I recently {in the midst of a global pandemic and record levels of unemployment} made the decision to leave a very stable job with a company I had been with for nearly six and a half years to return to the first company I ever worked for in my career. Granted, I was in oil […]
Ah Halloween, one of my favorite holidays of the year. Because who doesn’t love all things spooky? Ghosts and goblins, witches and vampires, haunted houses and, of course, this year’s new frightful addition…COVID 19. Ruining holidays and special occasions since March, am I right? You’re a real son of a witch, 2020. Go brew yourself. […]
Can you believe it’s been almost 8 months, give or take, since we first heard of Covid-19? Social distancing came into play shortly after that in March, and after that mask wearing, and now we’re already in September. Where did the time go? It feels so crazy to think we’ve been living in a different […]
After years of paperwork, home studies, and tears, it finally happened—we adopted! But not the way we had imagined. We chose to adopt a lovely teacher at a local Katy elementary campus who is a fellow foster mom. We followed suit as hundreds in the community circled educators and embraced them during a time that […]
I would be telling you a gigantic lie if I denied the fact that I have spent the past few months of quarantine wishing away the year 2020 entirely. With each new month that greets us, another unexpected threat or worry presents itself and adds to the growing list of things that consume my thoughts […]
I remember back in February…or was it March? Time means nothing anymore, Jeremy Bearimy, am I right? Anyhow, back in the beginning of this mess we are calling a pandemic, it was a total emotional roller coaster. Fear, panic, anxiety, gratitude, relief, worry. My feelings ran the gamut. When daycares shut down, I was […]
Ya know COVID…I really thought you’d be gone by now. Back in March life as we knew it went haywire with virtual school, the sudden loss of human contact outside of our immediate families, masks, no masks, masks again. So much information being fed from all different directions. I think it is safe to say […]
A few weeks into quarantine, I stumbled upon the Mecca of IG profiles: @gocleanco. I’ve always considered myself a fairly clean person and I love order, but this woman takes it to a whole new level! She knows how to clean anything and everything and opened my eyes to how much filth we’re all living […]
I’m tired. But I’m lying awake, thoughts racing all night, popping Ativan to shut it off. I’ve never had to use that before, even in my worst anxiety. I attempt to hold my office, my home, and my daughter’s classroom under our too small of a space roof. It’s a great reminder that we need […]
A Sweet Gesture One of the most touching memories from this past school year was of my son’s fourth grade teacher at our front door, masked and holding a bag containing an end-of-the year gift. The kids had been logging into her Zoom sessions for months. I discovered that the younger siblings had been hovering […]
