Category: Life
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big feelings
Do you ever feel like you FINALLY got to where you were meant to be, only for life to throw you a curveball that alters your path? That’s how I feel right now. I already had this incredible passion. Volleyball. But when I began coaching that passion quickly turned into a calling. My coaching journey…
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grandmas
grandmas. the women who shaped me. I’m a smidge at a loss of how to put into words all that my grandmas mean to me. To be honest simply typing those three sentences above was enough to put tears in my eyes. I’ll start with this, the one thing that scared me about moving to…
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a moment for me
a great weekend with a tough ending. how can i be loving my life, but still fighting back tears every night? how can i be the happiest i’ve ever been, but still feel like i’m drowning? the answer feels simple. because I’m me. that feels like a dark sentence, but i think i’ve found the…
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it’s all i’ve ever wanted
After a long day in the car we arrived home and off he went to the fields to pick up hay bales. I sped off to the grocery store to get stuff for dinner. We knew it was going to be a late dinner so we decided on breakfast for dinner, easy enough. I returned…
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a moment of complete happiness
Do you ever just find yourself in a moment of complete happiness? It feels as if you’ve left your body and you are looking at yourself from above in awe. Completely content. Truly in the present. I found myself in that very spot tonight. Twice. The first at dinner. Two and a half hours sitting…
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my support system
My coworker picked me up for work, opened the door for me and everything. My partner teacher braided my hair during our prep. My secretary offered to do my hair tomorrow. My partner teacher gave me a ride home. My coworker helped hook me up to my ice machine during lunch. My aide wrote tomorrow’s…
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asking for help
I don’t like asking for help. It’s not a strong suit of mine. I like people to think I can do it all. That I have it all together. But honestly, who does? While I’m still not great at asking for help, I’d like to think I’m getting better. I think there is strength in…
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ponytail giggles
I sat straddling the toilet backwards trying to give step by step instructions to my little brother as he put my hair into a ponytail. He struggled to hold the brush and my hair, pieces falling out of his hands every time he brushed through it. Giggles ensued. He finally abandoned the brush and said…
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step back and relax
I always forget how much of a “do-er” I am until I’m forced to stop “doing.” I’m the queen of stretching myself thin, overbooking my schedule, and taking no time for myself. Well now I’ve been forced into taking that time to myself. Shoulder surgery last week has me in a big contraption of a…
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alone
I continue to realize one thing over and over again throughout my life… man, I hate being alone. Don’t get me wrong, I love having my own space, being able to do whatever I want, whenever I want in my apartment, but there’s something about being alone for an extended period of time that I…
trust yourself 