Today I need to love on my littlest son for a minute because he has taught me a big lesson. He is super independent, ridiculously confident, and mad fearless. He can do all the things, knows all the stuff, and tries all the nerves! He is the epitome of who we get to be when… Read More A Big Lesson from a Little Boy
Listen, we all know someone who talks badly about others. We all know that one person who is perpetually negative and seems to always have something unsavory to say about someone else. And if that someone else is someone we care about, we are usually pretty quick to jump into defense mode. Or perhaps you… Read More Don’t You Dare Talk About My Frannnnnd!
About Movement and Momentum The thing about movement is that the momentum it creates grows substantially over time. Take for example a snowball sent down a hill. At first it is as small as the hands that have packed it. Quite quickly however, it picks up more and more snow. Before you know it, you… Read More April Showers Brought May Flowers
Growing Pains Life is full of change. Hopefully always change for the better, but change nonetheless. As I grow as a woman, as a wife, as a parent, I realize that there are many things I may have done in the past that now, in hindsight, I think perhaps I could have done better or… Read More It Can Only Go Up From Here
I have been on the losing side of an epic battle with my right-hand man for better of eight months. He has been on my very last nerve and if I could, I would throw his annoying behind right out of our second story window. He’s there, glaring me down in the morning, distracting me… Read More WE’RE BREAKING UP!
When I held a full-time position as an Assistant Principal at an Elementary school, something I learned from our school’s Principal was the importance of being intentional with your actions. Everything she did was purposeful. While not always clear to me in the moment, inevitably, down the road it was obvious that a well laid… Read More Intentional Living
Today, February 1, 2016 marks the official one-year anniversary of my leap of faith. It was an incredible leap. It was terrifying, gut-wrenchingly sad, apocalyptic and exhilarating all at the same time. After two years in graduate school studying for a M.Ed. in elementary education, four years in the classroom as a lead teacher and… Read More One Year Later