The Ups, The Downs, and Everything in Between
First, Happy New Year! I can not believe we have entered a new decade and its 2020! And, yes, it is a new decade; I am sorry but if you’re one of the assholes that feel like the new decade doesn’t start until 2021 then we can’t be friends. This year feels even that much more significant to me because I graduated high school in 2000; the year of Vitamin C graduation song. It is really causing some even harder reflection of where I am …
Christmas time to me brings so many feels. The older I get, the faster time seems to pass. How many times do Facebook memory reminders pop up, especially around the holidays, showing us our precious moments from years ago. The pictures capture a moment, but that may not tell the whole story. I have started a tradition with my family that I would love to share with you. Every year, after Christmas and presents and all the merriment is over; when I am getting ready …
I have a lot of stress right now. I mean A LOT. I mean during certain times of the day I don’t know if I am about to hysterically laugh or hysterically cry or just fart really loud. So basically there is an anxiety blast that is about to come out of my body in some way shape or form. It’s that time of year in general for a lot of us. If it isn’t year end stuff that is going on at work, it …
It is just so trippy being a parent sometimes. I don’t know how many of you find yourself having this deja vu moment, although its role reversal, but you are having the same conversation you had with your own parent – as the parent. <shudder> I distinctly remember feeling my mom had no idea what I was going through or that she would never understand my complex emotions and situations I found myself in as a pre-teen or teen. Now that I have a pre …
“I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a cool mom!” I can’t tell you how many times I have said that to my friends and laughed. Amy Poehler does such a great job delivering that line in Mean Girls. But now, in this moment, I’m like shit, I have to stop saying that. Let me tell you what happened. I had an early morning snuggle with my girl on the couch and it was so nice because it doesn’t happen too often any more. She …
Standing in line at a speedway with my 9 year old daughter, I was absolutely mortified by what a middle aged man was doing right behind us. Let me paint a picture of this person because, as you may of noticed I said middle aged, he was salt and peppery and not some teen or even early twenty something that is at that self absorbed point in his life that he doesn’t realize there are people around him, no he looked mid forties to early …
Recently I was honored with a nomination for the Chicagoland Admin Awards, and was beyond thrilled to find out I was a finalist for the Leadership Award. I could not believe it! It was the most exciting day to read my name as a finalist! This award represented so much to me. First, I truly love my job. I may complain about the stress or how tired I am or getting a call about the alarm going off in the middle of the night (I …
My kids are finally at the ages when each holiday I wonder, “Is this is the one when they stop believing?” I had a friend in college that told me her mother said, if any of her children told her they don’t believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny, then they won’t get presents. She laughed when she told me that, and loved her mother’s need for her happy bubble of holding on to her children’s innocence. At the time I thought, while a sweet …
I would like to start a support group. I am going to call it P.E.T.; Parents of Emotional Terrorists. It is really the perfect name because, A. who doesn’t like to be pet when they are going through an emotional shake down, and B. most pets are like little therapists when you are going through a hard time. Don’t think this is something that needs to exist? Well let me paint a little picture of how our support groups will go; come with me on …
I was fortunate to be able to hear Mel Robbins give a presentation at an event my company hosts, Refuel. She was a little power house! Little, because she is petite, but man she owns that stage and looks like she is 6 feet tall up there! Because of the event, I started subscribing to her newsletter. Half of the time, well maybe more than half of the time, I end up deleting the email because I have a million emails to sort through …