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2014: on spending thoughtfully
A few years ago I made photo books of Javi’s first year via MyPublisher. Though the price was right (they have great sales all the time), the experience was frustrating and made me miserable and crazy....
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Someday soon I’ll have to decide…
We are STILL working on the $$^%^^$% kitchen, but someday soon (as in, two, maybe three days from now? Too optimistic? Must. Believe. Despite. Reality.) we will wrap up the never-ending finish work...
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Bear with me; I’m processing.
It’s been a rough few weeks, ending in a fairly major decision to move my son and I away from our home (and my husband) to my mom’s while my husband finishes getting our house ready to sell. I know...
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Living in limbo and finding the bright side
When last we met, our hero and his mama were going to move cross-country to live with grandparents while his daddy finished working on the house. Or, in his words: “We goin’ to Amas wif Mama and Daddy...
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Day in My Ideal Life
One of my favorite exercises for so many situations is called “Day In My Ideal Life”: without any prepping or forethought, take a quiet moment and write down what a full day in your ideal life would...
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Waiting and Being and Not Doing and other lessons
I am here, half a country away from our (finally on the market) house. My husband is there, managing the myriad of details remaining to be completed. I listen as he vents his frustration about not...
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I should be doing other things…
… work things. Power Point things. Productive, useful things. Instead, I am trying valiantly to avoid stalking Redfin.com for new listings in our preferred Seattle neighborhoods. We have the financing...
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Oh, hey, someone forgot how to blog!
So, my last post was supposed to have more going on but I was a little quick on the Publish trigger, so… You do this Day in My Ideal Life exercise and suddenly you see what matters. To this point, I’d...
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I hereby deputize you to remind me of the following, upon threat of force:
My husband and I are innately different people. He is an optimistic, experiential, confident, next-step-at-a-time kind of thinker. (In my world, we often call this personality “an engineer.”) I am a...
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Three year olds are serious psychological mediums… and many, many other thoughts
Eight months ago I wrote about how Javi and I do transitions, the phases we go through and how we’d gotten into a rhythm, almost, with fairly predictable steps. If you have a three year old, or just...
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Four year olds: from tiny to vast
When my son was three, I learned a lot about managing emotion, or at least, I saw a lot about how emotion works when left unhindered by thought or expectation. He felt, he reacted, he let it run...
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