I was recently at the Dentist for my 6 month cleaning (no cavities, yay me!đ). I was chatting with my cute hygienist, (they are always so cute right?) who was telling me about her recent engagement and her up-coming wedding. When the dentist joined us, he said to her, âHey, you know Jane is a …
What do we do when we want different things? I have the best little tool for you today! Does this ever happen with your honey? You really want to go to a wedding, he really wants to go to a game. What do you do? Perhaps you want to volunteer for an event, but your …
Welcome Baby Girl! This past week has been one for the records in our family. We got to enjoy our darling grandsons for a few days, while our daughter and her husband welcomed our precious new grand-daughter into the world. And then, the day after we returned our babies to be with their parents and …
Never before in the history of my lifetime, have I seen so much disagreement. And friends, weâre not good at it! With the pandemic, the BLM movement, riots, protests, the election and political / religious views, there is so much discord it can be absolutely deafening. Wear masks? Start school? Stand for the flag? Vote for____ …
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Listen less and talk more. No really, I know what youâve heard. Youâve been told to talk less and listen more, and this is very good advice when we are communicating with other people. But the conversation I am talking about here is the one you are having with yourself! I know you and I know the …
One of the things I heard a lot as a kid was, “Practice makes perfect.” I think this is an idea that people came up with in order to inspire work ethic, to help us produce something great, perhaps even extraordinary. I remember going to a concert of a local artist as a teenager and …
Whenever I start to feel unsettled, uneasy or stressed out, itâs usually because I have gotten away from my morning practice that includes meditation. Or maybe Iâve been going through the motions, but not really quieting my brain. If you havenât made meditation a part of your daily practice, I HIGHLY recommend you start today! …
My aunt passed away recently and like any other human, she left all of her worldly possessions behind. My mom is a co-executor of her estate and was left with the task of figuring out what to do with it all. Iâve watched my parents over the past several weeks, spending many hours each day, …
“How Much Should I GIve?” I get this question a lot. âIf I just love him even when he doesn’t deserve it, isnât that giving too much? I feel like Iâm excusing his bad behavior and Iâm not okay with that.â âIf I give love and it hasnât been earned, that isnât fair.â I get it. …
When we were newly weds, my husband and I bought a little hibachi grill, -remember those? We thought is was great⊠and it was⊠but over time it stopped being so great, we started noticing the flaws⊠it was too small, didnât have the features we wanted. We realized we wanted something better. So we …
Are you in the middle of a mid-life crisis? midlife crisis: An emotional crisis of identity and self-confidence that can occur in early middle age. A few years back,I remember driving in the car one day with some dear friends as we were heading out to lunch, and suddenly I was talking my head off …
I love being a mom. It has been and always will be my favorite job in the world, but after we had our third baby and I was home all day long with the kids, I found myself in a real funk. We didnât have a lot of money to go do things and where …
