In my "Motherhood Day" post, I promised you the rest of this story (to be read in your best Paul Harvey voice), so here goes.
As I wrote before, Mother's Day morning started with our 6-year old bursting into our room and announcing urgently:
"You GUYS. Something happened. You GOTTA come see this."
I ...
I was out walking this morning, when a huge collection of beautiful blooms stopped me in my tracks. They looked like pom poms! These softball-sized puffs of tiny white flowers looked almost like hydrangea, but the petals were a little bit different. They made me instantly smile when I saw them, so I...
"Can't" is a no-no word at our house. Not at the soap-in-your-mouth level, but it definitely gets called out. Why? Because I want our kids to grow up telling the truth.
Can't is--in most cases--simply not accurate on its own, and can really keep us stuck.
It might feel like you can't in this moment, ...
I had a funny moment last Sunday that our teen girls are having a FANTASTIC time teasing me about.
Normally, I wouldn't voluntarily broadcast an embarrassing story for public enjoyment, but I actually took a couple of powerful lessons from it later on. So here we go.
Our daughters and I were on our wa...
Momentum is one of the very best friends you can ever have. She'll take you to higher heights than you could ever dream of reaching on your own, and show you what you're really capable of -- over and over again.
But this friendship must be intentionally nurtured and maintained; otherwise she can tur...
You can decide whether or not you'll exercise when you wake up in the morning, or you can set out your clothes + shoes before you go to bed, making the commitment before you need to. Chances of success go up significantly when the choice is made before the brain has something more compelling (like s...
When something comes to an end, especially when it's special to you, it feels like a massive loss. You feel a gaping hole in your life where it was, and life as you knew it is gone. In that moment, all you can see is that loss. It's one of the hardest parts of being human. We'll often go to great le...
I have mixed feelings about the saying, "It is what it is." I like it because there's power in acceptance. But it can also be used as a cop-out from confrontation or change, which isn't helpful and can keep us stuck.
To make the phrase work for our growth, we can simply add a comma and continue the s...
I just had the funnest time with some girlfriends here in our community tonight. We went to JC Penney and had our portraits done, just like we had decades ago with our families when we were kids. We each picked a childhood photo and put together an outfit inspired by the photo, then came together fo...
It would be really convenient if people could just read our minds so we'd never have to explain our thoughts (...but I guess it's probably a good thing if your thoughts are like mine -- not always kind or accurate ). I'm pretty good at articulating my thoughts in writing, but when it comes to lettin...
My client and now dear friend, Gail, has a fantastic new blog called "Real Talk." I'm thinking of adding a category with that name in her honor, and this will be its inaugural post.
For this post, I want you to imagine we're sitting down on the couch, face-to-face, and I'm speaking to you with all t...
Once in a while, we need to just sit by ourselves and take some good deep breaths. It doesn't mean we're broken, or that life is hopeless (beyond the present moment, anyway) -- it just means we're human. And being human is hard sometimes, no matter if we're 3, 45, or 62. So here's your permission sl...
