Slices of Life

Today is the 22nd and that means it's time to reflect on my WOTY: Step with the one word community at Lisa's notes.  I think I've been doing pretty well with it these past two months! I've been counting steps each day with my activity tracker and have written them down on my sentence a day post.  Sadly I had to cut back dramatically on my actual steps and my goals for the past few months as I managed to injure my foot at the end of May/ beginning of April and I've been trying to take it easier.  But I am still mindful of my steps and slowly testing out longer walks when I feel able.  April's Progress May's-- more days are filling in with dark green! I've been planning on taking a step back from the blog this summer; something I have never done before!  But I mapped out just a handful of posts planning on only posting on Tuesdays and Thursdays (other than my Not Just A Mom commitment on the second Monday of the month).  I'm not sure I will be able...

Tomorrow is the 22nd and that means it's time to reflect on my WOTY: Step.  I think I've been doing pretty well with it so far. I mean, I haven't forgotten it yet! I've had to step in and act as Ian's teacher again; a role I thought I had left behind.  He has been taking a fully online course in economics where a teacher posts work once a week with all the assignments but there is no actual interaction with said teacher.  Only problem is that the book being used has a math/graph/ chart component to each unit using terms, a program, and skills that are never ever taught.  I've been sitting with him and we've used resources like Khan academy to teach ourselves all those missing components.   I have been trying to break driving down into small step by step pieces in order to teach Alec to drive. In teaching him to drive I am amazed by how much I do without thinking about and I feel like I am at a loss when he asks me questions and I feel unable to answer wel...

 I almost thought I was going to spend my year without a word as nothing was coming to me.  A few times I had a word that I thought would work but I wanted something that really grabbed me... then I was sitting at my computer one day and it just came to me.  STEP.  I love that it has so many meanings and ways it can apply to my life and my year.  Step:  an act or movement of putting one leg in front of the other in walking or running OR  a measure or action, especially one of a series taken in order to deal with or achieve a particular thing OR  a stage in a gradual process. I already have quite a few ideas for how and where I can apply this word to my life this year. I want to focus on my steps and get walking/ moving even more than I currently do.   As my boys are getting older I have had to concentrating on side stepping-- moving from a more direct parenting role to  walking along side them as they move out into the adult ...

 Rather than my typical sentence a day posts I've been writing for the past few years, this year I thought I'd focus my sentence of the day posts on my word of the year "Embrace." So each day I tried to log something I was grateful for, ways I embraced life, and the small joys of daily living.   1. Even though it was cold, I agreed to go on a Ranger ride with my husband through the woods and we had a good time; I might not have been all in when we bought our new toy but I can't deny we really have had a lot of fun and gotten so much use out of it. I embraced the adventure.  2.  So thankful for a day date to Red Robin with my husband even if I did have to spend part of my morning at Best Buy and my afternoon at the grocery store.  I embraced our time alone.  3.  Grateful for such a productive day organizing our bathroom closet, my nail polish bottles, and getting lots of blogging done.  I embraced my chores. 4. Alec unexpectedly had a huge chu...