It's Monday. Spring break has come and gone and the weather finally seems to have turned the corner. Can I get an Amen?! How about a dose of sobering reality? No filter. No touch ups. Pre-workout photo from last week. In my in-need-of-a-makeover office. How about this one? I was totally going to make my annual skin screening at my dermatologist, I swear. Another mole was not playing nice. Except I just kept putting it off with lots of excuses. It's a long drive, it sucks up work time and I can't find a sitter. Blah, blah, blah. All excuses. All the time. Then the triple threat, as I am now calling it, appeared. It doesn't look so bad in the photo, except that it was. SO BAD. It was painful, large and two days before so swollen I looked like I … [Read more...]
Good Enough to Be Enough
In the past I have struggled hard to find a balance between work and life. I continuously felt that if I wasn't working my wheels were spinning out of control. My control over my work load and how much work I was doing defined me. At least I thought that it did and I even thought that I wanted it too. Yes, I took joy in the time I was home for only 3 days in one month while six months pregnant with my third child. Maybe it was that I used to hate my work and it was often just a j-o-b. The last few years weren't like that and it was all new and exciting and I just wanted more. Like a sponge I wanted to soak up as much as I could. Then 2012 happened and it was like a giant hand just knocked me on my ass. Or as I like to think of it, God just bitched slapped me and handed me my … [Read more...]