Journal For My Kids #5
Dear Kids, Yup, the pandemic is still on. Yup, it’s Election Day. Yup, it’s been an interesting time. It’s been kind of interesting to watch everything going on, all the rallies and events where masks…
Dear Kids, Yup, the pandemic is still on. Yup, it’s Election Day. Yup, it’s been an interesting time. It’s been kind of interesting to watch everything going on, all the rallies and events where masks…
It’s almost that time again for National Novel Writing Month. I think of this time with fondness, but am less fond of the fact that it always creeps up on me when I’m super busy.…
September was a real struggle. Between distance learning, taking care of a toddler, finding time to read and blog, and just generally living and keeping 4 people alive and well, I’ve been on the verge…
I can’t believe it’s been a year now since I’ve made these changes to my blog, and they’d stuck! There have been a few minor changes along the way, but, for the most part, this…
Dear Kids, It’s been about a month. A month full of distance learning and wildfires. Yes, the pandemic is still going on. We’re 6 months in, and Mommy is finally starting to lose it. I…
Dear Kids, We made it! Not to the end of the pandemic, unfortunately. No, that’s still ongoing. And going and going and going. It’s been over 5 months now, but Dad is feeling really good…
Summer has come to an end. Tomorrow my little boy starts First Grade. First of all, how dare he grow up, turn 6, and go off into the numbered years of school? It’s sometimes hard…
Once upon a time, The Lily Cafe was a writing blog in 2013-2015. I shared my fiction and some poetry. Most of it’s still there if you’re curious; they’re too much a part of what…
Dear Kids, It’s been a while. The last journal was about Brother graduating from Kindergarten. Now we’re a little over a week until he starts First Grade. Virtually. The Last Safer at Home Order Journal…
As a psychology student, I learned about motivation, about external and internal motivation. I also learned about attribution, whether someone attributes success and failure to something outside or within themselves. People will say their destiny…