I’ll be super honest- August really kind of kicked me in the teeth. Our schooling plan got changed last minute before the quarter started and full days of synchronous distance learning while managing two other tiny humans has been really hard. I just flat out gave up on most of my August tending list, which is the first time in a VERY long time something like that has happened so drastically. I’m feeling pretty low and part of me didn’t even want to do my Powersheets for this month, but I told myself a little is better than nothing so… You’ll notice for September I have SUPER scaled back because my one real goal this month is just to survive rest of the first quarter of school… and maybe cry a little less while doing it… Continue reading
family life
Thank You Twighlight Turtle
We have been in some pretty consistent lock-down status since mid-march. We live in a pretty small house for the five of us so it was always a challenge. The summer heat has made the challenge immensely more difficult. 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
2020 GOALS- Another G for the New Year…
Happy new year!! It should not be surprising to any long time readers that as we enter the year of Gs one of the focuses of this blog will be GOALS (Because hasn’t it always been a focus anyway?) I’ve finished my Powersheets prep for 2020 and I’m ready to share my goals for the new year! This year’s powersheets prep was a bit different as we know there is such a big change so early in the year. I tried to think of what it was like to do this prep work just before my second child was born but I must have blacked out that period of time because I have no memory of it whatsoever! Continue reading
2019 Wrap Up: Part 2
Well, here it is, my final blog post of 2019 and I am finishing up my yearly wrap up as I close out the year of F and get ready to move on to focusing on the letter G… Continue reading
2019 Wrap Up: Part 1
Can you believe we are in the final month of the year?! Today I’m wrapping up a few of the themes from this year and in January I’ll be introducing my themes for the new year… 2020, here we come… but first a look back at 2019: Continue reading
October Recap and November Goals
Here we go, on to the holidays and the end of the year… I can hardly believe it. Here’s a recap of October and a preview of one of my last tending lists of the year! (If you want in on the
2020 PowerSheets CLICK HERE!)
FAVORITES: How to Spark After School Conversations
I was talking with a friend of mine whose little one started pre-K this year and she was talking about how she feels like she can’t get her kid to talk about school at all. The only answers she could get were one word conversations enders or else “I don’t know” And I TOTALLY went through that last year when my son was starting preschool so I thought I’d share some of my favorite ways I actually get my kids to talk about school instead of just “It was good” and “I don’t know” Continue reading
Hello Summer! May Recap and June Goals
May always flies by because it is such a busy month, but it seemed to go extra fast this year!! Given how packed everything was, I’m pretty happy with how I kept up with my tending list goals overall and looking forward to what next month might bring…
