Every year my extended family has a party where our cousins gather for a little post-holiday cheer. Part of the festivities include a White Elephant gift exchange for the adults. Most of us bring great gifts but inevitably someone brings the gift-to-be-avoided and most of the exchange efforts involve ditching that gift. Last year we […]
Holy Hannah!
Holy Hannah this has been a roller coaster of a week. We sold our minivan. Saying good bye is hard. That minivan hosted A LOT of our collective history as a family. I’m not one to get sentimental about objects but this van is woven into the fiber of my strongest memories over the last […]
You deserve this too…
For most of my entrepreneurial career, this time of year would send me into a panic. I would think about all the goals I had set for the year that I had yet to achieve. I’d be scrambling trying to think of ways to make money during the holidays (which is pure lunacy IMHO.). And […]
Daisy Chronicles: My Mom’s One Dying Regret
In May 2017 I began finding daisies sprinkled throughout our property, daisies we did not plant. They were my mom’s favorite flower. I think she left them for me to remind me of the journey we took together, especially the lessons learned through her cancer and death. I’m sharing them now in the posts labeled […]
You Get What You Get And You Don’t Get Upset?
“You get what you get and you don’t get upset.” When I first heard my daughter repeat these words to her brother when he fussed over the popsicle color he was handed I thought it was pure genius. Who taught her to say and think this?!! What kind of Mary Poppins teaches children to accept […]
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