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The single best thing for my mental health lately has been to do nothing. Yes. You read that right. Every day I have been taking breaks throughout the day where I do absolutely nothing. At first ...

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I ultimately ended up cancelling my Better Health membership. It was overall a good experience, but the more I thought about it I realized that I wasn’t really going to use it enough to justify i...

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A couple of you told me to report back on how online counseling is going because you might be interested. So here goes: The way Better Help is you have a tab called “Session” where you and your ...

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For the past several weeks I started noticing I just wasn’t coping well. I was drinking alcohol every night to numb the anxiety and constant voice saying I’m not doing enough. Nathan was out of t...

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—The biggest news is—I’m going to be an aunt! My brothers wife is due in September. I’m so excited. She’s been really really sick. I hope it goes away for her and she doesn’t end up having hyperm...

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Towards the end of 2018 I read the happiness project by Gretchen Rubin. I found it very inspiring and set out to do something similar. In case you’ve never heard of it the basic construct is that...

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After initially letting myself eat all the foods at the holidays I got back with it started calorie counting and exercising a lot. I was miserable to be honest. And always am any time I restrict ...

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It’s been 3 months since I updated. I have started a new entry here so many times but keep getting distracted. —The biggest change is my in laws moved back! My father in law got a job at a local...

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I meant to have this entry done on my birthday (yesterday) but that didn’t happen. But hey! I’m 32! And I feel like it’s going to be the best year yet. MENTAL HEALTH I woke up a couple days ago ...

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I looked back at my last update and I realized not too much has changed. Nathan and I are still doing well and officially official on the “no more kids” front. (Aka his sperm count is 0) The kids...

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My sweet, sassy, but very sensitive almost 2 year old has a habit I think we all should adopt. Anytime anyone sneezes, coughs, or falls down and gets hurt she will go up to that person and ask: “...

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Marriage: Things are good! Nathan got a vasectomy a few weeks ago. In some ways it was a hard choice. I once read that you shouldn’t worry about the pregnancy, baby and toddler phase when plannin...

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Another weekend gone by in a blur. I feel like it just started. I do really like weekends but I like Mondays too. A new start. A mini refresh button. I have a week of healthy meals planned. When ...

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I’ve been spending the last few days reading through all of my Open Diary entries. As I read I could almost hear the music I used to listen to. Taste the Dr Pepper (glad I kicked that habit). Fee...

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I took this challenge put up by Gretchen Rubin in the Happier podcast to make list of 18 things to accomplish in 2018. It’s a mix of easy things and difficult things. Clearly defined things and m...

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It’s been 2 months since I updated and it has FLOWN by. I guess it’s true what they say about time flying when you’re having fun. Life has been so deliciously sweet lately. We enjoyed time with a...

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Two Novembers ago we found out I was pregnant with Alex. Last November Nathan started the job he has now. This November (the 1st) he is starting his new job. Things are so good right now for us....

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This guy Nathan used to work with got a new job a few months ago with a different IT company. He saw that they had a job opening and he recommended Nathan. They had Nathan send in his resume. He ...

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It has been a rough week and it’s only Wednesday. Leah came down with pink eye the end of last week. I mistakenly thought it would go away on its own but that was not the case. It spread to the o...

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There’s so much to catch up. I’m going to do it person by person again to make it easier. Alex– She turned 1 in July. She’s been really consistently sleeping the night (praise the Lord) for a fe...

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We road tripped to my brother’s wedding this weekend. (Which was wonderful!) On the way back we stopped at a store and Nathan sent me inside so I could get him some medicine. I was checking out w...

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I have started i don’t know how many entries and just not had the time to finish them. So to make a long story short here’s my life in bullet points: *I started taking anti-anxiety/depression med...

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Small updates from different areas of my life. And go: PARENTHOOD: There was a point a couple months ago where I was losing my temper with Leah way too often. I looked up techniques and advice on...

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I had an entire entry written out and somehow it got deleted. :( Here’s the basics for how everyone in my little family is doing Alex: She has been sleeping through the night more consistently t...

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The idea had been tossed around but now it looks like we are for sure moving into a house owned by my in laws. They moved back in the summer to a different town and were unable to sell it. They a...

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