Thank You for the Perspective
Let's just admit it right up front, my 2016 has continued to be closer to chaos than perfection. I feel we do too much. Does anyone else feel like this? Actually, the feeling I get from my immediate universe is that pretty much all of us feel we do this.
2016 Insights Into My Soul - Thus Far
One of my random New Year suggestions for myself is to apply these words from Tom Clancy, "The only way to do everything you'd like to do is to read." Tidying, the portfolio life, and pretending I'm in movies? It's been an awesome reading year so far.
Happy New Year - Happy Golden Globes
Happy New Year!I know. We are almost halfway through month one, and I am only just now wishing you a happy year.I love a new year. You know this, if you’ve ever read a Serenity Now December/January blog post. I jump all in with the whole new year vibe.
The Totally Free Gift to Give
Being human is a ridiculous adventure.I recently finished reading The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard, which emphatically states the driving force within all of us is freedom. We want to be the boss of all the things - our work, our play, our money, our social calendar. Being free is the ultimate internal goal.
The Sunday Life
If you struggle with Mondays as much as I do, you are probably familiar with their evil predecessor, the dreaded Sunday night blues. It's hard to let go of Sunday, I wrote on Instagram once with a picture of the Anne book I was reading alongside no fewer than four notebooks and journals in which I had been writing.
Making Christmas Simple
Every year, I think "if only we could just focus on being together." I love how much room there is to simply enjoy the good parts of the season when you don't cram it too full with things you need to buy and do and decorate.
I'd like to take the world to Hello Dolly
Every Tuesday night, after I have faced an entire Monday and the First Day That is Not Monday and therefore basically a holiday, I collapse exhausted in front of our television for the one and only night each week that I get control of the remote. I go to my DVR list and push play on the previous night's episode of Dancing With the Stars. And I am surprised and delighted and deeply moved every single time.
The Simple Always
I love this picture.Poor Jake is tackling homework he was assigned, but not I. The lucky grownup in this picture is learning for the sheer, intentional joy of it.It was a free webinar. I have some warring principles at play in my little, dreaming heart.
How to Measure Enough
Let's get right to the switch for this bait: I have no idea how to measure enough.I have a picture in my head of what enough looks like for me. It is very pretty. It has to do with totally liking my day - that's pretty much it.
Big Magic Everywhere
There are some seasons in this beautiful life when I sail smoothly. My mind is quiet, my heart basically happy, the days busy as ever but manageable. These seasons are nestled between a very specific pattern in which I begin to question. And then doubt. And then crash
16 Things I Hate About Parenting
In honor of the sixteenth Anniversary of my Motherhood, I present to you a somewhat surprising list from me: 16 things I Hate About Parenting: 1. The astonishing reality that I have been put in charge of young humans when I'm not actually done yet. At all.
It's Really Not So Regular
Here's how I know someday I am going to succeed at this writing thing I currently do on the side: Today I got a notice of spectacular failure and still felt excited to get home and start writing again.
When I Grow Up I Want to be an Architect
More than once in my life, I have been known to say (or, more likely, to write in my journal), "I love my life, but I do not like my days." I'm going to shuffle out on one very large limb here and assume that perhaps someone else can relate.
I love you, single task
I recently read the wonderful book on simplicity called Notes from a Blue Bike by Tsh Oxenreider . It's a memoir of sorts with this subtitle: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World.
Most Likely to Raise the Average - (now that's a yearbook win)
It's been a week of great losses and small wins in my world, and it makes me feel all out of balance. We've lost football games, music auditions, and money (ER visits and college credit courses are expensive!).
What Do You Really Want?
Do we really want money - just piles of dollars and cents? Or do we want the money for something we can get another way?
Confessions of an Occasional Introvert
I used to be an extrovert. Audacious, someone told me once. And they said it like this, "You used to be."
How to Not Completely Lose It When Someone Else So Did
Darlings, evil has happened again. AGAIN. And, as usual, it's the same, same, same except with some added level of what to fear from now on.