List of posts

  • I have been finding all sorts of activities for my daughters to make sure their homeschooling journey starts with a bang. I have, of course, been teaching them since birth. But now we’re getting into traditional academics and I am finding resources everywhere and I am excited. I bought a couple of workbooks off of

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  • I’ve always wondered why celebrities take negative comments so personally. It comes with the territory. You know what you’re getting into, even if you have never experienced it before. You know to ignore the negative comments and not let it get to you. You know that there are people out there that are downright rude

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  • This year has been such an awful year that I saw this prompt and decided to run with it to search for the good anywhere in this past year. I was promoted. I found a migraine medicine that actually helps me. I was invited to and joined 2 honor societies. And then of course, my

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  • Lazy days definitely make me feel unproductive. I always have too much I need to do and I am very good at procrastinating. When I have a lazy day I feel less rested than if I just tried to get a lot of things done in the morning and was just lazy in the later

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  • I feel like this is a hard topic. There is never just one moment where you feel grown up. A lot of the time I still feel like I am 16. But there are several moments that hit me and I realize, wait, I am no longer 16, I am a full-fledged adult. Those moments

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  • Every night at 8pm, I have Google scheduled to turn off the TV and announce that it is time to read a book. My daughters hear that and they run into their playroom and pick out a pile of books and I alternate between their choices and read until bedtime. Last night, Isabella picked one

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  • I would like to learn to speak another language fluently. I took French in high school. I can still read it pretty well. When I went to France in 2016 with my now husband, I could speak better than I thought, but without the practice, I honestly cannot understand when someone speaks it to me.

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  • There is a big focus on mental health and attempting to destigmatize it. We’ve come so far, and yet there are still so many stereotypes about people getting therapy in this day and age. I have never understood that. When I was 9, my parents got a divorce, and the first thing my mom did

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  • Unable to Write

    My plan was to write every day, but with my busy life my goal was to put a post up at least once a week. With my schedule, that tends to be an ambitious goal. The fates seem to have a target on my back lately. With varying degrees of awfulness, imagine the past month

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  • The motivating factor I have for starting my blog is actually the answering to this question. With my girls still so young, it will take a while for the goal of my blog to really take hold, if it ever does, but the goals of my blog, aside from just writing about life in general,

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