photo credit: @glencarrie via Unsplash January felt like a year long. And I am not going to lie, it was a rough month. Not what I was expecting at the start of 2025. I really wanted to get back to writing here regularly, writing about positive things and finding joy...
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Oh hey, 2025. Happy New Year, friends. Or not so happy. I posted this on Instagram the other day. Not what I wanted to post at the beginning of 2025. Uff. This year is off to a rocky start. We are just about half way through January, and I’d like...
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photo credit: @cloudett via Unsplash 1. I was so happy that today was a federal holiday and I had the day off. I slept in late and had a very lazy day. After a week of work travel and my race yesterday, I needed that. I was woken up by...
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photo credit: @fr0k3 via Unsplash Rachel shared her thoughts on friendship a little while back, and what a timely post. I had been thinking about friendships myself. Rachel talked about how having twin babies to take care of has really shifted some of her friendships (at least temporarily). It’s interesting...
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On Sunday, we had an unusual visitor in our backyard. I was cooking dinner when Jon walked into the kitchen and caught movement out of the corner of his eye. When he looked outside, he saw this big bird sitting on our fence in the backyard. I immediately got out my...
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photo credit: @gaellemarcel via Unsplash I am loosely borrowing the ‘Coffee Date’ post idea that I’ve seen on other people’s blogs to give you a little life update (I’d give proper credit if I knew where the post idea originated but I’ve seen them on so many different blogs that...
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Oh hey, 2024. Happy New Year, friends. I started my new year like I always do – with a New Year’s Day Run. It’s become a bit of a tradition and I don’t want to jinx the new year by NOT starting it off on the right foot (literally). I...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2023 photo credit: @kellysikkema via Unsplash I read this interesting article a while ago about The lifelong effects of the favorite child, also called parental differential treatment (PDT). I find this a fascinating topic, both...
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photo credit: @houcinencibphotography via Unsplash Sometimes people ask me if it’s hard for me to switch between English and German. My sister would joke and tell me that I was ‘losing my German’ when I struggle to remember a word in German when we talk. The truth is, I still...
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Happy New Year, friends. I hope you all arrived safely in 2023. Please excuse the late New Year’s greeting. I have no idea how we’re almost halfway through January already, but here we are. We had a little bit of a wild start into the new year. California was hit...
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