Hope your New Year is starting off well. As I mentioned last week, ours is most unusual. Even as I write this, my husband is undergoing major oral surgery that will require months of recovery. And I have to admit, I’m not a very good nurse... I have a terrible time changing bandages. But I do [...]
This is a New Year unlike any we have yet experienced in our 70+ years of life – I continue to be challenged with Long COVID, my husband has oral surgery coming up in a week, we are still recovering from the building and moving process as well as getting settled into a new town. I [...]
We recently finished a delightful week of Thanksgiving/Christmas celebrations with our family. We loved having everyone here. For me, there is nothing like “eyeball to eyeball” time, hugging and laughing in person. I soak it into my soul. I especially enjoy this every other year tradition in our family – when we combine Thanksgiving and Christmas. [...]
The goal: how to get from “AGGHHH to Ahhhhh”. But when it comes to stress, we all deal with it in different ways. Before I learned these DISC System insights, whenever I was stressed, my tactic was to keep pushing through... don’t stop... don’t quit... make progress. But I found it only exacerbated the stress and [...]
So here we are – a little more than TWO weeks until Christmas, and THREE weeks until the end of the year. Are you feeling stress rising? Will even SEVEN cups of coffee not help you deal with it? First, let me say emphatically that Christmas is one of my top two most important times of [...]
Welcome to December and the Holiday Season. I dearly love Christmas and celebrate all month long. But the season also carries with it a lot of extra things we want to do – decorating, cooking, shopping, wrapping, concerts, gathering with family and friends. It can end up being a super-busy and stressful as well as a [...]
