SITE!!! Whew, this one feels huge to me right now.… Continue reading Milestones v. 2.0
I'm almost finished reading Solve for Happy, and it's one of those books I'm sad to be coming to the end of. I really love it.One big recurring theme throughout it is the concept of mindfulness. The author talks about how we so often spend a majority of our lives "living in our thoughts" in the… Continue reading A fascinating experiment in mindfulness
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