“I just need a break,” I think to myself. The holidays have already worn me out and Thanksgiving was an overlooked afterthought. The world is picking up speed in loud anticipation of December, spinning faster and faster, screaming at me like white noise, “Christmas is coming!! Have you bought your gifts? Decorated your house?? Watched …
It was a beautiful November day, full of blue skies, laughter, and the normal drama that comes with any wedding. On this day (11/22) five years ago, I said “I do” to my best friend, my confidante and secret-keeper, and finally my husband. The man who captures my heart and holds it gently in his …
Do you ever feel like you work and work and work only to feel like you’re a rat on a spinning wheel and the joke is on you–heads up, you’re not going anywhere? Like, you haven’t sat down or really taken a break in….hold on, days?! That even when the naps happen (do they really …
Do you ever try to hold on to time? Do you ever bottle it up and try to save it? Or do you squeeze it so tightly yet still feel it stealthily slipping through your locked-shut fingers like sand through an hourglass? No matter how you try to hold on, time always finds a way …
1. You can do anything for {insert amount of time}. 1 minute. 2 hours. 1 week. 6 months. I always think about exclusively breastfeeding in terms of working out, when the instructor screams at you during a plank, saying you have only 30 seconds left. And you think, “Sure! I’ve got this!” Only to realize …
