cultivating me

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. — Archibald MacLeish *SIGH* If only I could convince my daughter of that! if only I could convince her that I’ve learned from my mistakes experiences and she could learn something from me. I’m not as crazy [...]

As I continue to struggle between knowing and doing I have had to seriously reevaluate my habits and goals and I have come to the conclusion that I just need to wipe the slate clean and begin again. LJ left me a great comment on this post and I have contemplated it a great deal [...]

i am very very good at beating myself up and keeping track of all the mistakes and poor choices i make but i rarely notice or take credit for the good choices i make.  i am sure that has a lot to do with the downward spiral my self esteem and joy has taken as [...]

I really do love this time of year but what I don’t love is all the temptation and my inability to resist.  I have faced some truths about myself recently and one of them is that I am unable to keep myself from eating all of the sweets in the house.  There are literally times [...]

I learned yesterday that a good friend was recently diagnosed with skin cancer. I cannot at this point in time properly process that information except to know how strongly I feel for her. She is an amazing woman. I have admired her since we first met 7 years ago on the playground of our children’s’ [...]

Or, at the very least, food to think about. I was catching up on my reading through Google Reader (I heart google reader) and came across this post. Ann has apparently been reading this book which is about one family’s journey to consume only locally grown foods for one year. Her post really got me [...]

Kids aren’t the only ones who feel them. I do too. My oldest son just turned 12 and I swear I don’t know what has happened to him this week – maybe it’s the tween thing, maybe he isn’t getting enough sleep (for the record, he is currently not doing any scheduled activities outside of [...]

my sweetie started singing this song randomly the other day and i surprised him by remembering most of the lyrics! Does this bring back memories for anyone? On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese. I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed. It rolled off the table, it rolled on the floor, And then [...]

Ah hah! I got to my menu plan on time this week. In fact, I got to it early and made up my menu over dinner saturday night with the help of my son. Here is what is for dinner this week Sunday: Enchilada Casserole – we didn’t get to this last week because of [...]

I saw this statement on a bumper sticker a few days ago and the thought has stuck with me and has been mulling around in my head ever since. While I am sure that the sticker was meant as a political statement, this post is not meant to be one. Ignorance and arrogance is bad [...]