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I’m rather addicted to Instagram, and sometime in January this year – because of several IG posts – I became convinced that I should start weightlifting, so I messaged a friend who was very much into going to the gym and asked him to walk me through some exercises. He […]
What if I told you that you could stop prepping? Yep. Just stop. No more worrying about what happens if the grocery store shelves are empty. No more wondering whether you have enough food put back. No more thinking through what your family would do if you lost an income, […]
Oh! You have to hear this story. The week after I started watching what I was eating, I went out and ran a 5K! NOT!! I have been sedentary for nearly all of my life since college. There were days when, as a stay-at-home mom, my pedometer said I was […]
Contending with People Kids sometimes say the darndest things. Yes, but you expect them to do so when they’re somewhere between two and six—not when they’re nineteen. And certainly not when the whole family is going through a struggle together. Our hard season was not the kind of hard where […]
Numbers don’t define who you are. They don’t. But when I weighed 324.6 pounds (yes, you read that right!), it might not have defined me, but it limited me. The effects of that number limited how far I could walk. It limited my sleep. It limited my physical ability to […]
It’s been … about three months since you’ve heard from me. Three Long Months. And I have a pretty good excuse. Over the past few months, I’ve been working on two projects that have consumed a huge part of my life. One of them started with a doctor’s appointment and […]
I don’t know about your house, but summer is well underway in our house. Summer means that the kids have more free time, and I usually have more free time. When my kids were younger, I spent a lot of time doing readalouds with them. Here are some of our […]
Can you believe it’s summer already? Next Monday is already Memorial Day – the unofficial start of summer. Is it just me or does every year seem to go faster than the year before? I’m sure this summer will be no different. When my kids are small, I tried fo […]
When I started this article it was going to be “Five Things to Create Space for This Summer,” but as I wrote, I realized there was something that I needed to write about first. Oh, I can hear ya now. “Karen, while there may be value in having time to […]
We are all busy people. Despite all of our time-saving gadgets, our days fill to overflowing so quickly. We all want to keep up with our prepping tasks, but there are aspects to preparedness that just take time, and there’s no way around them. Sometimes all it takes is us […]
