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Finding Sanity Amidst Wedding Planning Craziness
A colleague of mine is getting married soon, and I volunteered to do something off of her to-do list in an attempt to help reduce her stress. She asked me to sew 10 gift bags for her guests.With any DIY project, the prospect of doing it seemed much easier than the reality. At the beginning of the project, I texted her and asked, “If I have leftover fabric, do you want me to make more than 10?” Thank goodness she said no. The project was so hard!She wanted the bags to be lined, which complicated the process. Also, I ran out of fabric when I was trying to… Read More -
Focus on Being, Not Doing
I know I really needed to hear something when it brings tears to my eyes. Thank you.
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Eulogy from My Son
I know that writing a eulogy for myself from the perspective of my son is a little creepy (okay, way creepy), but the exercise (thanks, Stephen Covey!) was actually really illuminating and clarifying. I enjoyed doing it at the Reflection & Rejuvenation Retreat. It helped me pat myself on the back in some areas and set goals for myself in other areas. So here it goes…——–I couldn’t have asked for a better mother. She went out of her way to make me feel so loved and so worthy of love. When I was little, she would think of far away places and say, “Do you know… Read More
