When I introduced my themes for the year I mentioned the one of my goals with the theme of JAVA was to move away from chain coffee companies and start embracing local coffee shops. I am a little over 4 months into this switch… and I have learned a few things during that time that I hope will keep me going strong with this goal… Continue reading
Family Road Trips: Why They Bring Me JOY (even when they are occasionally NO FUN)
I’ve been taking road trips with my littles for many years now. I’ve been writing about it too! You can actually read some tips for road tripping with kids HERE that I wrote back in 2017. But I want to talk a little more about the joy and challenges of this particular adventure since last month we took the longest road trip of our parenting years-
A Letter to My Son for his 9th Birthday
My oldest turned 9 recently and I had to keep this open letter tradition going, so here’s a little bit about the joy of being a mom to him… Continue reading
The Joy of Another Year
My birthday was yesterday! I had a pretty low key day yesterday but I just feel so Continue reading
Plot Twist: Switching a J
For the first time since starting this blog I am switching one of my themes for the year. I’m not going to write in here about Jars. Jars are still a personal focus and an ongoing project this year for me- (perhaps I will summarize visually on instagram at the end of the year?) but I wrote one post about them and was bored to tears trying to write it so I can’t imagine how lame it would feel to read it!
SO… I’m switching to another project based J that might be just as strange to write about, but hopefully a little bit more engaging… J is for Jam. Continue reading
A Letter to my Youngest for her 3rd Birthday
Continuing what I mentioned in my last post, here is a letter to my daughter from her birthday last month… Continue reading
A Letter to my Oldest Daughter for her 6th Birthday
Perhaps the greatest thing to bring me joy in life is becoming a mom to three magical humans. One of my favorite traditions is writing them open letters for their birthdays as one of the ways we celebrate them. So I’ll have two posts this month- an open letter for each kid. Today it is for my middle kid- my oldest daughter who turned 6 earlier this year. Continue reading
10 Books I read in 2022 that brought me JOY
Once again, I read over 100 books last year… (I promise I’m TRYING to find a better balance of my life activities but reading is just SO good and SO comforting!) Some years, I read a lot but find myself in a bit of a slump for enjoying what I’m reading. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case in 2022- I read a lot of great books last year. These are my top 10 books that brought me joy… (not necessarily my highest rated or objectively the best books, though there is definitely some cross over) Continue reading
Welcome to the Year of “J”
I wrote in my first post of the year about how the primary J for my “year of Js” actually means less blogging and publicly sharing and more private JOURNALING. Read on to discover the other three themes for this year of J. Continue reading
Ch Ch Ch Changes
I am starting my 9th year of blogging as Alphabet Resolutions. I can’t believe it has been almost a decade of doing this! And to be honest, I almost stopped with year 8. I very seriously considered shutting this whole thing down, and I’m going to talk about that a bit today before I jump into my year of “J” later this month… Continue reading
Alphabet Resolutions 