Health
August Exercise Goal
My goal for the month of August is to exercise three mornings a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday). I started this week and did it all three days. I am really proud of myself because it was a rough week. I...
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Father’s Day
Today I want to wish a happy heavenly Father’s Day to Tom. We all miss you so much. T
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Child Care Provider Appreciation 2023
Today I just want to take a moment to wish all the early childhood educators out there a Happy Child Care Provider Appreciation Day. What you do every day matters. I know the world does not always recognize all that...
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Wellness Wednesday 9-27
For my first Wellness Wednesday post, I want to talk about the progress I have made over the last couple of months. I set a goal in August to workout three mornings a week and met that goal. I upped Read more…
Learning and Growing
To-Do Tuesday: September 26
Yesterday I talked about creating themed days for the blog to help keep me motivated and give me ideas when I’m stuck for an idea. My friend Rosie gave me the idea for “To-Do Tuesday”. I’m going to use it Read more…
Learning and Growing
Daily Theme Posts
I’ve been thinking about doing some daily theme posts. I thought they might be helpful, especially on days when I am struggling with what to write about that day. It might help inspire me with an idea. These are the Read more…
Health
Rest is time well spent
I read this in one of my devotionals this week. It was kind of a punch in the gut. Even now, I tend to see resting as time wasted. “Instead of sitting here, I should be… (fill in the blank). Read more…
Health
September 23 in 23 check-in
Here is my September 23 in 23 check-in: Well, this month has not seen much (if any progress). With 100 days left in 2023 (as of today), I really need to make some progress with this soon. Both my full-time Read more…
grief and loss
Magical Memories
This popped up on my Facebook memories recently. It makes my heart happy to read it, but also makes my heart hurt. Because you see, the little guy from this post lost his father earlier this year. I want to Read more…
Learning and Growing
Missed a day
I missed posting on the blog yesterday. It was the first day I missed since I challenged myself to post for 30 days straight back in May. It’s okay that I broke the streak. Today is a new day, full Read more…
Health
Six month update on wreck
Today has been six months since the wreck that I had on March 19th. There have been times over the last few months when I wondered if I would ever feel better. The loss of my grandma, the wreck, the Read more…
Learning and Growing
Joy Spotting
As I was watching a webinar recently, the speaker was talking about “joy spotting”. I’d heard that term in a previous webinar, but hadn’t thought about it again in a while. So I looked around for something right around me Read more…
Dating in my 50's
As I’m Dating
It’s been a little over a year since I went on the “dateish” and thus began the journey of dating in my 50’s. I waited over two years after losing Tom to even really consider dating. I wanted to make Read more…