You expect that most posts where someone has just come off of some kind of sugar detox would be filled with enthusiastic epiphanies all about how the month started bad and then miraculously fixed everything wrong with the person’s gut, skin, and emotional health in general, which would then be rounded off with a dramatic …
January always seems to be about three times as long as any other month (not in a good way), but at least this year, we got some wins under our belt during that eterna-month! Sticking with tradition, we got sick right after the holidays (no surprise there), which extended into the first part of the …
A long time ago (okay, about six and a half years ago), I went on a cruise to Alaska. Each night, we went to the formal dining room for a multi-course dinner, and I came face to face with a truth I had never considered before: I was a LOT pickier than I thought I …
Each year, January comes with a burst of energy that comes from having a fresh start, and people everywhere make sweeping declarations of all that they hope to change this year — I’m going to lose the weight! I’m going to stay off my phone! I’m going to read more books! And then, so often, …
(Today’s post inspired by In Honor of Design’s similar post) A funny thing happened once we become homeowners for the first time—the first couple months, we were all gung ho about DOING ALL THE PROJECTS, and we got a ton of painting done, the majority of the unpacking completed, and a bunch of work done …
I had the best of intentions to have this posted on the first day of the new year…then we all came down with some sort of plague that has just kept producing new symptoms with each coming day, and a whole lot of not sleeping well at night, all of which has combined into a …
On January 11th (just a few weeks away–so weird!), I’ll hit the year mark of when I started working on my 101 in 1001 list. All in all, I have completely fallen in love with this new way of doing resolutions/goals/bucket list items/what-have-you, and I might not ever go back to the traditional practice of …
While I’m not one to EVER give up on setting goals (I mean, did you SEE my goals list right after having a baby? My motivation for goal-setting seriously knows no bounds…), I have been wanting for awhile now to ease up on certain areas, and I figured December is a great time to implement …
