I’m going to be honest- I have no mental energy, no “emotional spoons” left for much of anything after just making it through the day encouraging the kids and trying to maintain some semblance of a new normal. Continue reading
A few more good things…
Oh man… I have really REALLY felt the weight of the world recently. It is hard to make myself write anything or get through more than basic survival and my mental health has not been at its best. I know one of the best self care things I can do besides moving my body is to cultivate gratitude, even (especially) when I don’t feel like it… so I’ve been brainstorming some more of the good things from our COVID19 lockdown: Continue reading
May Recap and June Tending List
It hasn’t been easy, but we are coming to the end of the first half of 2020. If you want to join me in using Powersheets for the second half of the year, you can get your 6 month edition HERE! And now, a recap of my May tending list and a look into what I’m focusing on during this final month of the first half of the year… Continue reading
A letter to my son on his 6th Birthday…
Sweet boy,
I have been writing you open letters on your birthday for four years now (and private notes the first two years before that!), but none of them have been written during such a time as this… Continue reading
Grief, Gratitude, and “The Last Normal”
This week is extra emotional for me in the milestones that have been disrupted… Continue reading
Raise Your Hopeful Voice- Celebrating 8 years of Marriage Plus a Q&A
Yesterday was my anniversary… or actually, OUR anniversary. Continue reading
Celebrating Life
I celebrated my birthday a week ago. Since then I’ve had a lot of people ask me how it was and my response has either been the tongue in cheek “as good as it could possibly be given the world right now” or the more direct and more honest, “Highly emotional” It was weird. I’ll remember it forever. And I hope that the best case scenarios come to pass and I won’t have to have a “socially distant” birthday again next year. Continue reading
April Recap and May Goals
I know I have been quiet on here. To be completely honest, Continue reading
The Only Writing I’ve Done in a While…
Whelp… I know I’m not alone when I say that this past month has been rough and that I have not felt like writing much on this blog. Continue reading
Goals in Limbo…
So I usually do this kind of monthly check in post just as the month is beginning, but I second guessed even writing anything this month with how scary and ever changing and exhausting the world is right now. To be honest, my goals seem so small and frivolous. But a friend of mine on the “front lines” reminded me that these small moments and joys with my family are, in the end, what they are fighting for people to have, to keep living for. This is also the easiest way for me to document what day to day life was focused on during this season. So here it goes
Alphabet Resolutions 