Motherhood and the Coffee Shop.

February 27, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

I wouldn’t trade this for anything in the world. Motherhood. A little over one year into motherhood, and I’ve faced many challenges. Internally. Externally. With him. With myself. Things and people around me. I’m the mother I always knew I would be, and it has been fascinating to see how who he is has let […]

Tasty Thursday: Spinach Ricotta Cheesy Chicken.

February 25, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

(Let it be noted that that’s probably not the name of this recipe. It came nameless, and it’s the best description of what I made and am passing along the recipe for…) I have an aunt that’s really good at doing one thing with her Facebook… And that’s making me feel like I’m dying a […]

Supplement education – family style.

February 6, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

Last night, in the middle of our first significant snowfall of the season (which feels weird to say that, given where we live… but a different story for another day), my son, while splashing around in the bathtub, sending Ducky sailing through the air to plop messily in the bubbly water, points to my phone […]

Program changing. Need to stay focused because: Shoulders.

November 25, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’ve always enjoyed dabbling in other programs. Ones either created by a trainer friend of mine who lives in my town, or some of the fit pros I follow on social media. But, pre-baby, even during my pregnancy, I loved most the programs that I created for myself. Because I can write a mean program. […]

Meatless Monday: Gnocchi aioli.

November 9, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

When I’m in the heat of playoffs at work, life can get a bit insane. It’s often during that time, I’m either leaning heavily on the use of the crockpot, or I’m a bit obsessive-compulsive about food prep on Sundays. If I even have Sundays for food prep. Sometimes, when we have a record number […]

The dog is staying.

September 30, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

An interesting thing happened when I got pregnant. It wasn’t an avalanche of pregnancy stories from women who had “been there”. It wasn’t the start of the unsolicited advice. Or the judging stares when I wasn’t ballooning up in my weight as people expected. I was being told to be prepared to give away my […]

The Forgetful Momma: No egg, no butter pancakes.

September 28, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

I can’t really call myself a forgetful momma, because, well, I was this way pre-baby. Grocery lists and I are enemies of the biggest kind. I can remember childhood friends old house phone numbers. I can remember any birthday. Addresses. Names of all of my teachers. My brain retains some of the craziest, pointless “facts”. […]

Your brain on its first stroller run.

August 26, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

At my annual review, my boss informed me that he wanted me to do more writing. I cannot remember the last time I put out a column for our section. I’m just going to go with: that time I kayaked on my front lawn. Sounds good enough. Formulating thoughts for a column, especially limited to a […]

Changing the view of food. No weight-loss magic here.

August 3, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

I’m going to shatter the universe with my opening blog statements today. Hold on to your britches folks, because it’s going to be a big’un. There is no big secret to weight loss. There is no magic pill, powder, plant, food, or hobgoblin. The answer is not sitting in some top secret lab, buried in […]

Like a girl.

July 22, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

Each time I think about this campaign, this blog post takes a little bit more shape. You got us marketing gurus. You tricked us all. Hell, even I used the #likeagirl a few times on my social media posts right after the campaign first geared up in Super Bowl commercials. Then I really sat down […]