The Ups, The Downs, and Everything in Between
I don’t know about you, but I am missing the shit out of my normal life. Like COME ON ALREADY! I feel like, for everyone, there are about 50 shades of handling the “stay at home order” depending on how strictly you are following this. In the Lieberstein household we are in a pretty severe lock down. I don’t have anyone with a compromised immune system, just a feeling that we typically have the worst kind of luck. Like I would be the one bitch …
I don’t know about you, but throughout the day I find myself in a complete “should” storm. I should be focused more on work, I should be focused more on the kids and their e-learning, I should have more patience, I should learn to sew, I should get up early to run, I shouldn’t have eaten pizza for lunch: and the list of “should” could go on forever. I have a feeling I’m not alone, so let’s agree to take our steaming piles of “should” …
I have a couple confessions to make. First, we are almost two weeks into the new year and I haven’t been sticking to my resolutions already! Ugh! I really wanted to make myself start asking for what I need, for what I want, and I’m not going to lie to you, I have been kind of a chicken shit about it. I think we have established a safe space here, so we need to be real with each other. I am, however, going to keep …
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 …