HABIT CHANGE

I’ve been doing some self-care research lately. I’m always curious what other people consider to be self-care so I’ve been looking at pinterest boards, reading blogs, looking at the websites of [...]

This didn’t prevent me from eventually martyring myself on the altar of motherhood, however. I still found myself depleted, struggling, and unhappy. I had completely lost track of myself. I [...]

A little less than a year ago, my husband did a somewhat unusual thing for a man over 30. He joined the Air Force. At the time, I had no idea what to expect. All I knew was that we had a newborn [...]

There’s a fairly well known story about a professor and a jar of rocks and a lesson about our personal values, but I only recently heard about it when I was doing a mindfulness challenge [...]

Not too long ago, I was eating dinner with my daughter. We do picnic style, a blanket spread out on the floor. We don’t have a dining room table, which is intentional but sort of beside the [...]

I had a whole other blog planned for this week, but my heart isn’t feeling it. My husband left on Monday for the beginning of his service in the Air Force. He’ll be gone for 9 weeks, during which [...]

There’s no such thing as “impossible.” Think about the word itself, Doris: “I’m possible.” The quote is from a movie called “My Name is Doris.” Apparently, [...]

Flowers Milly picked for me after I picked her up from the babysitters~ This morning I got into a fight with my 3 year old daughter. In a few days, I might not remember what we fought about [...]

Parenthood is a bit of a catch-22. This is especially true if you decide to have a 2nd or a 3rd child. The thought is, “the first one wasn’t so bad. We survived. How much harder can a second [...]

Whenever Milly is being particularly 3 years old, I have a familiar story running through my head: “Why does my child hate me? Why does she love everyone more than me? Why is she perfectly [...]