by Monica Wiant | Apr 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Friday is my favorite day of the week.It’s the beginning of the weekend. It’s a day of completion and accomplishment and freedom. Friday has been a great day for as long as I can remember, but the definition of why has changed throughout my life.When...
by Monica Wiant | Apr 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
I woke up to tiny fingers gently brushing my cheeks and touching my eyelashes.”Can I watch a movie?” Felix asked in his sweet little 3-year-old voice. It was 7:15 a.m., late enough that Sam had left for work, but far too early for me to want to wake up on...
by Monica Wiant | Apr 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Today was my first “official” day of spring break. Evie has been off school for a week now, and I decided to take a few vacation days from work to enjoy the last bit of her break with her.Kids with working parents often miss out on the unstructured time...
by Monica Wiant | Apr 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Dear Pinterest Mom,You don’t know me, but I’ve been following you for a couple of years.At first, I wanted to be just like you. You had the best ideas. You taught me how to make cauliflower crust pizza and how to whiten my teeth. You showed me photos of...
by Monica Wiant | Mar 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
Sunday has never been my favorite day of the week. It’s always seemed like a fake weekend day, one filled with homework and chores and early bedtime and looming deadlines and the stress of the week ahead. My usual Sunday sentiment is harried and slightly...
by Monica Wiant | Mar 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
This morning, I attended a seminar at my gym about stress. As the presenter started listing off the health conditions caused or exacerbated by stress, I felt like she was describing my personal list of woes: Weight gain, belly fat, carb cravings, feeling tired,...
by Monica Wiant | Mar 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Have you ever been to somebody’s house, and they took out a box of random photos and started flipping through them, telling you non-sequiter stories about people you don’t know and places you’ve never been?Tonight’s blog is the digital...
by Monica Wiant | Mar 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Kid things that I can completely relate to1. Being so tired that everything is hard, nothing can make me happy, I just want to cry, but I absolutely cannot go to bed2. Having so much fun with my friends that I never want them to go home3. My Little Pony4. Why we...
by Monica Wiant | Mar 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
For the past 5 weeks, I’ve been attending a seminar entitled “Called to Life.” Along with a few women from my church, I’ve been spending two hours a week exploring the question of what God is calling me to do and be.I signed up for the class...
by Monica Wiant | Mar 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
There’s a fresh blanket of snow on the ground. Tonight’s forecast is in the single digits. I can’t take it anymore, so I’ve started a list. Here are 20 things I’d like to do while the weather is warm because, eventually, it will be....
