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    Anxiety: Crying Over Pork Chops

    I failed at life today…okay, that is a gross overstatement. But, I did fail at dinner. Tonight will go down in infamy as the night mom had a major meltdown over undercooked pork chops. That is how anxiety works…repressing and living in denial until that last, most of the time, small drop causes the glass to spill over. The first time I had a panic attack, it was triggered by the fact that I had accidentally shrunk the ironing board cover in the dryer and it wouldn’t fit. If I am completely honest with myself, I could have easily thrown the pork chops back on the stove. The thing that…

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    What If…Semicolon Movement

    What if Goob wakes up and I don’t get enough sleep.  What if I don’t get the boys to school on time.  What if I look fat in the yoga pants I chose for the gym.  What if I don’t have as good of a workout as I hope.  What if I don’t have the motivation to clean the house like I planned to.  What if I don’t finish my master’s degree.  What if no one reads my blog.  What if I never live up to the expectations of my husband.  What if Mr. Man deploys soon.  What if we can’t sell our house.  What if I never lose the baby…

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    Modern Calligraphy

    Interesting handwriting has always drawn me in.  I love beautiful texts and was totally the girl who would try to get away with using Comic Sans on every paper I wrote for homework in high school…to which all of my teachers loathed.  Modern Calligraphy, or hand lettering, has been something I wanted to try but never knew where to start.  I already have somewhat obscure handwriting and my dad teases me about it all of the time.  When I saw these how-to workbooks I thought I would dive in.  I first purchased The Guide to Mindful Lettering by Lisa Funk.  I was intrigued by her honesty about her backstory and wanted to…