Be Enough Me Monday

What I Wish I Had Known at 16

May 14, 2012
What I wished I had known at 16 | Ciao Mom

Sixteen is a magical age. A tragic age. A dramatic age. This week at Just.Be.Enough. we are thinking back to the time when WE were sixteen. Thinking back to what we would tell ourselves about being enough, coping with life, and realizing that there is so much more life to be lived. You know how [...]

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Making Chicken Soup (aka Living Life)

April 9, 2012
Chicken soup is like life | Ciao Mom

Making chicken soup is not for the impatient chef.  It takes time. Depending on which recipe you use, it cooks for three hours, before chilling it over night, skimming off the fat, and eventually reheating it when the time comes. It’s ingredients are many and varied by recipe. Some recipes call for whole chickens. Others [...]

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Relaxation is…

April 2, 2012
Relaxing with the Little Things | Ciao Mom

A change of scenery can do wonders for kicking your stress level to the curb. I know this because after just one night away, for a local staycation family getaway, Rocket commented on how “relaxed” I seemed. Which of course means that I was anything BUT relaxed in recent days. Or recent weeks. Or months. [...]

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Setting {SMART} Goals

March 26, 2012
Setting-SMART-Goals | Ciao Mom

Have you ever felt like your brain had so many ideas swirling around at the same time that you were afraid it might actually explode? That is me. Today. Yesterday. For the last few weeks. I suppose it comes with the territory of being at home, “recovering.”  It is something that I cannot seem to [...]

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Be Enough Me Monday: Living with Shame

March 18, 2012
Living with Shame | Just.Be.Enough.

I have a secret. Or rather, it is not really a secret at all. Last week’s surgery took a toll on me.  Not for the reasons you might think.  Yes, waking up in the recovery area to hear newborn babies born by c-section crying with their moms who were recovering from their own surgery…that was [...]

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Four Walls, One Organ, & A Desk

March 12, 2012
From a Hysterectomy to a new office | Ciao Mom

A room.  Four walls, two windows, and a closet.  It is just a room. Except that it isn’t. These four walls that symbolized much more. When Rocket and I first started looking for a new house we thought about what we needed. What we wanted in a kitchen, how many bedrooms we would need, etc…  [...]

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Getting Fit In Sickness and Frustration

March 4, 2012
Getting Fit after being Sick | Ciao Mom

Taking control of my fitness.  Going Back to Weight Watchers. I can do it.  This will be the time.  No more broken records. I have written all these words, recently in fact.  And yet, here I am. In March.  Not fit. Not healthy.  No progress. The truth is that this time, it has not really [...]

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The New Things I Like About Me

February 27, 2012
Things I like About Me | Just.Be.Enough.

Once upon a time there was a blogger who hosted a link up…..that changed her life. That blogger is me. That link up was Things I Like About Me, last July.  A magical week where 90 women enumerated the things that they liked about themselves, creating a movement that was unlike anything I had ever [...]

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The Birth of a Business: A Modern Lemonade Stand

February 19, 2012
American Girl Doll Rebecca Rubin | Ciao Mom

This weekend, we discovered that Principessa is more than a quirky kid with a passion for art. Principessa has a future as a business woman and entrepreneur. It all started with our purchase of Rebecca Rubin, the American Girl doll earlier last month. It was on that day, that my little entrepreneur daughter was born. [...]

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No Answers

February 5, 2012
Parenting a sensitive Child | Ciao Mom

I do not have the answers. I do not know how to help. I do not know what to do. I need help. There, I said it.  Admitting that my twelve years of teaching experience, my status as a Nationally Board Certified Teacher, and my training in facilitation and coaching is USELESS to me as [...]

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