Friday Faves. Edition 47. Another Friday and the first one of the new year! On Wednesday, I shared some of the lessons that I learned during the Gratitude Challenge. I found it so helpful to take the time to focus each day on what I was grateful for. I am reminded of how grateful I [...]
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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 [...]
Friday Faves – Edition 46
Friday Faves. It's already Friday. I hope that if you celebrated Christmas that it was a lovely day. We went to a Candlelight Christmas Eve Service and had our traditional Christmas Eve feast. The number of teens who stayed home to watch The Polar Express has steadily dwindled. Only one this year. We got to [...]
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 [...]
Friday Faves – Edition 45
It's Friday! The Friday before Christmas! How did that happen?! I can't believe that in a little over a week we will enter 2018! Are you all ready? I think that I have participated in the weekly photo challenge every week this year. This week asked us to share one of our favorite photos [...]
Christmas Trees and Traditions
Christmas Trees and Traditions. I shared with you in this post that this was our first year traveling to a Christmas Tree Farm to choose our tree. Our family tradition has always been to pick out a tree together as a family. Big Mr. heads off to college next year and the other two teens [...]
Friday Faves – Edition 44
It's Friday. I can't begin to tell you how relieved that I am that it is Friday. This has been an exhausting week. Mostly because I've spent most of it in that "bordering on sick" phase. You know, the phase where you're coughing, congested, and have general feelings of malaise, but since you aren't [...]
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 [...]