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getting ready for school to start— there are still five weeks, but seriously? I feel like summer just started! excited for another date night tonight thanks to VBS listening to laid back brunch radio on pandora looking forward to swimming later this week addicted to en-r-gee oil from Young Living reading so much! A had to work third shift this weekend and that meant that I didn’t get… Read More
There comes a point while you’re browsing your favorite blog way too late on a Sunday night that you realize that summer is half over and you haven’t done nearly as many things as you’ve wanted to do that summer. So I’m taking a page from Elise Blaha-Cripes’ book and I’m making a manifesto for the month of July. The… Read More
I hope you and yours have a safe and wonderful 4th of July!
I had two sets of goals this year: personal and writing. Here is a mid-year check in on the goals — what is working, what isn’t working, what I’ve already accomplished, and what it getting abandoned. Finish house projects: kitchen, living room, office/cubbie, master bath: phase 1 Two rounds of whole 30: January, October Get piano Buy more plants 12 Family Selfies… Read More
Around here, I think we’re finally settling into summer. The kids are finally not waking up before 8 AM, and I’m getting a couple hours of work done before they get up. I’m getting into a groove of working/not working — and I’m not going lie. Not working every day is a little weird (and I’ll probably get used to… Read More
Note: This post contains affiliate links. Meaning if you click and purchase, I’ll receive a small commission and you’ll be helping support my book habit. Up until college, I was only able to read one book at a time. But then multiple literature classes all in the same semester forced me out of my comfortable one-book-at-a-time bubble, and now I’ll rarely… Read More
I don’t know that I have a “typical” writing day yet. Right now, every day is different, and I never really know what the next will hold. So, here’s a glimpse at a day last week when I was in the midst of a KILLER scene that did NOT want to be written while on a writing retreat (aka taking… Read More