Happy February, friends! I know everyone’s been saying it, but I’ll say it again… January was a LONG month! I think the day after Christmas my mind has already switched gears to goal-setting and planning what’s ahead, so I accidentally add an extra week to the new year. But we made it, and it was a good month. So many good things were cultivated in January for so many people, myself included. I set some new routines and habits and I started becoming more intentional in certain aspects of my …
Everybody, Always
“It’s given me a lot of comfort knowing we’re all rough drafts of the people we’re still becoming.” - Bob Goff - Everybody, Always Everybody, Always was the first book I finished in 2019. I’ve had it recommended to me numerous times, seen it all over social media (it has a memorable cover that I love!), and I finally just had to jump in and see what all the hype was about! So, I placed an order for the book on Amazon… and promptly let it sit on my shelf, unread, for four months. But I …
My Top Ten Favorite Books of 2018
2018 was FULL of incredible reads for me. 49 books, most of them new to me, many in genres I don’t usually venture into, and many with incredible stories that I didn’t expect. You can find my full list of 2018 reads here, but the ten listed below (in no particular order) were my top ten favorites - the best of the best! Although, I had quite a hard time narrowing it down to only ten… Still Life - Louise Penny This was one of those “bookstagram made me do it” scenarios. I’ve seen …
Why I’m Not Setting A Reading Goal for 2019
New year, new reading goal… or maybe not. In 2018 I set the lofty (for me) goal of reading through 52 books within the year. Considering that I had never completed more than 32 books in 52 weeks, this was a big undertaking that I honestly wasn’t even sure I would complete. But it sounded good in my Powersheets, and like I talked about in last week’s post, I was all about setting goals based on what everyone else was doing then, so it made sense. Fast forward to December 31st, 2018, and I was …
4 Important Lessons I’ve Learned From My Mom
Happy Thursday! Today’s post is a little bit different from what I normally share, but probably my favorite thing to write in a long time. Today is my mom’s 50th birthday, and while she and my dad are off traveling through Italy today, I’m sharing the four biggest lessons that my mom has taught me so far in my 24 years of life. I’m sure there’s been hundreds of lessons she’s taught me, like when I was in seventh grade and learned that TP’ing someones house stood for “toilet papering”, or more …