Ways to simplify momlife is part two of the wrap up for the You Can Simplify Your Life series. Did you miss part one? Listen to 5 things that make my life simpler. Simple Life There are so many demands on our resources (time, space, energy, money)—this makes it feel like our life is not … Read more
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I’ll get right to it. One of the quickest ways you can simplify ANY AREA of your life is to give yourself fewer choices. There are many studies that tell us that having too many choices is a problem. When we have to choose from 100 menu items or 17 career options, or 200 books … 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
Now that I am just past my mid-30s, I feel like I can say with certainty that I didn’t know a thing in my 20s (other than how to wear socks and sandals and identify the native plants of Southern BC. What a catch!). The 30s have given me a crash course in life, most … Read more
For years I have done this little thing called ‘perfect moments’. As a mom it became and even bigger part of my every day life. A while ago I had told my bestie about it and she recently told me that she had started it too and that it has changed her whole outlook. Don’t be thrown … Read more
If you’ve read my Style for the Reluctant Mom series you know that style is something I am new to. It was never something I was good at, but as I’ve been trying to step out of my comfort zone, it is something I am enjoying. When I merged my new interest in fashion … Read more
My bestie and I are both stay at home moms. We joke about the fact that ‘we have it good’. We know this isn’t how it feels all the time, we know it hasn’t always been this way, but at the end of the day, we feel grateful for being able to be stay … Read more
A couple years back we did our first A Day in the Life Round up. I and fourteen other West Coast parent bloggers shared what a day in our life was like. We are bringing the series back for another round! I love a day in the life posts. Maybe because I really genuinely wonder … Read more
We have all settled. For a relationship not leading anywhere, a job we hated, a botched dye job, overpriced quinoa flour, a wardrobe of clothes we kinda like but not really. On one hand, settling can be a good thing, it rustles up those parts of us that we let solidify into entitlement. When it becomes … Read more
1. cartoon animal ability-bias There are shows centered around the fact that ponies can speak…and live in houses…and sew dresses. But they have pets! Who are mute wild animals without any of these humanized abilities. I call this ‘cartoon animal ability-biased’. Perhaps it is best represented by the band of civil servant cartoon dogs that … Read more