October 9, 2017

Intentions for the Week

Happy Monday! Writing this Sunday night. Listening to Led Zeppelin and drinking iced tea. It feels too good to close my eyes. That’s how tired I am. We had a full weekend with family and it was awesome!

We were in the city with family for Fleet Week and we spent the whole time eating and drinking. This is why I am not on the Whole30 plan right now. Is anyone on it? Maybe I’ll start soon…

This week is a catchup and get organized week. There are some trouble dumping zones around my house right now that I have to clean up. The pantry is looking a little rough and I need to do some straightening.

Intentions for the Week:

catch up on writing letters
take pen pal photos/post on @thehandwritingclub
bookkeeping
catch up on social media
meet with Madeleine
play date with class mates
school conference
make a pasta dish for the blog
figure out a new pumpkin recipe
plan another ladies craft night
go on a hike/do yoga/EXERCISE
return library books/find two rogue library books
LAUNDRY like a mofo
research plants for front
drink more water (this is helping)
clean up workspace
keep the sink CLEAR this week
return Stitchfix order
continue working on morning pages/artist’s way
don’t eat bread/crackers

my everyday life, Photography

October 8, 2017

My Everyday Life: Week 40

Here’s what this past week looked like on My Everyday Life- Week 40

Happy 9th birthday, Cooper!

We celebrated at Buckeye in Mill Valley.

I made brown butter chocolate chip cookies from Joy the Baker for school (I added marshmallows!) and they were well received!

10:20 am in my kitchen.

Trip into the city!

LISTS

October 6, 2017

I Love Lists

Welcome to I LOVE LISTS. It’s Friday, let’s surf the internet together.

Hello, future me.
What Not to Say to a New Mom with Postpartum Depression
I want to live in this house
No kidding…
This made me laugh so hard. This also- PAPYRUS
I’ve never wanted a greenhouse until now.
Anyone else watch Jeopardy? This guy was hilarious.
Oprah, the farmer!
I am so glad that I didn’t grow up with this.
A little bit about creepy Hugh Hefner.
AMEN
My favorite pens- Part 1 and Part 2
You can visit horror movie locations in real life.
Advice on how to spend less online.
A story of how to make brown sugar from scratch. Thanks Maj!
Why digital notetaking will never replace the physical journal. YES.
How to get kids to really talk about their day at school.
If you have a mosquito buzzing around your room at night.
Goodbye, middle class, goodbye TGI Fridays.
Book alert: Feed the Resistance /Braving the Wilderness /A Glorious Freedom
A house made of shipping containers. Interesting.
Jealousy will kill your creative freedom.
Tom Petty was a music video innovator. RIP

October 3, 2017

Currently: September 2017

Currently September 2017

Let’s wrap September up, shall we? Since we’re already 3 days into October. September was a pretty hectic month with the start of school and all. We’re developing a new rhythm and routine. More homework, more hustling, MORE to remember and a whole bunch of get-togethers thrown in the mix! Fall baseball season is in full swing too so our weekends occupied for awhile. I honestly don’t know how people do it with more than one child.

All of my healthcare checkups are done for the year….just in time to put HOURS into figuring out what healthcare plan isn’t going to kill us. Literally? I just knocked on wood. Worry not. It’s incredible what it goes into maintaining life. OK SO SEPTEMBER. Let’s get into it.

Inspired by:

My zen garden has been inspiring me. It’s coming along slowly but surely. I’m curious how it will hold up during the rainy seasons. I’m going to be sad when there are no leaves on my Japanese maple.

It’s teaching me how to have patience, pay attention and be hopeful. Most of my garden has been made with propagations from other plants in my yard and that makes me happy.

We also got rid of a giant dead tree in our yard. It brought like back in and I am grateful for that.

This is my dream for our front yard…. it’s the Sun Garden at Marin Arts & Gardens Center.

I sat there for 15 minutes and made notes.

Have you seen Lady Gaga’s new documentary Five Foot Two on Netflix? It’s really good. What she doesn’t talk about is that she has fibromyalgia. I thought it was cool to see the behind the scenes of record making. I’ve been listening to it non-stop, so I suppose it worked!

For about a week and a half, I woke up early and did morning pages a la Artist’s Way. This week I’m having a hard time getting out of bed. In the process, I’ve also been looking through some of my old diaries and finding some interesting things. It feels like time travel…and I like seeing little clues of my past self that I left for present Tracy.

Inspiration, LISTS

October 2, 2017

Intentions for the Week

Happy Monday! We had a pretty lowkey weekend and I’m quite happy about that. I caught up on a bunch of cleaning and we ended Sunday with baseball and watching home videos of Cooper because today he is NINE!!! NINE years old. Unbelievable. We’re baking Joy’s Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies to celebrate at school. Let’s hope I don’t get into any.

Last week was pretty hectic. I never felt like I got my bearings and it actually went by quite fast. I finally went to the dentist and chiropractor! YAY. I think I am going to make a rule for myself that I will plan all my doc/dentist appointments around my birthday so I won’t forget. This week I have a bunch to catch up on. I can’t believe it’s October already! Here goes a brain dump of my Intentions for the week!