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‘Twas the Night Before Back to School: Covid Edition
‘Twas the night before back to schoolI mean, what in the world?!We didn’t think it’d look like thisFor our boys and girls. No school bus is coming…No in-person classrooms,Remote learning for now,And logging into Zooms Recess will look more like,“Please, go play outside!”While mom sits inside sippingRed wine while she cries. Okay, not everyday,But yep, y’all this is it.For the parents, the teachers,And our kiddos- don’t forget This adjustment is big,So we must calm their fears,Encourage, support, love, learnLean in, wipe their tears They’re missing their friends,Teachers, structure, and classesAnd we hope it gets easierWith each day that passes And yes, let’s thank all our teachersDoing it with style and…
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Nutrition Simplified- Achieving Balance and Sustainability
Nutrition is my jam. Now, anyway. It wasn’t always. Yeah, I ate “healthy”. Lean Cuisines and Diet Coke used to be my jam. I paid zero attention to what I was putting in my body, but fully believed that a 1500 calorie salad was a good lunch choice and could nearly eat my weight in steak, baked potato, and buttery green beans at dinner… protein, carb, veggie, right? About 5 years ago I committed to and dove into a fitness and nutrition program that would forever change the landscape of how I approached my nutrition. One that allowed for balance. See, I was always under the impression you could have…
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Mommy Guilt
Mommy Guilt. We all have it… It starts when they’re teeny tiny, that first week old and thinking “Man, I just want to take a shower without this tiny earthling attached to me around the clock!” And as soon as I jump in the shower it never fails, the baby cries and the guilt sets in! Now that they’re a little older the guilt is less…guilty… I guess. But I still get that heartache when I have to leave them for an extended period of time. I was thinking that last night as I was packing my bags for our 4 day getaway this weekend to Nashville, that this will…