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Hacked*
A friend of mine texted me yesterday morning to tell me that he’d gotten a bizarre friend request on Facebook. Someone with an Eastern European name (complete with different characters) had requested to add him as a friend, but it was MY face he saw attached to the name. I asked him to grab a screen shot and send it to me, and sure enough, there I was. As I racked my brain trying to figure out how this could have happened, I remembered my second Facebook account. A while ago I created a Facebook account for my I Heart My Shoes page, so that I could still access it…
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My Word for 2018*
I have made New Years Resolutions since before I could remember. I’m the best at thinking hard about them, writing them all out, and going full-out to achieve them… for about three weeks. Then they tend to be pushed aside or forgotten until it’s time to make new resolutions the following year and I resolve to be even better at the resolutions I failed at. (vicious, vicious cycle.) Last year I went a different route and tried something new. Instead of making a list of resolutions, I chose one word that would be my goal for the year… and I tried to incorporate it into my daily life. My word…
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It’s All Coming Back to me Now*
A little over a year ago, I hurt my back somehow. I don’t remember exactly what I did, I just remember that one of my hips looked higher than the other and I had some pretty intense pain for a few days. I rested and saw my chiropractor, and it gradually subsided and all was well again. Or so I thought. That pain began to recur with increasing frequency over the next few months. Each time my right hip would hike up several inches and, and as a result I had trouble walking, bending, lifting, rolling over in bed and just moving in general. Sometimes the pain wouldn’t be too…
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The Summer of Dreams*
This is what I’ve been calling the last three months of my life–the summer of dreams. This summer (and subsequent “Sumtember”) has been everything I needed after a long, hard year. In my last post I decided to get real and share my struggles with post partum anxiety with you. I was SO scared to publish that post, but the response from my family and friends was overwhelming. It started a conversation about PPA that needed to be had, and I had several friends message me to tell me that they had been quietly struggling with it too. Finally giving my demons a name and acknowledging my struggle with PPA…
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September*
I’ve had a number of people ask me what I’m doing today. You see, today was the first day back to school in my board. This is usually my crazy time for job and day care interviews. It’s a season of hustle and bustle that is usually pretty stressful… so this year I decided to take another route. I’ve been hemming and hawing over what to do for months. My maternity leave officially ended with the onset of summer, so that left us with two months to make some pretty big decisions. It’s no secret that the last year has been really hard for me. I struggled with some new…
