As a mom, it can be hard to make time for yourself. Between getting the kids ready for school, making dinner, and doing laundry, there often isn't much time left over. However, it is important to make self care a priority if you want to maintain good mental health.
Please don’t wait until I can’t do it anymore
Stress is a natural part of life. I get that. When you have anxiety, your stress is multiplied. You stress about things before you know why you’re stressing out.
We don’t talk about Jada
That's cool. I get it. But let's talk about what happened. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, let's recap. The Oscars were last night. Chris Roxk hosted. At one point, he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. I personally love that headpiece. Beautiful. Simple. Elegant. And that's where the problem... Continue Reading →
Roadblocks: Overcoming Obstacles
What is standing in your way right now? I talked about goals and resolutions yesterday. And a lot of people, me included, won't make those goals. Why? What's in the way? And how can I get around it?
Scattered
Listen. Here's the thing. I know I'm supposed to be writing something super poignant. A retrospect of 2021. All the books I read. The struggles and challenges and victories I've had. But I can't get my brain to focus. I have started, stopped, erased, amd started this blog four times now. All because I couldn't... Continue Reading →
52 Weekly Challenges to Embrace Your Inner Bookworm
Resolutions and objectives for accomplishing, performing better, and changing the elements of one’s life that aren’t functioning or might work better come with the new year. Of course, for readers, this means establishing a lot of objectives for what they want to read or how much time they want to devote to their reading with a new calendar in front of them. But maybe, instead of establishing some lofty objectives — or perhaps besides those lofty goals — you’re seeking for something more manageable. Consider this collection of weekly reading challenges a chance to broaden your reading horizons and cross off a variety of fresh, imaginative, and witty literary bucket list items over the following 52 weeks.
Christmas Haul
The big day has come and gone. My living room looks like a Toys R Us crack den. My kitchen could star on an episode of Hoarders. But my bookshelf is going to be legendary.
Book Stack Saturday: Merry Christmas
Welcome aboard, train wreck. No big post today. Just wishing you a Happy Yulemas and Seasons Seasonings. I hope you get everything on your wishlist and someone else does the cleaning.