Making New Year's resolutions has become a running joke, a cliche. When you google "New Years Resolutions" one of the first results is "resolutions are meant to be broken". The word "resolutions" has a stigma attached to it. Not to be hung up on the choice of a better word … [Read more...]
Keeping focus on the priorities: holidays wrap up.
Happy New Year everyone! Our Christmas decorations are packed up and put away till the next year, and we are shifting gears to our normal routine. It always takes a few days of mental refocusing and readjusting the schedule until things get back on track. This year the … [Read more...]
Adjusting the focus: living in the moment
via The last couple of weeks have been exceptionally enduring and demanding around here. We have had physical injuries (my son broke his ankle...again), behavior issues coming from my 7 year old, and loads of negativity coming from external sources-- people that we wish we didn't … [Read more...]
Sochi Olympics
Have you been following the Sochi Olympics this year? We have been watching whenever we can, as well as reading the coverage in the newspaper and watching TV news. It definitely is very political and full of issues and controversies. But that is not why I am writing this … [Read more...]
Goals and resolutions
To say 2013 was busy is an understatement: between four kids including a baby, a new house that required a lot of work, and general every day stuff, there weren't enough hours in a day to keep up with all the things that had to be done. Things had to be prioritized. Something had … [Read more...]