June 11, 2018

Intentions this Week:

Happy Monday, friends!

This is the last week of school for us. Goodbye, THIRD GRADE. HELLO, FOURTH GRADE (sniff sniff). We have a few short days and then we’re on our way to SUMMER. This week I don’t have much time to get all the things I want to get done so I am focusing more on the things I NEED to get done. When I have restrictions on my time, it forces me to

WORK SMARTER

not HARDER

and what does that look like? It means I have to

STOP

and take a

MOMENT

to write down the things I need to get done and figure out

A CREATIVE GAME PLAN

to get it done.

Here we go! Here are my

INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK:

spend a morning doing bookkeeping
tackle laundry/straighten up laundry space
catch up on social media
send out poshmark sale
repot plant in bathroom
use Fitbit
figure out notecards
put together father’s day gift
make an appointment with a counselor
get a hike (or two!) in this week
schedule play dates
make kombucha
make Thai Basil Beef for the family
pack up baseball bag
continue work on #100daysartbeforebreakfast
post new cocktail recipe
eat more greens
eat outside!
wash out my water bottle & drink more water
fill up the bird feeder
post Summer Bucket List/help Cooper work on his
nurture new friendships/check in on old ones
send an unexpected letter to a friend
eat to nourish not to numb

Last Week’s Intentions:

~~get caught up around the house & on the computer~~
clean up email inbox
~~catch up on social media~~
~~use Fitbit~~
~~go for a walk/workout~~/yoga
delete photos from phone
~~make kombucha~~
~~make mint iced tea~~
plan a little meal prep for the week (made a few small things)
~~wash out my water bottle & drink more water~~
~~post Currently May 2018~~ (check it out here)
~~stay on top of laundry~~
~~vacuum inside of car~~
fill up the bird feeder
~~send letters~~
~~work on workbook~~
~~self care: give myself a manicure~~/get massage
~~work on Summer Bucket List~~
shoot new items for The Handwriting Club (the #100daychallenge is taking up my time!)
~~prep for work lunch~~
~~clean out car after field trip~~
~~eat to nourish not to numb~~
get enough sleep (better but not enough!)
~~meditate & breathe through the stress~~

Mantra for the Week:

Have a wonderful/productive week! Don’t forget to write down your own Intentions for the Week to help hold you accountable to ACTION!

my everyday life, Photography

June 10, 2018

My Everyday Life: Week 23

Here’s what this past week looked like- My Everyday Life: Week 23

A moment of calm before a meeting. I love the yellow flowers on the Marin headlands right now.

On my way to get coffee before a field trip.

(the calm before the storm)

A thrift store find that has lowered our blood pressure.

The color!

Goodnight, sun.

LISTS

June 8, 2018

I LOVE LISTS

I hope Cooper’s closet looks like this one day.
If only they had cool diaper bags when Cooper was a baby.
Perhaps I need to start thinking of my clothes as a dress code
KFC is coming out with meatless fried chicken. Curious.
Time’s best podcasts of 2018 (so far)
It’s commencement season! Here are some good pieces of advice.
The best restaurants in SF right now. Ryan, we have a project!
This is what social media is doing to restaurants now.
I had a few laughs out of this one.
Perfectly timed photo alert!!!
Man vs. Nature in Dubai
IHOP is turning into IHOB (is the B for breakfast?)
Mental Health is so important for our survival.
Dorm room design is so fancy. My dorm was a prison.
If you grew up in the 90s…
Curious about that broom & bathtub cleaning trick…
Moms are in the boss.
These Birks are so cute. Oh, and these ones too!
Omg. It’s a robot that I actually want.
Time to bust out some glasses…
If you’re into one-hit wonders, here are 100 of them.

Enjoyed every last bit of Cold Soba Noodle Salad leftovers.

Picked up my favorite brush pen to write this week. I missed it!

The sunsets right now.

The hope of Summer.

The way my garden is looking.

The smell of roasted strawberries in my kitchen right now.

recipes

June 6, 2018

Cold Soba Noodle Salad

It’s time to shock my body back into health. I usually do it with a Reset Button Salad but last week I was shooting & styling a recipe for One Potato and I turned their cold soba noodle salad into epic leftovers. I shared it on my Instagram stories and people asked for the recipe so I recreated it just for you. I added fresh arugula, cilantro avocados, slivered almonds to the mixture of soba noodles, peppers, snap peas, green onions, and sesame seeds. Emphasis on the arugula and cilantro. That’s what made it more salad than noodle and that’s the way I like my noodle salads.

That’s a lot in one bowl, huh?

I’ve been eating this for lunches this week and had it for once dinner. Every time I go in for another serving, I add a splash of lime juice and some fresh avocado and whatever arugula I have left in the fridge. This is exactly what I need as we head into the Summer and I contemplate wearing a bathing suit (in public).

Inspiration

June 5, 2018

Currently May 2018

Goodbye, May. Hello, JUNE!

May was a busy month for me. I have a really exciting project coming up in August and I can’t wait to share that with you, but behind the scenes I’ve been up late at night editing photos, writing and getting stuff done. My brain was in overdrive and we also had so much baseball on top of that. I had a hard time finding my bearings at times.

May was filled with adventure. I went to a lot of places with friends and it was a really good distraction from missing my mom on our first Mother’s Day without her.

Speaking of Mother’s Day. Ours was mellow, just how I wanted it to be.

I asked for:

a clean house (my boys cleaned!)
new plants/trip to the nursery
takeout dinner
time to myself

And I got all of that.

Thank you, family.

It’s a good lesson that if you don’t ask, you don’t get!

June is coming up so that means we have to work on our Summer Bucket List!

LISTS

June 4, 2018

Intentions for the Week

Hello Friends! Happy Monday to you. It’s June! Whoa!

This weekend we had baseball championships and unfortunately, we lost. We played one heck of a game though. All Sunday I worked on paper piles, did gardening, and sorted things in my office. Life requires maintenance!

This week I have a few appointments and a field trip to drive on. I’m hoping to get a lot of things knocked off the TO DO LIST before Summer arrives in the Shutterbean household. That reminds me…I need to make a list of all the summer activities we like to do to occupy the time. Library visits are definitely a prerequisite.

Let’s see what my Intentions for the Week are: