In June I stepped out of my shorts and pants only life and into a life of skirts and dresses. For two weeks I wore only skirts and dresses, except when exercising. At first I felt silly putting on a skirt to putter around the house, although that was nothing compared to how silly I…
Category: Challenges
Lessons Learned from Failing My 30 – Day Wake-Up Challenge
My children started school on August 14th. Let’s take a moment to reflect on the fact that they went back to school in the absolute middle of summer. As someone who grew up in New Jersey, it is anathema to me to begin school in August, let alone in the middle of August, but here…
Day Ten
Today I noticed…. How productive you can be with a deadline. We saw our second real estate agent yesterday and she suggested we aim to have all of the work done in two weeks so that she can come in and take pictures. Two weeks seemed slightly tight when she was here. When she left,…
Day Nine
Today I noticed…how loud the birds are are 5:30 in the morning. They are deafening. It’s like the birds that nest in the tree outside my window are having a loudness contest. They can wake me from a dead sleep with a fan on. Sometimes, like this morning, they can wake me through the closed…
Day Eight
Today I noticed…red clay all over the floor of our kitchen. It just kept appearing. A spot here. A spot there. My middle two children had just returned from basketball camp. I zeroed in on them. I sighed exasperatedly as I wiped up the clay. I turned around. There it was again! I wiped it…
Day Six/Seven
Today I noticed… that there were leaves in our attic. In an effort to get our house ready to sell we are tackling those little nagging chores that don’t really seem important enough to get to, but weigh on your mind anyway. Things like redoing the upstairs bath faucet – not a huge priority since…
Day Five
Today I noticed… anxiety. After I finished lunch, and while my fifteen year old was making his lunch (having just woken up for the day…. After first waking up to have breakfast and then going back to sleep until after noon) I noticed a tightening in the front of my throat. I began to freak…
Day Four
Today I noticed that the models in the Lands End swimwear catalog don’t have real legs. I mean, obviously, they have legs. Their legs are real in the abstract. But, to look at them, they aren’t real. There are no bumps, lumps, or changes in color. They are two peach tapered triangles with no variation….
Day Three
Today I noticed…. The bugs. I was standing in the yard. Standing still in order to capture a photograph of the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird that is coming to my feeder. Standing still and getting a little warm as the sun beat down on me. Standing still and being eaten alive by bugs. On my legs. On…
Day Two
Today I noticed…how slowly time passes in a waiting room. This morning I waited at the vets for an hour with J and H. The minutes seemed to drag. And, while Hastings was a great boy waiting for his appointment to finish, my book was left unread since I was trapped in a very small…