Today everything is wrong

How quickly my headspace has changed.  Today everything is wrong.  The kids are really bugging me. My 2-year-old son is on a whining and complaining bender.  My 6-year old needs my attention too, but I need some time today...

A Beautiful Mess

This is my beautiful mess.  No matter how hard I try to keep my vanity neat and tidy, it always ends up looking like a disaster.  It was clean yesterday and this is what it looks like today.  It can actually get a lot worse than this.

"A Beautiful Mess, Embrace your Story" is next year's theme for my MOPS (Mother's of Preschoolers) group, which is "the bomb" by the way-- but more on that later.  I love, love this phrase because it tells me...

Bloom where you are planted.

I spent my Mother's Day in urgent care, making sure my persistent cough hadn't progressed into pneumonia-- which it hadn't, thank God!  Not the most enjoyable way to spend the day, but despite the chest x-ray and nebulizer treatments, this may be my favorite Mother's Day yet...

Binge Stuff or Mom Stuff?

This whole blog thing is a tricky business.  I've never done it before, but somehow I feel like I have to be awesome and perfect at it right away.  One of the hardest parts for me...

Cake is a "hard limit" for me

I say that because it seems to be the one sugary delight that just sends me over the edge.  I have an unnatural love of it.  I love it so much, when I start eating...