As busy moms, we often reflect on how grateful we are to have grown up in simpler times. We could be kids. We could be present and in the moment. Most days, summers were spent outdoors rollerblading, biking, playing tag, and just enjoying the here and now…remember that? Now, it isn’t just our children who spend most of their days… Read More
We live in a rapidly moving world where everyone seems to be starting a family, running a home business, and somehow they still manage to hit the gym 6 days a week. So why is it that we start off with this great sense of power and motivation, but somewhere along the way you begin to feel both physically, and… Read More
There is a little saying that goes “when mom is unhappy, everyone is unhappy.” While dads most definitely do their part too, moms are generally the ones who are there to pick up the pieces when laundry needs to be done quickly, and meals need to be cooked. Even then, when mom is sick, injured, or otherwise has her day… Read More
I woke up this morning to the boys and their friends yelling at each other. All over an X-Box game. Asking them (I might have raised my voice a bit) to bring down the controllers and their phones, one can imagine the disrespect that followed. The shortness, the impatience, the crankiness, the irritability in their tone of voice sent me… Read More
Do you ever just feel like you’ve got too much on your plate…you’re stuck working on a never-ending to-do list…and you’re being pulled in a million directions…without having a single ounce of sanity? Oh, how I get it, and I am here to tell you…Stop trying to do it all! There were days when I could not even count how… Read More
Goals are a challenge, especially when everybody else’s lives get in the way of yours. You have these hopes to get fit or to eat healthily or to try something new. Then those goals get knocked down by everything else. Work, kids, family, and other life stuff can take over–realizing that you’re not even on your own priority list! Now,… Read More