I was thinking about Julie and Julia again today. More specifically, I was thinking about how it motivated me to really started writing again last fall… and how I’d like to do that again. I know I can’t always write often when life and work gets in the way, but I have intentionally slowed things down of late and I’m feeling that pull again. Maybe it’s time to commit to writing every day for a month again… I committed to my curly hair for a month, and if I can do THAT, then I’m basically a superhero and should be able to do anything, right? Today I took the plunge…

Each December I choose a new word for the coming year that I hope will reflect some of the things I’d like to achieve in the months ahead. I find it so much simpler to have one concept to focus on, rather than a big list of “goals” that I painstakingly write out… …and forget about three weeks later. My words in past years have been Brave, Strengthen and Do It. As I reflected on this past year a word kept coming to my mind over and over. At first it didn’t really make sense to me, but he more I thought about it as it continued to pop into…

We are finally through this round of the plague. I somehow managed to get through unscathed. Exhausted and completely worn out, but unscathed. Today was the first day where everyone went back to their normal routines–P went back to daycare, S & H went back to school, and M went back to work. And me? I had a day just for me and it was everything that I needed. After I herded everyone out the door, I collapsed on the couch and I just… sat. I sat and did nothing for a good 30 minutes and it felt SO GOOD. Then I turned on my early 00’s club beats and…

I should probably be napping, but enjoying a few moments of quiet solitude is too tempting. Everyone but me is asleep, so I wanted to steal a few minutes to write beside the peaceful glow of my Christmas tree. It was a long night. It’s been a long few days, honestly. H threw up all over our van while we tried to deliver Christmas parcels last Thursday, and everyone has been falling like dominoes ever since. Just as he started to feel better P got sick. Then last night I was up with M first and then S as they succumbed to this round of the flu, too. I am…

So, the “write often” was a bit of a fail. I’ve been really unmotivated with my writing lately… I need to get our Christmas poem / letter written and I’m really struggling to find the words. I know part of it is simply that this year was a really difficult one for me, and I don’t know how to pour that into a “happy” poem. I’m still mulling over it, but I know I’ll figure it out. I’ve been writing them for 12 years, I can’t stop now! I was doing really well with my eating habits, then Auntie Della passed and I went a bit off the rails again.…