After spending some time going through Aubrey’s baby book with her a few weeks ago, and reading The Happiness Project, I was inspired to get my family photo albums up to date. (I haven’t printed pictures out since 2005, unless it was going directly into a frame.) Aubrey’s face lit up as she looked at baby pictures and heard stories about herself. She asked me this afternoon as she flipped through the album, “Momma, when you had me did Emma just stay in your tummy?” I wanted to cry. She truly didn’t remember a time without her sister. I explained [Read more...]
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Mar 282010
I started reading “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin a few nights ago. Gretchen is a Yale and Yale Law Graduate, who decided while clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, that she wanted to be a writer. This book details an experiment she performed on herself, to see what changes she could make in her life to increase her happiness level. Don’t get me wrong. Gretchen wasn’t depressed, she wasn’t facing a crisis of any kind. She was a working mother of two, and a wife who realized she wasn’t enjoying her life as much as she should. [Read more...]







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