I’ve been thinking a lot about the time in my life where everything seemed to suck. Parenting was depleting all my resources, I felt in over my head on a daily basis. My marriage was bookended with resentment on both sides, I knew we were both so lost and angry. I felt restless and unproductive … Read more
There is a cliche saying ‘get comfortable with discomfort’ A few years ago I would roll my eyes at this saying that OBVIOUSLY does not apply to me. Now, this saying is like a daily reminder about how I want to LIVE life. About six years ago it hit me that I was living my … Read more
(this is Step three of Showing Up For Your Life, see the whole series here) When you realize your life isn’t what you want it to be you find yourself in a place where you are ready to take responsibility for it, or you will keep looking for ways to avoid the responsibility. After feeling … Read more
Anxiety in motherhood took over my parenting, my marriage and my happiness I came across this really interesting article. It lists five types of mothering styles: perfectionist(she is hypercritical and controlling), unpredictable (she parents based on the mood she’s in), best friend (she avoids taking on the ‘parent’ role), me-first (her kid’s job is to make her ‘shine’) and … Read more
We all have a vision of the mother we will be. Then we have kids. No matter how many kids we have or how close together, I think we all experience this deviation from what we hoped for as mothers and what we become. WHEN DID I STOP ENJOYING MY KIDS? In my case, I … Read more
Today I had to tap into what I’ve been learning about coaching and talk myself through a badittude. Here is how it went down: I had a three-year-old who was a threenager today. I stress-ate taquitos for lunch. I made a plan with my husband that I would go to the gym right after dinner. … Read more
Yay! It’s #fiveonfriday. A free for all to share a list of “five things” with you. I love it because I can write about anything and everything. Like “Five Reasons You MUST Read or Watch the Outlander” (which would pretty much look like this. . . Reasons 1-4: Jamie and Claire, Reason 5: Scotland. And by … Read more
The first time I took away half of my kids’ toys it involved an “incident” that happened while I was nursing the baby. (Maybe you remember this one….) The type of incident which included three jars of baby powder; me having an out-of-body experience of unreasonable calmness; a tearful vacuuming session (my tears mostly); and … Read more
I initially wrote this big, long post on a six month update of how our living space looks since we started to ‘simplify’. Then I put together some before and after pics from January, when we started, to now and showed them to Conor. It sucked. He just said ‘it’s not that good’. I needed … Read more