If you have ever tried to change a habit or accomplish a task, you probably know that having a plan for how to do it yields better results that just winging it. Even if that plan is generally in your head, you have a better chance of making the progress that you want by thinking through how you are going…
For many of us, we have seven weeks until school starts again. Some of you may be thinking, “Only seven weeks?! Summer is almost over! There’s so much I want to do!” Others may be thinking, “Seven weeks?! These kids are already bored and making me crazy!” Either way, the school year is coming and with it will come packing…
As many of you know, I am a runner. I don’t run every day, but I try to get out as much as I can. I don’t always go far, but I try to make every run count in some way. I didn’t always run, not in high school or college, but I can’t imagine not doing it now. It…
Join me on Sundays at 7pm to learn new recipes for dinners and snacks, prep our own meals for the week, and learn more about meal planning. Cost is $40 for 5 weeks and you will walk away with 5 dinner recipes and 5 snack recipes and hopefully a habit of meal prep to lessen the stress during your week.…
I know all you parents out there are looking at the schedule for all of the camps and trying to decide what to do. What is the perfect mix of day camp, regular summer activities, and downtime at home. There are so many choices—art camp, science/STEM camp, horse camp, robotics camp, volleyball/dance/etc. camp. Almost everyone I talk to suddenly says,…
Last week was a pretty emotionally heavy week for my posts. This week let’s make things a little lighter and more hopeful! I started out the year posting about my theme for the year and my subtheme for the month of January. I would like to continue that by talking about my subthemes for February and March. I chose to…
Earlier this week I wrote about the grief I have experienced with the loss of four young people in my and my family’s lives. As you move through something like this, and more importantly, as you support your children through something like this, you have to find something to hang onto. For many people that is creating something in memory…
October 29, 2013 was the first day that I remember really crying at work. Like…couldn’t stop, heaving, sobbing, ugly crying. I had to leave and go home and sometimes I couldn’t even see through my tears to drive. I sat at my neighbor, Julie’s, house sobbing until school pickup. I couldn’t even answer my phone. She had to do it.…
Remember how I put out there a couple months ago that I had this Big Idea and I was SO excited but couldn’t tell anyone about it yet? Here it is, kids! After 19 years, I am leaving Blank Children’s Hospital on a full-time basis. I am going to be running summer camps for kids and doing wellness coaching, leading…
I missed my blog post last week. Why? Dance Mom Hangover. It’s a thing. In the summer it’s known as County Fair Mom Hangover. I’m sure that this applies to any activity that your kid is in that takes up a lot of time on the weekend and results in late nights, poor food choices, and general exhaustion. Cheer, baseball,…
