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  • Lost motivation…

    Photo curtesy of Bridges Church Blog I’ve got about a hundred ideas swirling around in my head, but the second I sit down with my Chromebook, all motivation disappears. What is this, some kind of sick joke!? 😫 So instead, I’m writing about the very thing I’ve lost: motivation. How do you even get it…

  • Depression and the fight to survive it.

    Some days the depression hits you so hard it paralyzes you. All the stuff that needs to be done gets put on the back burner. You can hear it yelling from a distance, making you feel that awful guilt. But the heaviness takes over and you just sit there, blank, but full of racing thoughts.…

  • Creative Brains Don’t Fit in Boxes

    Have you ever tried homeschooling like a “normal” school day and wondered why your brain (and your kid’s) just screams, “Nope, not today!”? That’s us. My dyslexic teen doesn’t do school and school does not do her. So today’s lesson was cooking. Doesn’t sound like much, right? But you’d be surprised how much learning you…

  • Technology Overwhelm

    I’m not ignoring you, I’m just overwhelmed. Some days I feel like my phone is the boss of me. My phone seems to decide on how my day will go.It’s not just texts anymore. It’s the Facebook messages up the wazoo. The Snaps. (gotta keep up with the streaks). The Instagram DMs. The constant emails…

  • Lucky babies are cute..

    There’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of waking a baby up in the morning that has kept you awake all night. Hair all tangled, coffee calling, not sure if you’re in the realm of awake, asleep, the upside down, or the matrix. You look over, and there they are. Fast asleep. Peaceful. Like a beautiful…

  • Shoe storage..

    Our house somehow manages to produce shoes the way rabbits produce baby rabbits. Two pairs for each person might sound reasonable… until you realize that still adds up to 15–20 pairs cluttering the floor like some kind of footwear apocalypse. So when our old bed finally kicked the bucket, I had a lightbulb moment and…

  • Bottle Cap Art

    So you know when you have excessive amounts of bottle caps stored up from your past life drinking days? …no? Just us? Ok 🙃 Well we had a couple….of hundred…. What else would we do when sober, crafty and trying to de-clutter but the bin is overflowing? Make art! So we decided to make something…

  • Lessons from a 3-year-old

    Wow, aren’t we lucky to be seeing this amazing view? We need to focus more on the good things! Times are hard and stressful these days, so we have to make extra effort to remind ourselves… in the everyday chaos of life, school runs, to-do lists, endless notifications, financial stress, work, and appointments, it’s so…

  • Let’s talk about Mental Health

    Okay, full disclosure, I’ve basically had a season pass to therapy for most of my life. Last year, I got a shiny new diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and PTSD, with some bonus features like anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, and body dysmorphia. Basically, if mental health issues were Pokémon, I’ve collected quite a…

  • Falling Asleep Since 2011…

    Honestly, all I want to do is watch Happy Gilmore 2. I’ve hit play five times now and I still haven’t made it past the halfway mark. At this point, I know the opening scenes better than I know my own phone number. I just can’t stop falling asleep! If you have children, you can…