Planners: Ready Mindset: Eager, overall positive It’s January 1! Without meaning to, I’ve built a bit of an annual tradition of meeting up with my good friend (a peds endo) and her kids visiting from Baltimore, plus our other local mutual friend who is…
Maura asked: “You once referenced New Year’s Day is one of your favorite days of the year. In advance of New Year’s Day 2026, would you consider a post about how you structure the day or what you most enjoy to set yourself up…
IF you’re in a planning mood today (I mean, who isn’t!?), you are invited to join Nancy Reddy (author of Good Mother Myth) and me for a planning party! Nancy has hosted vision board sessions for years and asked me to join her this…
Inspired by Sarah J who read approximately 3.75 times as many books as I did! Stats: By the end of 12.31.25, I am confident I will have finished 50 books (I have about 30 pages left in Ina Garten’s memoir DONE!). These included 28…
Today’s episode is always one of my very favorites to record — I shared an almost-done draft of my 2026 goals. (I can confidently say that now they are done. I finalized them on the plane last night in Apple Notes and will be…
Our trip was a Monday to Sunday affair, 7 days total but 2/7 were travel days. For us this is perfect — I feel ready to head back even though the trip was relaxing and fun. Day #5 was our final ski day BUT…
I was a little bit nervous headed into this trip as the first one post-ARVC diagnosis. Partly because I wasn’t sure if skiing would trigger anything but also because I am in MUCH WORSE cardio shape than all other previous years of doing this…
First of all, I hope everyone celebrating Christmas had a very merry one! We had an amazing experience seeing aspects of nature I knew nothing about — it was pretty awe-inspiring and special. We took a snowcoach through Yellowstone Vacations after looking at a…
I have no complaints about day 2. Josh and I got to ski together — we did a bunch of green + blue trails and I felt mostly confident until the end of the day when my legs were tired and just felt like…
The snow was fine! Was it the best powdery snow I’ve ever been in? No. But it was still decent. And temperatures of 30-40 meant we were never really cold, which was great. We all skied all day and thoroughly exhausted ourselves, the kids…