The Personal

The Food Race

So this was my food stash from Sprouts last weekend. It certainly wasn’t a cheap score, coming in at approximately $135, but it was yet another hopeful start to my weight loss attempt. I say hopeful only because although I have the best intentions with food, one thing usually leads to another and it all […] Read more…

The First Week Back

I’m back. It’s Friday. 8:27 pm. One week completed. And it was hard. Very hard. I must have had at least two breakdowns per day. I mean, the very first morning back, on Monday, I sat frozen in my car, tears streaming down my face, some sort of song playing loud, trying to encourage my […] Read more…

The Anxiety of Returning

It’s Sunday night. The last Sunday night in which I won’t have to make sure my alarm is set for 5 am (and perhaps earlier now) to wake up and get ready to head back into my classroom on a Monday morning. And it’s even that getting up at that time is the problem; with […] Read more…

The Journey Begins

Hello. If you’ve stumbled across my page, I’ll have you know that I started this page on a Friday morning with my 12-week old daughter squirming around on her bouncer next to me and while my almost 2-year old son is tossing and turning on his fairly new toddler bed, fighting his afternoon nap, through […] Read more…