Summer’s here, and it’s time to celebrate!! This past week, we celebrated Memorial Day with the “traditional” cookout lunch. For Amnesty International Day, I had the girls each research a fact or two about Amnesty International. Coming up this week: 3: Repeat Day 4: Hug Your Cat Day 5: World Environment Day 6: National Yo-Yo…
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Happiness Project: Being Authentic – Item 2
For the past week, I worked on the first item of 22 Things Happy People Do Differently. I think I did fairly well at not holding grudges. This week, the challenge is to: 2. Treat everyone with kindness. While I trat most people with kindness, I’m not always so good at doing this with my…
celebrations: week 22 (27 may – 2 jun 2013)
School’s out! Hopefully we’ll have a little more time to celebrate now. This past week, we celebrated National Cheese Souffle Day, and Barbara brought us a big tub of strawberries from Merciers for “Strawberry Picking Day”. Coming up this week: 27 : Memorial Day 28 : Amnesty International 29 : Paper Clip Day 30 :…
Happiness Project: Being Authentic – Item 1
Time and time again, I return to considering how well I’m doing at being authentic. Apparently, this is a topic I need to revisit on a regular basis, as I seem to easily slip back into a place where I’m not being the best I can be. I remember that I started going through a…
celebrations: week 21 (20-26 may 2013)
I’ve decided to move celebration planning to Thursday to give me time to acquire any ingredients or supplies that I might need in order to celebrate … So far this week, we’ve celebrated “National Apple Pie Day”, “National Buttermilk Biscuit Day”, and “National Chocolate Chip Day”. I don’t know that we’ll attempt any others, except…
celebrations: week 20 (13-19 may 2013)
I had a hard time findgin any holidays other than food ones for this coming week. I think I need to find some other sources for daily holidays!! This past week, we celebrated “Clean Your Room Day” and “Mother’s Day” in the same way — cleaning the girls’ room. Coming up this week: 13 :…
mother’s day
Despite my desire to celebrate each and every day, I’m terrible at celebrating events like my own birthday and Mother’s Day and even Christmas. When the celebration gets *personal* and I’m expected to give meaningful gifts or send personal messages or cards, I fall apart. Take the crafts and recipes for “National Blonde Brownie Day”…
working for the weekend
Scrambling, scrambling this week to clear out my to do list. Table returned to IKEA. White t-shirt bought for Chloe. Work caught up on. Most of the “Goodwill item pile” sent on to new homes. Web page backlog almost cleared. Plans to change address with school system tomorrow. My motivation? Having a weekend in wich…
happiness project: energy (may)
So, how’s it going, this happiness project topic for May? Unfortunately, not so well. I have “sort of” done the Whole Living cleanse. But when I don’t feel good, I lose any and all motivation and willpower that I have. And I’ve only felt good/strong for about a total of ten minutes this week. It…
celebrations: week 19 (6-12 may 2013)
I have finally resigned myself to the fact that we are not going to have the “ideal” daily holiday celebrations that I was so hoping to have this year. But if I can get a few ideas together anyway, then next year it will be easier to have even better celebrations, right? Last week, we…
happiness project: Energy (May)
May is here! And now it is time for me to buckle down and retackle my Happiness Project. As I outlined last month, this month I’ll be focusing on energy once again. The main categories of items I’ll ba\e tackling this month are : sleep, food, drinks, supplements, exercise, and environment. The first week, I’m…
celebrations: week 18 (29 apr – 5 may 2013)
After a month of moving, a month of recovering and a month of traveling, I’m finally getting back to our daily celebrations. Slowly and simply but surely getting back to it. Last week, we celebrated National Pretzel Day without even realizing it! Coming up this week: 29: Zipper Day 30: International Jazz Day 1: May…
volunteering: fire caps
I admit. I’m a dork. Through and through. While I am what I am, it is not worth trying to fight it. I am so much better now that I am willing to embrace it. And tonight, I found my way back home to congregate with my Fire CAPS friends. We didn’t do much ……
Spring Break Day 1 : Decatur, GA
Our first full day of Spring Break didn’t take us very far, but that didn’t meant that it wasn’t lots of fun. While Camille, Claire and Phelix walked up to Claire’s house to get Chloe from her sleepover, I went over to the ribbon cutting for the new Decatur Visitor’s Center: Once Camille and Chloe…
happiness project once again
Why the project? I’m happy enough, aren’t I? I have a comfortable home, overall financial stability, family and friends. And a very crazy puppy. What’s not to be happy about? But, as Gretchen Rubin points out, that doesn’t mean that we can’t work in positive ways to pursue even more happiness and contentment. I would…
daily photo: easter eggs
I wasn’t sure that we were going to get them done in time, but we did …. Easter eggs dyed with beets, cabbage and turmeric.
photography dreams
I’ve had a camera ever since I can remember. I’ve had some 110 cameras, a disc camera (does anyone remember those??), a number of 35mm cameras and then a whole range of digital cameras. My dad has always taken lots of great photos, and as a kid I developed a desire to take photos. Maybe…
meeting gabby douglas
What a zoo it was at the gymnastics center when Chloe and I arrived. I dropped her off at the blocked driveway, then went to park the car much further down the street. By the time I got back, the gym was crowded with kids and parents awaiting the arrival of Gabby Douglas. Chloe had…
quiet around here
With Rob off in Ohio and Chloe on her Tybee Island field trip, it has been fairly quiet around here. I’m slowly starting to feel that I’m going to be able to dig myself out of my hole, albeit slowly. The to-do list is shrinking faster than it is growing for a change, and I’ve…
celebrations: week 10 (5-11 mar 2013)
At last! I’m finally ready to get back to our resolutions and traditions and celebrations, oh my! after moving. (Maybe I’ll get back to the kids’ music blog in a week or two …) This past week, the celebrations we missed were: 5 (National Cheese Doodle Day): Hula Hoop Patented 6 (National Frozen Food Day):…