Get nuts about your nutrition

Plan and prep tips for healthier eating

So of all of the posts I have written in the Road to Savvy series so far…this category, nutrition, is my struggle. I really have to work at being consistent with my systems and routines. I seriously LOVE the way my weeks flow when I have a healthy eating plan. However, it just takes a hiccup like leaving town or having a long tournament weekend to get thrown off. But that lovely feeling of control over my nutrition keeps me keeping on.

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The hot pursuit for motherhood mastery

Caring for an aging parent, Happy Days, Mental Growth & Hobbies, Support System

I’m feeling nostalgic…or maybe just hormonal. As Mother’s Day approaches, I find myself reflecting on the mothers in my family tree and my surrounding motherhood forest of friends and how they all contribute to the mom I am and aspire to be.

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Commit to be fit

Creating ME Time, Fitness

The Road to Savvy #3: Tips and systems to help you squeeze physical activity in your busy day

In the Road to Savvy #1 you setup or updated your family calendar and hopefully scheduled in your recurring appointments for your fitness. In Road to Savvy #2, you learned how to be a goal digger and defined some specific personal health goals.

Lace up those sneakers! Now it’s time to take action!

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Be a GOAL DIGGER!

Creating ME Time, Fitness, Mental Growth & Hobbies

The entire Road to Savvy series is about making time for yourself and then using your ME time wisely. In the first installment of the Road to Savvy series, I offered some time management tips that work for me. If you missed this post, check it out here. Now we need to hone into where you want this ME time to be spent, but first you need to pause and make a plan.

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Who knew I would marry my prom date!?!

Happy Days, Mental Growth & Hobbies, Support System

19 lessons learned in our 19 years of marriage

You may have missed this random fact that I have shared on my About page: I married my 1989 prom date. By choice – not necessity. Jason and I started dating in my senior year of high school, he was a junior.

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Turns out there just might be enough hours in the day

Creating ME Time, Support System

Four Tried and True Time Management Techniques

I have a type A personality and have finally accepted that I can’t change my type. I love to organize just about anything and I’m constantly looking for ways to improve a process. In fact, many of these skills comprise what I do for a living as an IT Product Manager. I get excited in the Container Store and I love to help my friends and family purge a purse and organize a closet. Remember the show, Clean Sweep? Loved it! Years ago I took a Franklin Covey time management class and it was right up my alley. If organization was a language, I’d consider myself fluent.

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Work Hard to be Dispensable!

Creating ME Time, Support System

No, this isn’t a typo. I don’t mean indispensable. I truly mean dispensable and here’s why.

If you are indispensable then you are a roadblock in your own life. Everyone is counting on you to help them, they essentially can’t survive without you, or at least think they can’t. No one else can do it the way you do, right?

I’m like you…often feeling squeezed among layers of responsibilities and usually pressed for time. I have felt like I can’t focus attention on any one thing well since I’m just doing a quick once over on many competing items. Life can look like a nest of hungry baby robins depending on mama to be fed. You want to help everyone but you are just one person and there are only so many worms.

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To be or not to be an anonymous blogger – that was the question

Caring for an aging parent, Mental Growth & Hobbies, Support System

Blogging Anonymously

When I first started my Savvy Sandwicher blog earlier this year, I was afraid to announce that I was the author. I primarily wanted to stay behind the curtain because I wanted to feel complete freedom of speech which meant writing without offending anyone. I really dislike confrontation.

I lasted about a month before coming out.

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What’s better than foreplay? Choreplay!

Creating ME Time, Support System

Staying sane in this busy life and working to enjoy the journey is something I couldn’t do without the help of my husband, Jason. Like many of you, we often divide and conquer with the kid’s activities, homework, appointments, household responsibilities, etc. Some weeks I’m crazed and he picks up the slack and vice versa. We strive for a family rhythm but stuff happens from week to week and we have to adjust

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Who’s got the time to be a helicopter mom?

Creating ME Time, Support System

You see those helicopter parents hovering over their kids everywhere basically never letting their kids experience failure and helping them each step of the way. I know these moms and dads think are doing a good thing but frankly I feel like it is a disservice to their child. God forbid, what if one of these helicopter parents has a crash crisis landing? What will happen to these children that have no clue how to fend for themselves?

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