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{Self-Care Challenge} Day #8 – Write A Worry List

{Self-Care Challenge} Day #8 – Write A Worry List

                  Okay, I know I’ve confused a bunch of you with today’s post. A little explanation, courtesy of Merriam-Webster: Worry: to subject to persistent or nagging attention or effort to afflict with mental distress or agitation; make anxious to feel or experience concern or anxiety Eww, none of [...]

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{Self-Care Challenge} Day #7 – Get A Hobby

{Self-Care Challenge} Day #7 – Get A Hobby

Read all the challenges here.  Until this point, I’ve been sailing along with this challenge. I bought myself an accessory, I cleaned up my bedroom, I’m doing well. But today’s challenge is stumping me and I’m not even sure why. Day #7 – Get a hobby The trick with this hobby is that it is [...]

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{Self-Care Challenge} Day #6 – Write 100 Things You’re Grateful For

{Self-Care Challenge} Day #6 – Write 100 Things You’re Grateful For

Read the rest of the challenges here. So. I talk about gratitude a lot. We just had a #SurvivalGuide chat about it a few weeks ago. I shared with you my gratitude project of 2011. And I’m back at it again. Because I know it’s hard to be super positive and happy all the time, [...]

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{Self-Care Challenge} Day #5 – Sleep Like A Baby

{Self-Care Challenge} Day #5 – Sleep Like A Baby

Read the rest of the challenges here.  The quality of my sleep for the past five or so years has been pretty crappy, as I’m sure you can relate. I put the kids to bed around 7:30, they call out for me around 8 complaining of thirst, I get them to go to sleep, then [...]

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{YML Voices} Once A Young Mom, Always A Young Mom

{YML Voices} Once A Young Mom, Always A Young Mom

by Trudi Lebron At 30, I may not be considered a “young mommy” when I am dropping off my three-year-old son, Kennedy, at preschool. I’m actually somewhere in the middle of the younger 20somethings with their first child and older moms who may be raising the last of their litter at 40. But when I’m [...]

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