Savoring Monday

I woke up at 6 am and started my day with my Jesus calling devotional, my fiction book and the Mary Oliver poetry book I’m currently reading. I decided to have a productive content morning and recorded an auditory witnessing podcast, finished and posted my weekly notes blog post for the week, created and posted my weekly collage and made some blog updates. I also watched the Coachella replay of the xx performance from last night. I watched the replays from both weekends and they were phenomenal each time. I hope to see them live one day. Then we decided to have an early lunch picnic before running our errands for the day. There is this local bagel place that offers gluten free bagels and they’ve disappointed me 9/10 times but I thought I’d give them another try. It was hard as a rock and I’m not even exaggerating. It can already be daunting to have dietary restrictions and try to eat out, but when the food is inedible on top of that, it can be frustrating. Thankfully I picked up some e...

  Notes from the week:  No. 2: lifes little treats and celebrating the victories

a week of good news, glimmers and choosing the slow path monday I woke up early this morning with the anticipation of a possible walk. Last night I intentionally gathered all of my books, journals, laptop, ipad, and athleisure and set it out for my morning routine today. I was up early enough to see the sky turn from a deep indigo purple blue to a grey. Once I saw those pink clouds, it swayed me from a maybe to a yes for a morning walk. It was a short one, but totally worth it. It was in the sixties this morning and it was quite chilly with the wind. I even made it out for a second walk before the busy morning began.  This morning felt a bit chaotic with my reading routine, but there is just so much I want to prioritize. I read my devotional, some poetry by Mary Oliver, some of my fiction book, and took book notes on the Artists Way book. Maybe it would be easier to break it all up throughout the day and just do longer sessions of one thing at a time. But it also feels good to know...

  blogs from the weekend: perspective and pazookies: sunday in my life

I woke up in a panic because I knew I had slept in and church would be starting soon. I still had to make my breakfast and figure out my outfit for our family lunch afterwards. I remembered I had a bag of second hand clothes to sift through and hoped there would be something cute I could wear today. It was full of shirts which I wasn’t expecting (I didn't know what was in the bag yet) and I put aside a good amount to keep. I threw them in the washing machine and started on my eggs for breakfast. It was the easiest thing to throw together so I baked two with a sprinkle of cheese. My husband went to Dunkin and grabbed us some coffee. I got my fav: blueberry butter pecan with cream and sugar. Church this morning was all about reframing our perspective on the pressures we're currently facing in life. Some notes I wrote down include: -we are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 co...

  notes from the week: No.1:  gloomy skies & analog highs - (april 6 - 10, 2026)

Monday It's a new week! And I'm feeling really excited for it. I'm also feeling inspired to do some organizing or work on some of my bigger projects, whether home related or passion project related. I also want to get into some kind of rhythm with all of my habit goals. Some I've already gotten good at like my morning routine, but there are definitely things I want to add to it, along with creating other rhythms throughout the day. It's mostly because I have so many things I want to make time for, pairing it with a certain time frame will help me make whatever task I'm focusing on into a habit. ONE OF WHICH NEEDS TO BE READING! I cannot believe how long I've been in this reading rut. But it kind of makes sense. At the beginning of the year I was more focused on self help and educational style books and taking book notes. I was in more of a learning mood than a get lost in another world mood. But I have been craving a good fictional story. So hopefully I'...