Welcome to another holiday season. The Christmas trees are up at the mall. Beautifully tacky lights are up everywhere. We’re all spending too much money and stressed out. It’s my absolute favorite time of the year! But this time there’s something a bit troubling lurking beneath my festive mirth. Is this the year Santa Claus…
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This year was my worst Mother’s Day yet. While many people were getting breakfast in bed or snuggling up to their children or, my personal favorite, taking the day off from the business of motherhood and the kids, my day was significantly different. First, I made the mistake of not realizing that I had booked…
Read MoreLife can sometimes eat up every ounce of energy and motivation you have and leave you only able to focus on the few things that absolutely cannot be neglected. I’ve been in that space for the past 7 months. Between a major project at work, parenting, pregnancy and sometimes managing to make my bed here…
Read MoreOne peaceful night in bed with my husband, while discussing the aggravations of work, kids’ schedules, doctor’s appointments, and all of the other things of mundane adult life, I noticed an interesting pattern on my comforter that I had never noticed before. In the middle of my sentence about something drab, I stopped… ” Is…
Read More“Relax… That is the number one most unhelpful thing that anyone can say.”
Read More“A much as I think I would like to be, I will never be a fancy girl.”
Read MoreI oftentimes find myself comparing my parenting to that of the generations before me. I tend to assume they got it right and that my generation is the one struggling with this whole raising-a-person thing. I assume because my peers and I are alive and pretty much thriving that our parents did a good job. …
Read MoreOn my day off, I decided to get a massage. This turned out to be one of the least relaxing massages I have ever had. I couldn’t get out of my own head and just enjoy the moment because I was far too busy worrying that I might’ve inadvertently welcomed a “happy ending”.
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I am an anxious person. I get worked up easily and think the worst of anything that is out of the norm. If I am on my way to visit my friend in Chicago who I usually talk to via text all day every day and today she isn’t answering, my thoughts range from “She…
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Have you ever had one of those days where your brain is like, “Let’s do ANYTHING other than what we are supposed to be doing,” and no matter your efforts to focus your brain just won’t cooperate? You try reading a long work email and your brain is like, “NOPE!”
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The Well-Adjusted Adult 