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New Way to Do Dinner
I was so sick and tired of my family complaining about our dinners. I had to come up with a new way to do dinner!
It’s so demoralizing to spend time meal planning and meal preparing only to have everyone hate what you’ve made. We are working on training the boys to simply say, “Thank you for cooking!” when they don’t like a meal rather than saying they don’t like a meal.
But still. It’s obvious they don’t like what I cook!
Luckily, we eat out twice a week (on Friday night and Saturday nights), so I only have to worry about five meals rather than seven.
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My Fall To-Do List: Falling into Winter
One of the most potentially stressful seasons is upon us: the winter holidays. Depending on what you celebrate, you have more or fewer holidays. I personally celebrate Halloween, Thanksgiving, my husband’s birthday, Christmas, and New Year’s. Luckily, I have a lot of luck using a Fall To-Do List to keep the season more enjoyable than stressful. Here’s the list I pretty much recycle each year:
Fall To-Do List
General
- Schedule Saturday Suppers, Friendsgiving, Fondue Fun Party
- Send holiday card
- Design in Canva
- Print card
- Address and stuff envelopes
Halloween
- Send out invite for our party
- Decide on Halloween costumes
- Make costumes
- Go to a pumpkin patch
- Make caramel apples
Matt’s
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How to Get Out of My Funk
In my most recent newsletter, I shared that I had gotten into a pretty low place. After sending out a distress call to hundreds of email inboxes, I realized it’s time to figure out how to get out of my funk.
I started by doing a Wheel of Reflection exercise. Doing the exercise didn’t exactly get me out of a funk. First of all, my scores were lower than they’ve been in a good, long while. Plus, I started having existential questions about what the categories should even be!
I landed on these:
- Career/Purpose
- Family
- Friends & Fun
- Physical Space
- Personal Growth & Spirituality
- Health & Wellness
- Sleep
- Time