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I have been finding all sorts of activities for my daughters to make sure their homeschooling journey starts with a bang. I have, of course, been teaching them since birth. But now we’re getting into traditional academics and I am finding resources everywhere and I am excited. I bought a couple of workbooks off of Amazon, including Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills and The Essential…

I’ve always wondered why celebrities take negative comments so personally. It comes with the territory. You know what you’re getting into, even if you have never experienced it before. You know to ignore the negative comments and not let it get to you. You know that there are people out there that are downright rude when they don’t have to say anything to your face. There are people that don’t do…

Daily writing promptWhat positive events have taken place in your life over the past year?View all responses This year has been such an awful year that I saw this prompt and decided to run with it to search for the good anywhere in this past year. I was promoted. I found a migraine medicine that actually helps me. I was invited to and joined 2 honor societies. And then of course, my husband…

Daily writing promptDo lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive?View all responses Lazy days definitely make me feel unproductive. I always have too much I need to do and I am very good at procrastinating. When I have a lazy day I feel less rested than if I just tried to get a lot of things done in the morning and was just lazy in the later part of the day. I feel as if I lost a day if I…

Daily writing promptWhen was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?View all responses I feel like this is a hard topic. There is never just one moment where you feel grown up. A lot of the time I still feel like I am 16. But there are several moments that hit me and I realize, wait, I am no longer 16, I am a full-fledged adult. Those moments hit randomly in life. Some really…

Every night at 8pm, I have Google scheduled to turn off the TV and announce that it is time to read a book. My daughters hear that and they run into their playroom and pick out a pile of books and I alternate between their choices and read until bedtime. Last night, Isabella picked one of the learning books from one of my businesses, PaperPie. It is called Finger Match Pre-K Readiness, which you…

Daily writing promptWhat skill would you like to learn?View all responses I would like to learn to speak another language fluently. I took French in high school. I can still read it pretty well. When I went to France in 2016 with my now husband, I could speak better than I thought, but without the practice, I honestly cannot understand when someone speaks it to me. I spent most of my life…

There is a big focus on mental health and attempting to destigmatize it. We’ve come so far, and yet there are still so many stereotypes about people getting therapy in this day and age. I have never understood that. When I was 9, my parents got a divorce, and the first thing my mom did was take me to a child psychologist to make sure I was adjusting ok. I was always taught from a young age that…

My plan was to write every day, but with my busy life my goal was to put a post up at least once a week. With my schedule, that tends to be an ambitious goal. The fates seem to have a target on my back lately. With varying degrees of awfulness, imagine the past month of my life as a roller coaster. There’s that beginning dip, then there’s that huge drop, then even though that huge drop was the…

Daily writing promptWhat change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?View all responses The motivating factor I have for starting my blog is actually the answering to this question. With my girls still so young, it will take a while for the goal of my blog to really take hold, if it ever does, but the goals of my blog, aside from just writing about life in general, are…

Somehow, my 3-year-old daughter tries to be a perfectionist. I don’t know where she got the idea that if something is wrong, she has to redo it, but that trait is in her for some reason. She’s seen the Bluey episode that nothing is perfect, but apparently that didn’t stick. Today I decided to try to start a little structured learning with Isabella. I just wanted to do something constructive that…

Daily writing promptIf you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be?View all responses This is a tough question to answer. Watching and reading Jurassic Park definitely has its influence on my answer. My logic from what happened in those stories and my survival instinct tells me that I do not want to bring back a predator and deal with that. It would also be dangerous to bring back a…

Yesterday, Javier and I celebrated 5 years married and 11 years since our first date. We have been through so much in 11 years. We’ve moved 3 times. We’ve traveled to 4 states, 1 territory, and 5 countries (more if you count layovers). We’ve run too many races for me to count without my records. We’ve helped each other through a combined 6 surgeries (soon to be 7). We’ve birthed 2 beautiful…

Daily writing promptDogs or cats?View all responses I have honestly never liked this question. While some people may have a preference, it may also come down to experiences they have had in their lives or even the place they currently are in their lives as to what they can accommodate fairly. I personally love all animals. In my history, my paternal grandmother always had poodles. My maternal…

I was just invited, and accepted, to join the National Society of Leadership and Success, due to my GPA with Southern New Hampshire University. I am excited to be part of an Honor Society, to feel I deserve it. Part of the induction process involves watching broadcasts from speakers for the society. Currently, there are no live speakers scheduled, so I was able to choose from some prerecorded…

Daily writing promptWhich activities make you lose track of time?View all responses The best way for me to lost track of time is to read. I get lost in books and have no idea that time is passing. I’m part of that group that says one more chapter and 6 chapters later I didn’t even notice the original chapter ended. I also lose track of time if I’m watching a TV show I like, even if, or actually…

Toddler soccer is so hard. There is a local soccer academy called My Soccer Academy, or MSA, that has toddler soccer starting at the age of 2. It is the closest toddler anything to our house. Anything else is at least an hour drive from where we live, which is just too far. I think my daughters are too young for soccer. I really miss when they were going to The Little Gym. They were learning so…