What a special summer! My 12-year-old twin nieces, ‘the bubbies’ came to visit! It was a little surreal to have them actually in my home, instead of vice versa. I loved it. We had a candy store trip; slumber party, Chick-Fil-A, river float, exploration, and my favorite thing the car ride chats. The bubbies live …
Good News
I know better… But still, I chose to disregard the little voice inside saying “Slow down Jackie”. To be fair, this little voice says this a lot, so it is easy to ignore. I had just logged off work. I was about to retreat upstairs when I walked passed my messy kitchen. I knew …
Mirror, Mirror
In life I have learned you have to control your controllables. When it comes to working a job I don’t love, I have had to learn this lesson the hard way. All I can control, day in and day out, is my own attitude. I am certainly not going to change billion dollar company, no …
Good Enough
Do you ever say, “That’s good enough”? So much of my life is dictated by perfectionism that there has to be ‘good enough’ moments in my life or I would go crazy. Case in point, we have lived in a project house for the last decade. After all this time, I have to admit …
Safety in Numbers
This was supposed to be simple; after all I have hiked the butte countless times. In all those hikes, I had never tried the base trail. One weekend, I decided to shake up my routine. How hard can it be to walk around the base of a butte? Seems pretty obvious, right? Wrong! Four miles …
