The degree of grief that accompanies divorce caught me off guard. Of the things I mourned most, our intact family topped the list. It shouldn’t have surprised me. Keeping our family together was the reason I’d delayed this inevitable step…
Dreaming Again, Pivoting, and Shots
Podcasts “Is It Time To Dream Again?” on The Next Right Thing with Emily P. Freeman – Talk about timely. This one released a couple weeks ago, but I listened to it on March 4. In my world here in…
The Mirage of Perfection
The sigh coming from the kitchen table was laced with tears, frustration, and the exasperation that usually accompanies a complete lack of understanding between two people. My sweet girl was spread out over a math assignment. She’d spent more than…
New Lauren Daigle, The Things You’d Never Say in Your Small Group, and a Mop (yes…a mop)
Song Hold On To Me by Lauren Daigle – This may just be my mantra to push through the rest of this pandemic season. Finally new music from Lauren Daigle and it is just what my “tired of all this…
The Ultimate Tether
She’s been our family’s chief of staff since she could make sounds on purpose. In the know on who needed to be where when, she was always ready to help remind her mother of what needed to happen next –…
Co-Parenting Ground Rule #1 – Cast a Vision
Very early on in my divorce process, my attorney reminded me of something so obvious I was missing it at the moment. She reminded me that my children would not always be the ages they were right then. Duh. Obvious….
A Cleaning System, a One-Stop-Shopping Spot, and Kayla Stoecklein
To Follow on Instagram Clean Mama – This is my latest fav to follow on Instagram. Her approach to cleaning is different than what I’ve done my entire life. Instead of saving all cleaning for one day in a large…
Wisdom From Above
“I don’t know what I’m supposed to do next.” I sat with my sister at lunch the day I realized there was no option but to end my marriage. And over a salad I didn’t really eat, I shared all that…
Lazy and Working Geniuses
Books The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi – A while back I recommended the Lazy Genius podcast and that led me to read the book. It is fantastic. This…
Silence Does Not Equal Absence
“If you love marriage so much, why aren’t you fixing this?” If I prayed this once, I prayed it a million times in the final years of my marriage. With this a constant bookend most days, for the first time…
Challenger: Final Flight, A Simple Choice, and How To Be a Better Human
Shows Challenger: Final Flight – Like most people my age, I remember precisely where I was the day of the Challenger disaster, and every January 28 I think back to that morning. In recent years, I had the privilege of…
Bob Goff Finally Took My Advice
Friends, I am over the absolute moon that this book has been written. And I am over -what is bigger than being over the moon?!? – to be part of the Everybody Always For Kids Launch Team. I kid you…
