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Life as a mom of 4
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Summer Recap 2025
Here are a few posts that recap some of my summer adventures: June trip to New York and Long Island Trip to Arizona to visit Jodie Atlanta Botanical Gardens In other news, I have been starting my meals including breakfast with veggies and added a lot more fresh veggies to my diet. I also increased my protein intake and make chia pudding to eat for breakfast every day. I also enjoyed the occasional treat from the French Bakery (Bonnins) about once a month and cut zinnias from our little garden to bring color to the kitchen. We enjoyed butterflies, foxes and deer in the yard! And of course, birds of…
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Friendship and Food
I was reflecting on friendships after my trip out to Arizona to visit Jodie and Rob. The way you make friendships changes as you grow older. As a child, you make friends at school, church and sports activities and that I think that continues till you graduate from college. Then you meet friends through work, social activities and church. For me, I still have a couple friends I am in touch with from high school (my best friend is a friend I made when I was 10-12), we have changed churches a few times in the past 15 years but I am in touch with only 2 friends a few…
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Goal Setting: Summer 2025
There are 2 more months in summer and as we near the end of summer break (only 3 more weeks left), I am now ready for some goal setting! June was a stressful month with my mom’s health and creating new routines there and my oldest looking for living arrangements for the fall semester at GA tech. Now that those routines are established and he has an apartment to move into in August, I can look forward to these coming two months. As I mentioned in last week’s post, June was a month full of anxiety, but July was a nice turning points with new routines. Family Goals visit my…
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Summer Flowers and Anxiety
If I had to sum my summer in one word so far, it is anxiety! While we had a nice little vacation and I have had fun with the boys and enjoyed the slow mornings, I really have been struggling with anxiety until about the last few days of June. I always have been a person who gets a little sick to my stomach when I am stressed or anxious (think job interview, a big bill…), but this summer, I feel like I have let it go to another level and I am struggling with letting go of being anxious. I think part of the reason anxiety is taking over…
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Weekend with My Racing Friends
Earlier this year, my friend Patricia suggested a Mother’s Day Weekend race with Atlanta Track Club. This race was to take place in Buckhead, in Atlanta and was to be 4 miles. 11 of us from our Saturday Sunrise running crew signed up and met for brunch afterwards. Patricia, her sister, my friend Gretchen (who I walk with and run with several times a week) decided to meet up the evening prior and go out to dinner and we stayed at nearby hotels. Gretchen and I shared a good laugh when I picked her up for our ride to Buckhead: we were dressed alike! It was really fun to have…
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Spring Highlights: Mid Spring Bucket List Updates
Here is the spring bucket list that I had come up as I didn’t have any big goals I wanted to reach. start having morning coffee on the porch eat lunch outside on sunny days plant zinnias and creeping Phlox (2 different spots) run 4 mile Mother’s Day race with my Sunrise Crew and Lunch decide whether to run half marathon (I did) plan lunch and family lunch for mom’s 80th birthday go on our vacations (booked for April and June) save some money for vacations thrift no more than twice a month arm and ab workout twice a week continue to walk and run 4-5 times weekly I really…
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Closet Refresh for Spring: Why I switch out my clothes twice a year
There is no right or wrong way to organize your closet, but there are ways to make it work for you. I have friends who keep all of their clothes out year round (you do have to have a large enough closet for that) so that they can wear items year round (think sweater over a summer dress in the cold months). Some people like to organize by color and/or type of clothes or like to create a capsule wardrobe, while others like to have a large variety of clothes to choose from. Some like to purge clothes every other season or year while others will try to make items…
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A Day in my Life
I always enjoy getting a peek into other’s people daily life so I decided to share another one: I thought I had shared more of these posts in the past, but these were the only two that I could pull up: I wonder what I would have named them. Here are a couple old ones: Oct 2019: A day in my Life (the kids were so little!) June 2020: A day in my Life (summer time) I chose a day towards the end of March to share: March was a month full of appointments (eye doctors, dentists and some of my parents appointments) as well as a tennis month for…
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Goal Setting: Spring Bucket List
Since my goal list for financial budgeting and family time (date night a month and weekly game night) is very similar to the one I shared in January for the 1st quarter of the year, this spring I am sharing a bucket list! Yesterday, I shared how well I did on my goals. start having morning coffee on the porch eat lunch outside on sunny days plant zinnias and creeping Phlox (2 different spots) run 4 mile Mother’s Day race with my Sunrise Crew and Lunch decide whether to run half marathon plan lunch and family lunch for mom’s 80th birthday go on our vacations (booked for April and June)…
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Goal Setting Recap Quarter 1
I am happy to say that I feel pretty good about the first part of 2025! For this recap, I will go down the list that I put together in a blog post at the beginning of January to see what I did accomplish and stick to. Blog/IG I did post 3 times a week on the blog and posted my OOTD in stories most days during the week. However, I did not stick to my plan of sharing budget deals and groceries on IG: I think I only did that the first month and a half. I also did not share free things to do in Atlanta on the…