For the Health of It

Today marks the end of the second month in a row where I challenged myself to move a minimum of 100 miles.   Today I logged in miles 114.5 to 119.5.  All of these miles are above and beyond my average daily steps.  These miles were logged by running, walking and biking.  Walking to the

Monday, Monday

i know there are people out there that dread Monday’s.  For that I apologize.  Most of the time I am fortunate enough to look forward to them.  Weekdays have structure, which I crave.  I have a job and coworkers that I enjoy, so going back to the office doesn’t bother me.  Lastly, it’s a do

My Kids Make Me Proud

We had a busy weekend.  Usually when we have all six kids in the house, we are homebodies.  We may go to the park, have friends over, but for the most part we just relax and spend time together.  This weekend, we had two big plans.   Saturday late afternoon, we had an anniversary party

Color Run, Let the Colors Run

This morning I did the Ypsilanti color run for the third year in a row.  Only today it was different somehow, somehow a little more special, a celebration of the amazing turn our country took yesterday.  Now, at no point did the Color Run officials, volunteers or workers say anything of the sort.  They weren’t

For the Love of Writing

As I have mentioned before I journaled when I was a kid.  I started a journal when I was 10 and wrote one entire journal per year until I was 26 years old.  Due to my personality, it only made sense to me to start a journal on January 1st and to finish writing in

Empty Threats

One of the hardest things we can do as parents is follow through with discipline.  Especially when the punishment for the child also ends up being a punishment for the parent(s).  Tonight, I am at home with my 2 year old while the rest of the family is at my 7 year olds baseball game.

100 Miles Monthly

During the month of May I committed to myself to move 100 days in a row, then tacked on the challenge of moving 100 miles in the month.    At the end of May I was so inspired that I started a Facebook group called 100 Miles Monthly. I invited friends, friends invited their friends.

Lifelong Learning

On a daily basis I am reminded that there are things that I can’t control.  Well, for a control freak like me sometimes this is a challenge.  If I could stop to think about, I would know that I needed to knock it off.  The problem is that isn’t how my brain works, my brain

Just one of those days!

I didn’t have a very good night last night.  Lots of thoughts racing through my head, lots of deep breaths and some cigarettes smoked (which I was REALLY trying to quit).  My stomach was upset, I couldn’t eat dinner and I am not sure that I ever fell asleep.  Between my thoughts and the bad

My Perfect For Me Husband

So, some of us (hmmm…me over here) think that we are perfect, right?  Think that we have things all figured out and that the way we do things is the right way.  This leaves very little room to make a happy life with someone else. Truth is, I don’t actually think I am perfect, but