Musings From My Minivan
Earlier this week I wrote about my experience with the 2011 Dodge Caravan. It felt like home because I have been driving a minivan for the last 8 years. It was a fabulous vehicle, though it would be so much better if it was a hybrid! (Just sayin’!) But even with all of that I don’t know if at heart I am a Minivan Mom or…an SUV Mama! So I got behind the wheel of the 2011 Dodge Durango to discover my true nature. [Read more...]
It seriously makes a difference in my day. What, you ask? Getting on my little stepper for at least 10 minutes, sometime in the 6 o’clock hour, right away in the morning, before I start my day. Pretty specific stuff huh? Well, it is actually. It wasn’t always though. [Read more...]
For the two weeks before my 41st birthday I am counting down my blessings of age 40 and counting up my wishes for my year of 41. I have ten more days to go. It’s going so fast. [Read more...]
My daughter was really excited to goto school today. Why? Because she got to wear her pajama pants. No this isn’t about some 2nd grade fashion statement, it’s a school fundraising effort. Her schools’ student council decided to raise some money for Japan relief by charging students 50 cents to wear their pajama pants to school today. Pretty ingenious huh? They have a few more initiatives this week as well, but this is the one that got my youngest the most excited. Why, again? Because it broke up the monotony of her school life. My child who absolutely loves to learn and explore, despises going to school. Why for the third time? (You sound like my kids!) Because she doesn’t feel like she gets to go deep with her learning. She would rather spend every day at a museum or zoo. That’s the kind of student I was. Hungry with curiosity. I loved digging into a subject at school; learning something new in the morning, and coming back in the afternoon to go deeper. But that is not the experience children are having this generation. [Read more...]
I am counting down my blessings for the last fourteen days of being 40 and counting up my wishes for my year as 41. This coupling is about being true to who you are as a professional, not standing in the way of your own creativity, and being very clear about not just what you want in life, but what you need. [Read more...]
I had the pleasure of driving the massive Cadillac Escalade for a week courtesy of my good friend @connieburke and the AWESOME folks at GM. It was a fabulous treat for my children in particular. Movie screens everywhere you look. That meant my kids didn’t have to agree on anything. WORLD PEACE! [Read more...]
My 41st birthday is just 13 days away. As I wrote in yesterday’s post, I am taking these final 14 days of being 40 to reflect upon what I am thankful for in particular from this last year and what I wish for in the coming year. A simultaneous countdown and count up if you will. Here is number thirteen on my list: [Read more...]
For the year leading up to my 40th birthday I did a count down. Well, not actually a countdown more of a count up. I wasn’t intending to do anything big. And I wasn’t really doing it for anyone but myself. I was doing it because shortly after my 39th birthday I felt as though my life was blurring, or more specifically my days were blurring, blurring together. A run on sentence of days minutes and hours. So to combat that I started acknowledging each day on my facebook page. Day 1 of the year of 39. Day 12 of the year of 39. Day 145 of the year of 39. That’s all, nothing extravagant. Just a few words and number to separate each day from another. It didn’t stop all of my weeks from bleeding into the other, but it did help to change the way I looked at my life…at least I would like to think that it did. [Read more...]
Do you ever get mad, mad that you can’t eat what you want to? I get so pissed off sometimes because I can’t just be free to pick my food without having to silently calculate the calories in my head. That I can’t simply choose a meal based on what I have a taste for, but instead I have to choose a meal based on what my thighs can handle. [Read more...]
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