#ActuallyICan

I had one of those mornings where I wish I could just bottle it up and open it whenever I need a pick me up. I am blessed to have good friends. I have pockets of friends from different walks of life; forever friends, friends I ask for advice, friends that ask for my advice, […]

I just had to have the “you do you” conversation with my 9-year-old. I’ll spare you the long story, but turns out he’s being teased about something that he has little to no control over at this point in time. It concerns a certain skill set on a certain electronic box that a certain mom […]

That was the flavor of ice cream I had tonight. I thought it was a fitting title. I’m not really exhausted by my kids, just exhausted. I got up at 4:15 yesterday morning to work and then finally fell asleep this morning after 12:45 am. It’s a blessing having a mind filled with ideas and […]

This week has sort of been a blur. I don’t know if it’s coming off vacation or the weather or what. But, my whole family is tired. And I am starting to have to calculate what day I am on. Never thought I’d say that. It’s true we have a lot of irons in the […]

I better not be getting sick. I went to yoga this morning and could hardly stand to be in child’s pose my body hurt so bad. I just couldn’t explain it, I didn’t overdo it physically this week, ate pretty good and I was most certainly not hungover. I felt fine otherwise, except that I […]

I cry a lot. Not necessarily because I am sad, mostly just emotional. It can be out of frustration, fear, joy, sadness, gratefulness; whatever the occasion calls for. If you need a crier, I’m your gal. I have definitely been accused of being “too sensitive or emotional” or taking things “too personally”. I used to […]

“I don’t understand you. And why aren’t you understanding me?” This was the gist of the conversation that started out my morning. My husband and I have been working very hard on our communication skills but we had a momentary lapse of concentration today. It went a little something like this…you tell me if it […]

I like learning new things. Not in the way that you planners might like it. More like, “Squirrel?” or “that’s shiny…what is it?” I tend to fall in to a rabbit hole of information that just keeps going and going and going. One article leads to another and another and pretty soon I am three […]

I’ve got two weeks to go on this thing. It’s hard to believe actually. Even harder to believe that the past few days have been the hardest. I am finding myself thinking about sipping wine on a patio or having a cold beer after a day in my gardens. It’s sort of annoying actually. I […]