Category: Lifestyle

Oprah’s 2020 Vision

Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus (a partnership with WW) is touring in 9 major cities and began on January 5th with Lady Gaga as the special guest in Ft. Lauderdale. The tour ends on March 7th in Denver with Gayle King as the special guest. On February 15th, I went to see Oprah at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, along with 17,000 other people. I was interested to see how Oprah was going to inspire and encourage the 17,000 attendees to live their best life. Her guest for the day was Tracee Ellis Ross, star of Blackish and daughter of Diana Ross. She was great! The day was filled with upbeat energetic music, Oprah sharing her own WW journey along with past weight loss and weight gain stories, an awesome interview with special guest Tracee Ellis Ross, a high energy short dance class led by Julianne Hough […]

So Much Excitement!

Kansas City is booming with energy after that Super Bowl LIV win! Mike is such a quiet guy on a daily basis, but when it comes to sports his personality does a 180. He is like a kid right now and it’s kinda cute. I think I’m just as excited for him as I am for the players on the team! The city is lit up in RED! So proud of our team. I made a few simple things for Super Bowl Sunday and the only thing I ate that I wished that I hadn’t was my fingernails. I know. Gross. That was an INTENSE 4th quarter!! The last couple of weeks have been full of accomplishments and surprises. I’ve had several task that I approached with intent based on my word for the year, CREATE. I’ve kept that word in the front of my mind each day of the […]

Starting 2020 Strong

Today it’s colder than a wi…………… well, it’s really cold. Icy roads, schools cancelled and most morning WW Workshops closed as well, so I took the opportunity to curl up by the fire and say hi to you all. I chose “Create” as my word for the year. Creating boundaries, creating spaces and creating routines were at the top of the Create list. Creating a routine was something I really wanted to do for 2020. Being back in the yoga studio has reminded me how strong I feel when I am there and how much I appreciate what my body can do for me. I have created a Yoga schedule for the week and that feels really good. I put my yoga classes and walks in my calendar as an appointment with myself. This is feeling really good. I got in a nice brisk walk before the Chiefs win on […]

My “2020” Word

I like this idea and I am asking WW members in the workshops if they choose a word for the year and many of them do! I put this question on Instagram stories and these are just a few of the great words people are using. I’ve really been putting some thought into my word for the year. Choosing Gratitude and then adding Mindful really worked well for me last year. I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to get out of this year and I now have my word. “Create“ I’d like to I am going to (ya see what I did there?) create spaces for relaxing, create routines for activity and bedtime, create art, create activities to do with the family and create boundaries in several different areas of my life. This feels really good to think through. If you haven’t done it, go ahead and give it […]

Happy 2020!

Whether you had a night in or a night out, I hope you all brought in the new year just how you wanted to! Loooooong post here. Grab a cup of coffee or scroll through to what might interest you. I’ve got a mouthful today. Or is it a fingerful if your’e typing? Fingerful? Yeah, I kinda like it. The New Blog Look I’m ecstatic to be starting off the New Year by writing this post with my new look on the blog! Softer colors, (Thank you Tess for the new Graphic up above. She knew exactly what I wanted!) updated tabs at the very top on the menu bar (Yay!), I’ve now added categories which means future post and some of my most recent post will be easier to scroll through if you’re only looking to read about a particular topic like Breast Cancer or Camping or my WW […]

‘Tis the Season

It’s 5:00 am on Sunday the 22nd and I’m so excited I can’t sleep. I’m like a kid on Christmas morning…..and I don’t hate it. We are having our family Christmas today and I love knowing the house will be full and we have all sorts of fun things planned for today. I decided since I was wide awake that this was the perfect opportunity to start the coffee pot, turn on the tree lights, enjoy a fire and curl up on the couch and come in here to say hi and get caught up just a tad. December has really flown by, as has 2019. I said at the beginning of the year that 2019 was going to be a great year and it did not disappoint. What a full and happy year it has been. I’ll get in a recap next week (hopefully) and the blog construction should […]

Happy & Thankful

Thankful for a houseful this year as the tradition is passed on to us from my Mother in law. She has always provided us a wonderful and tasty Thanksgiving and now I’ve got some big shoes to fill. I love having a houseful of family and friends and Thursday completely filled my heart. With both of our parents, 4 children all married, 8 grandchildren (and another one on the way!💕) and several lovely extended family members, the house was full of love and belly’s were full of yummy food. I hope that you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving! I have very little experience cooking turkeys. I had decided that two 15 pounders would feed our crowd of 29 and that I would try two different methods of cooking them. My mother in law has always cooked the turkey the day before Thanksgiving so she can carve it, clean up […]

The Fam

Such a great weekend! Tess and Manuel came in from Dallas on Wednesday night for a long weekend. They spend every other Thanksgiving with us and this is the year they will spend with his family, so we enjoyed a nice long weekend together. They are hosting their first Thanksgiving this year as husband and wife in their new house, so I’m super excited for them! They made mashed potatoes for our whole family this weekend as a practice run. They were perfectly mashed and apparently it takes two to peel 10 pounds of potatoes! My birthday was Friday and the whole day was just perfect. My morning started with Mike bringing me coffee in bed, which he has started doing fairly regularly lately and I gotta say, I absolutely love it! What a great way to start the day, basically someone telling you how much you are loved by […]

Finding Balance

October has been full of Pumpkin, projects and prioritizing. I am learning how important it is to make time to do the things that make me feel my best. It’s taken me a long time to figure out how to do that, and I’m still trying to figure out the balance of it all, but I’m also learning to be patient while I figure it all out. I think it can be easy to put ourselves at the bottom of the priority list while taking care of others and making sure we are taking care of our responsibilities, but I know that when I am able to put myself at the top of the priority list, I become my best self, and it becomes easier to take care of my family and my responsibilities. So that’s what I’ve really been working hard at. Me. Feeling okay with where I’m at and realizing all of the benefits of making myself […]

Catching Up on Summer

I hope you all are having a Happy and Healthy summer and that you are staying cool. I’m so ready for Fall. It’s my favorite season. All things Fall really can not some soon enough for me.  Here are a few highlights of whats going on in life right now. The Blog I have wanted to update the look of the blog for sometime now. I finally met with a Blog Consultant? Thats what I’ll call her anyhow. She does free lance work outside of her regular job making websites and blogs look their best. I have a few ideas and together we will come up with a new look. Also, I’m hoping that will encourage me to come up with a regular blogging schedule. I’ll never have time to do a daily post like I did for so many years, but committing to once a week is something I’d like […]