It’s official. We’ve launched into our second year of homeschooling! This last year has been a crazy, thrilling, exhausting, frustrating, infuriating, fulfilling, discouraging, emotional, triumphant, and unreal ride. Are there more adjectives for “all over the map”? Public school was a struggle for my ADHD son. We had run in’s with his teachers, educators who […]
Over the last few months I’ve shared very candidly about my guy best friend — our friendship struggles, a letter to his new (now old – yah! Wait did I say that outloud?) girlfriend, and even a thinly veiled post helping him understand that he is enough… just the way he is. But what I […]
I’ll never forget passing by a young woman who walked to the daycare around the corner from our house. As I left for work each morning I would drive by her walking to work there. Depending on the time I left, I would see her at different points in her walk. I was always headed […]
In many areas of my life I am SO NOT TOGETHER. Like I’m a total hot mess. I’m always a day late and a dollar short when it comes to doing things as perfectly, gracefully, or beautifully as I’d like. But I managed to somehow get one thing right. I married the right man. I […]
Terroists. Police. Social Groups. Protestors. News and Media. Sorrow. Sadness. It’s all loud. It yells… pay attention to me! We hear it and feel it loudly. Sometimes it’s so loud you literally cannot speak. And sometimes, not speaking is exactly what we need. Somehow we’ve grown accustomed to an over-saturation of information. Our phones are […]
6th grade. It’s enough to rock any family to the core. Now let’s imagine a 6th grade boy with ADHD. Then add to that a failed IEP, a stinky Intervention Specialist, and puberty. It’s a recipe for major 6th grade failure. As the school year progressed I watched my spirited young man grow further and […]
We all carry a giant bag full of worries around with us. Often times those worries really weigh us down! They keep us from performing at our best in life and from being the best we can be. I’ve been thinking what if I just Let it Go! [cue overplayed song] Why do I […]
5 REASONS WHY I DON’T ENVY THE MODERN MAN I am a woman! Big shocker right? Since you came to my pink and glitter covered blog. Women, like me, deal everyday with the results of a male- driven world. Men get paid more. Men have more opportunity. Men are allowed to do anything they […]
It’s been about 5 months since my unexpected lay off. Since then I’ve been working diligently on building a business that will actually make sustainable money for my family. It’s not there yet… certainly not because I haven’t been trying. I’ve learned a lot since trying to create a work from home situation that works […]
So I ran across this article about bullet journaling by a fellow blogger recently and it was like all of my paper, scrapbooking, coloring, organizational, plannery type synapsis’ in my right brain went off in the Hallelujah chorus! Have you ever heard of the Bullet Journal? Pinterest is full of fascinating options. Basically you’re using a […]