Musings

Counting My Mother’s Day Blessings as a Stepmom

As a stepmother, I can say without hesitation that I feel blessed. I am happy, love my life and wouldn’t change anything with my relationships with my husband, stepchildren and grandkids.

But I have to say, I’ve learned to grow into this role and find my place. And I know as much as I had to figure this out, my stepdaughters did too. Especially in the early years. It’s not our fault. It’s just how it how goes. Through mutual respect, love and our commitment to each other, we’ve found our way, and it works.

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Checking Off My ‘Fun List’ on Family Trip to St. Maarten

Vacations have a way to provide perspective about your life and how you spend your time. My recent getaway on the island of St. Maarten/St. Martin gave me the pleasure to check off to-dos under my 2022 goals. Most significantly, I consider myself fortunate to cross off items under the Pure Joy/Fun and Adventure/Travel categories in my Commit30 planner. Allow me to elaborate briefly on three goals in this pictorial post.

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March into Spring Goals: Connect with Nature and Purge

The onset of spring totally defines spiritual health in my eyes because it gets me outdoors to connect with nature. I have already taken advantage of some unseasonably warm March days to walk outside, a happy change from the treadmill. I’m very fortunate that I can take in the beauty of a walk along a wooded path with lake views right from my doorstep. Spring is also a time to refresh, which means activating my home goal: To begin the process to deeply purge and get better organized.

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Time to Eat Real Food; Get Moving; Embrace Smoothies

Hello, February! It’s a new month and time to tackle another goal that I’m tracking through journaling with my Commit30 planner. This month my focus is on physical health. Of course, my plan was to kick that off in January, but that wasn’t in the cards with COVID-19 making a cameo appearance in my life. The upside of that is while I was in isolation for the days around the new year, I focused on setting up this blog and met my January goal.

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2022 Is Here: New Goals, New Blog

Like many of us, my new year resolutions usually go by the wayside by Valentine’s Day. This is the year, I vowed to myself, that I would be more accountable to my goals. The first step was finding the right journal for me; and after researching the many options in the market now, I opted for a Commit30 planner. So, during the week between Christmas and the new year, I plotted out my annual goals. Sounds easy, right? Not really.

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