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Today is the nineteenth anniversary of my motherhood. Yay me, except…I have been a mother long enough to finish one human-plus-one-year, and nothing feels finished at all. I never decided if I should pick him up or let him cry it out. Scheduled meals and naps or no? I haven’t learned to relax when the thing at hand is really just a phase. I still don’t buy dress pants before
My mother tells a story about a woman with a toddler. After any errant behavior, the young mother would take the child’s hand and say to the affected audience: “We’re working on this.” Welcome to all of us. Thanks to some podcast binging, recent reads, and the Myers-Briggs membership purchased for my professional development, I have become obsessed with identifying not just my Myers-Briggs personality (ENFP) but my Tendency, my Enneagram
This month, I changed one of my morning habits. I did it to take advantage of the latte factor, but it has another benefit. Little changes are freeing for me. I resist routine. It can make life difficult because life is full of routine. I used to find after every break from it, I had to reexamine my life. If I don’t want to return to my normal, I would