Reading

Here are the books on my 2019 reading list from fiction to memoirs and a plan for how I hope to meet my most ambitious reading goal ever.

With my first baby, I read everything under the sun. With my second, I narrowed the list to my top 5 books to read during pregnancy to prep for birth and those early months of parenting a newborn.

Sci-Fi, self-help, non-fiction and short stories. Seems like a pretty good start to my 2018 reading list but I’m on the hunt for more great books this year!

As the parents of boys in kindergarten and 2nd grade, it seems like we are hitting the sweet spot for reading. They have reached the point where they can enjoy books on their own or read aloud with the grown-ups. Over the past few months, we’ve amassed a few favorite books for k-2nd grade so …

Take the Summer Sleep Challenge to improve your sleep habits and be more productive. My response to The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington.

Learning how to change your habits is the holy grail of self-improvement. Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin was both frustrating and enlightening.

The following post is sponsored by FitFluential LLC on behalf of Grain brain. You might remember my post from a few weeks ago where I embarked on the Grain Brain Challenge. I can’t believe it has been four weeks already. But here I am with my thoughts and confessions. Let’s start out with a little recap. …

Today’s post is sponsored by Fitfluential LLC on behalf of Grain Brain. I decided to take on this interesting challenge because even though I am really making some fun progress with my running, my eating has gone off the rails over the summer. I can not only see it in my waistline (hello muffin top!) …

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life -in my life- is lack of thanksgiving. – Ann Voskamp I’ve heard of Ann Voskamp over the years. Really, I just knew the name. I’d even read her blog not making the connection.  I knew it as a name …

When I was a child I loved to read books. My mom has pictures of me having fallen asleep reading and in first grade, I was placed in the advanced readers circle which I was VERY proud of. I must have been if I still remember it! I really want Oscar to have the same …