cultivating me

it has been way too long since i have been able to sit down and just write. the main reason being i started summer classes. i was really excited to take a summer English course. i was all signed up only to learn, last minute, it was going to be canceled due to low enrollment. [...]

Happy Monday Everyone! I hope all you fabulous mom’s had a wonderful Mother’s Day! Menu planning has not only saved me a bunch of time and whining about going to the store ‘AGAIN?!’ but it has also saved me a bunch of cash! I didn’t quite believe it and thought maybe it was just a [...]

Last week, I set out to drink more water. I definitely need to keep working on that one! I did better in that I drank A LOT less Diet Coke this week than I usually do but half of the days, I fell short of my 64 oz of water goal. On those days, I [...]

I just finished reading “Black Like Me” by John Howard Griffin. It was recommended to me by my English Lit professor during the fall semester. I wish I had gotten to it sooner! This book was amazing. It was also very very sad. John Griffin a white reporter who sets out to discover what it [...]

Let me tell you, the one thing I need to do all of the time is make a to do list! I make one almost everyday so that I won’t forget all of the things that I need/should/want to do. I swear I would get nothing done without them! However, I never make a list [...]

#1 – My hair is naturally blond but for some strange reason a few years back I decided to that it wasn’t blond enough and so I decided to go with the bleach blond look. Bad enough but I made it worse! Shortly after bleaching my hair I decided to go with a brown/red color. [...]

Well. I didn’t get to my menu planning by Sunday as I set out to. However, I did get to it today and since I have the day off from school (finals week) and the kids will be with their dad this afternoon, I will have plenty of time to get my shopping done! I [...]

Are you drinking enough water? My answer is a resounding NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! I took the little quiz on the link above and learned that today – based on my weight, physical activity, local climate, etc. – I am to drink approximately 2.3 liters of water each day. How much water do I [...]

blue is my favorite color i’m alive and so have the privilege of being down in the dumps somebody somewhere has is worse off than i my monkeys and my sweetie and everything about all of them butterflies the wildflowers i planted last month are beginning to bloom hot chocolate – who cares if it’s [...]

I love birthdays!! I do not know how to express that enough – it possibly border lines as an obsession when someone I love has a birthday. For me it is always about making sure the other person knows they are special. After all, if you didn’t have a birthday, you wouldn’t be here and [...]