This week we got snow. Just when I had the hope it was all going to be over. This week I learned first aid (again) and CPR for the first time. This week I wondered, what have I actually learned? During First Aid training I remembered some things from Wilderness First Aid. Does that mean […]
What do you say when you are self-destructing on the inside? For me, I say nothing, which makes writing a blog post hard. I think the actual advice is to try speaking to yourself the way you would speak to a friend who was feeling the same way. So to my friend, I say; it’s […]
Without a plan I am lost. Like really lost. I wander aimlessly, I pick stuff up and put it down. I look into the refrigerator, searching for answers I know aren’t there. I am paralyzed by too many choices for what to do that I most often do nothing. Don’t worry, I know there is […]
I feel like the days have been filled with lifetimes. It’s like the days are buzzing. I feel like it’s summer, only it’s 15 degrees as I write this. And sometimes I feel like I get away from myself. Like one minute I have a few plans, and the next minute I have 11,000 plans and am […]
Yesterday I spent my 12,045th day breathing on this earth and I know well enough by now that there will never be enough days for all the things I love. There will never be enough days spent with my nieces, swimming in hotel swimming pools and having slumber parties for their birthdays. There will never […]
There are so many different kinds of tired. There’s the semi-delusional I Haven’t Slept in Days kind. There’s the kind where everything is funny even though it’s really not. There’s the kind of tired you feel at work, you know, when you’re inexplicably tired all day until the clock strikes 4 and you’re suddenly not […]
My youngest niece turned 1 in December and it got me thinking about how much we change in a year. It’s so easy to see it in her. A year ago she was a squashy, helpless bundle that I could hold with one hand. Now she’s walking, chasing balloons, eating cupcakes and doing things. With […]
So I don’t know who Brooke Hampton is but I read this quote by her that goes “Your purpose is not to spend your entire life wandering around looking for your purpose. Your purpose is to walk in your magic and move in your power. Your purpose is to be fully alive. That’s it. The […]
Time goes faster every year and Christmas is always over too soon. It’s funny how something can be sad and happy at the same time. Like nostalgia. Like Christmas morning when all the Christmas mornings of your life come back to you and you remember all the joy and all the years you’ve left behind. […]
As a family we went to Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos of Pennsylvania as an early Christmas gift for my nieces. After totally wiping out after going down a water slide with my sister she said “didn’t you not used to like this kind of thing?” I answered that “I got weird.” This is […]
