Resilience. I’m fascinated by it. Turns out it’s an actual science that’s, like, studied and stuff. Very cool. Bouncing back from life’s fails that we essentially have no control over is a tricky thing to navigate. A twisty turn in life can sometime force you into coping with grief, regret, confusion, shaken confidence, tentativeness and all kinds…
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Fails & Forward-Motion. #ConnectHER15
Anyone else have a love/hate relationship with fear? (You know I do.) Sometimes I hate it. Sometimes I love it. Sometimes I don’t know what to do with it (or what to think about it) until I write a blogpost about it. My husband also likes to scare the crap out of me with all…
Summer learning… by doing nothing. {VIDEO}
Earlier this summer, I wrote a summer parenting tips piece for Today’s Parenting Team and got a lot of support and little bit of flack… just by talking all about how we will be doing “nothing” this summer. (Well, mostly nothing… we did have swimming lessons, a brief mini-gymnastics class and a week-long cheer camp thing. But…
Traveling Doctors & Date Night Dilemmas. {VIDEO} #IntelAIO
What to do when your husband jets off to a volunteer medical mission and leaves you at home with two wild women under the age of 5? Handle it, get stuff done and look forward to your next date night. Let’s be honest: I miss him when he’s gone (we all do at this house), but…
Friendship After Babies…
Friendships change after babies. They get bigger, smaller, better or worse. Some friendships last. Some friendships don’t. Some friendships end up in a gray zone. We all learn from our kids one way or another… I’m trying to learn more about friendship through my girls. When I was a toddler (literally, a toddler) I made…
Me Time Motivation: Get A Sitter. Go Shop.
Get a sitter for Me Time. Ha. Easier said than done… (this coming from someone who’s famous for stopping nice, responsible-looking teens ushering small children around on the streets of my neighborhood to ask them if they babysit and then reference my innocent-not-so-innocent little people trailing behind me in their flip-flops… don’t laugh). But seriously: The simple…
Disneyland with Grandpa. No princesses necessary. #Disneyland60
Every time Father’s Day rolls around, I usually write something about my husband (how he freaks me out, the things I learn from him, blah blah blah)… but I rarely write about my own dad. Because Dad is kinda private. You can’t even ask him to take a picture (with his own grandkids!) without him…
