IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE, YOU NEED TO CHANGE
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett –
I was running. The day glorious. The spring air was clean and fresh, new signs of life popped up in the neighborhood all around me, green...
CHOSE HAPPINESS, RELEASE FEAR, AND KICK ASS
“Whatever you believe to be true, whether it is true or not; if you believe it, then to you it becomes the truth.” ― Stella Payton
It seems there is always something we long to change in our life. We want more money, more love, less...
LETTING GO OF THE AFTER AND FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE PROCESS
“All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives” Steven Spielberg
It’s a new day, a new year. The promise of fresh starts and clean...
START ACCEPTING GRACIOUSLY AND STOP REFUSING HELP
Until we can receive with an open heart, we’re never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.” ~ Brene Brown ~
I don’t ask...
#WCW MARY BETH'S STORY
What do you call a mom and a successful Physician’s Assistant who leaves her career and moves her family literally around the globe to Ghana, Africa? Mary Beth. You call her Mary Beth, because she is an everyday wife and mother just like you and I who had...
BUY LESS STUFF TO MAKE MORE MEMORIES
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~
Ah, the holidays, a time for giving, receiving, and most likely overspending....
THE POWER OF TRADITIONS
“Now I have a machine gun. Ho-ho-ho.” ~ John McClane ~
In our house, it is not Christmas until Hans Gruber gets thrown off Nakotomi Towers. Santa, Christmas carols, and twinkly lights ain’t got nothing on John McClane. Every year we watch this movie...
ALONG WITH GUILT, COMPARISON, AND EXPECTATIONS
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” ~ Erma Bombeck ~
In my house, about 99.9% of Christmas magic making falls to me. I’ve always taken this job seriously since there are few...
AND DONE WORRYING ABOUT HOW TO BE A GOOD MOM
“The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means you already are one.” ~ Jodi Picoult ~
I’ve wanted to be a good mother since I was a little girl. I imagined a big happy family, chicken roasting in the oven on Sundays,...
