Dang it, totally forgot to post yesterday! I ruined my NaBloPoMo streak. Oh well… I spent 2.5 hours Sunday morning cleaning out my email which had somehow ballooned to a total of 1,100 emails. Ugh. My personal email has been more and more of a problem lately. I don’t really like deleting things on my… Continue reading Forgot about yesterday…plus some quick thoughts on email and sleep
Whew this was a busy Saturday. I had a list a mile long of things I wanted/needed to do this weekend. Unfortunately I can't say I checked everything off, but I did check off some big things, so, that's a win. Of course, as usually happens, I also did several things that were not on… Continue reading Lots of things + some wins
Jenny's post today was a little summary of 2 of my recent posts that she enjoyed, so I'm going to pay it forward to another blogger and share about 2 blog posts that I have enjoyed this week! Both are from Laura Vanderkam (actually one was from her Substack). #1. Get the pebble out of… Continue reading Recent posts I liked
Last night I had just enough time in between work and the swim team meeting at 6:30 to take Charlie on a walk on our "longer" loop. I usually listen to podcasts (or nothing) while I walk, but it was already dark out and yet I felt in an oddly peppy mood, so I decided… Continue reading Standing outside the fire
Ethan had his end of season soccer dinner banquet Sunday night. The coach is, ahem, very wordy, and the entire event was slated to run from 5:30 pm- 8:30 pm and it definitely went the ENTIRE time. Don't get me wrong, it was great. But also, long, and meant we got home at about 9:15… Continue reading A new woe: volunteering
Realizing now yesterday's post was probably a bit hasty, as I quickly pounded it out and hit publish without editing. Looking back, it's a little all over the place and dramatic and also sort of angsty sounding. ha. Ah, well. First, thanks to those who wrote supportive comments. 💗 You are all correct. I am… Continue reading More information
Ugh, my workout consistency has been fairly terrible...and not really short term, either. This is now officially an ongoing problem that waxes and wanes. Yes, it's true that I exercise regularly. But I just so rarely hit all of my target workouts anymore, or even all of my planned strength workouts. Back from 2015-2020, I… Continue reading More workout woes…
After Halloween on Friday, we've had a fun and very enjoyable weekend! My parents arrived around 4 p.m. on Friday and stayed until ~11:15 a.m. today (Sunday), so we had a nice chunk of time with them. They came with us to Ethan's big Sectional Final soccer game at 1 p.m yesterday. Unfortunately, the weather… Continue reading The rest of the weekend
And here we are, 2 months to the end of 2025! What. We had a super nice, low-key Halloween. Very different from years ago, but still nice. Our family tradition for Halloween is that I make chili and we have salad + French bread + Halloween cupcakes (or, cake, if you forgot to buy the… Continue reading November already!
Well, I went to write my October Recap and realized that I never wrote my September Recap! I can't have that!! I have not missed a single other month. I was going to attempt to combine Sept and Oct but as soon as I started I was like, nope. Who am I kidding. I don't… Continue reading September 2025 Recap
GRATEFUL KAE 