Friday. It's Friday!! Can I get a woohoo?! Friday Faves. I'm just going to jump right in with my Friday Faves. My week has felt somewhat discombobulated because of the weather. Winter said "hey, did you forget about me?" and showed back up. In last week's Friday Faves, I mentioned that the snow was [...]
Tag: 30 day challenge
Lessons Learned During A Reading Challenge
Reading. I have always loved reading. I can't remember a time when my nose wasn't buried in a book. Just as in life, my reading seasons ebb and flow. Sometimes I am voraciously reading book after book and other times I watch the ones that I thought I'd read, sit and gather dust upon the [...]
30 Day Challenge…March
30 Day Challenge. Once again it's time to announce my next thirty-day challenge. If you are new to my blog, every month, since I turned 40 back in September, I set a new thirty-day challenge for myself. The goal is to have my year of being 40, a time to press outside of my comfort [...]
Lessons Learned During My Month of Being a Vegetarian
Vegetarian. I hadn't heard the phrase Veganuary, until well into the month of January. Otherwise, I might have gone Vegan for the month. As it was, my January Challenge was to become a Vegetarian for 30 days. Along the way, I learned a few lessons. Lessons learned. Likely, the biggest lesson that I learned was : [...]
30 Days of…February Challenge
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil - widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower. -Dorothea in Middlemarch by George Eliot Reading. (psst...I am Amazon affiliate, which means [...]
Lessons Learned While Practicing Gratitude
Gratitude. Gratitude is defined as the quality of being thankful. It is a readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. There have been numerous recent (and probably old ones as well) studies that show how practicing gratitude each day is good for our mental health. December tends to be a whirlwind of activity [...]
30 Days Of… January Challenge
Monthly Challenge. 30 Days Of... January Challenge. I hope that all of you are having a lovely holiday season. I didn't think I'd be back with a post until Friday. Then I realized, not only are we rapidly approaching the end of the year...we are rapidly approaching the end of December and I haven't announced [...]
Gratitude + Music
Gratitude for Music. Today is Day 11 of my December challenge. I have pondered each daily prompt of gratitude. And I have taken photos. I have shared little snippets on my Instagram story. And I have journaled. I collected ideas and thoughts and felt grateful for this amazing thing called life. When I came to [...]
Friday Faves – Edition 43
Friday Faves. Edition 43. This week has felt productive. I can't put my finger on the why, but I feel like I am on a path forward... not standing still, or worse, moving backward. Pinterest and Tailwind. As I move toward the end of the year...and closer to the 2-year mark of this blog, [...]
What I Learned From 30 Days Of Preparing A New Recipe Each Day
November Challenge. Phew! I made it through my November Challenge. At the end of 30 days, I prepared a total of 36 "new to me" recipes. I found this challenge to be...well...challenging. I'm busy running a household and raising three teenagers and trying to keep a puppy from demolishing every scrap of paper or [...]