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 ✔
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
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