• Simple Living

    How I Decreased my Screen Time as a Mom

    Does anyone else feel as an adult, and especially as a mother, that there is always something calling for you and your time almost 24/7? Like time is something that is sneaking away and we are left to constantly wonder about if we used it well enough, or wish we had used it for something else? Does it feel like there is something constantly trying to distract us, wear us out, and steal our time? In this time of the world’s history, we have things constantly vying for our attention, taking up our brain space, and exhausting us. In fact,…

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    Permission to Feel the Tossed Salad

    Today is rainy. Not the kind of rain that has been making me freak out lately (I have a phobia of thunderstorms and tornadoes…), but the kind that makes me want to open a window, curl up in a window seat with a cup of something cozy to drink and a good book or a journal. Thankfully my husband is off of work today due to a holiday, and we are meeting up with family for dinner and looking at old family photos, and it’s just a kind of “take it as it goes” kind of day, where I don’t…

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    Hello world!

    I am Miriam, and as you can get from my “About Us” page, I have wanted to start a blog for many, many years. This is my first post! So exciting. I hope to be able to inspire, validate, express, create… Hope you’ll stick around for this journey and experience. One of my favorite quotes of all time is by Babe Ruth: “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” So I am giving this a shot. I want to inspire you to live your best life, while discovering how to do so myself. My life won’t and…