How I got Stronger this week: Oh man. I’ve been working hard at beating my jet lag or at least trying to seriously get my life going. I have gone right back to exercising and trying to take care of my health. I also spent some time thinking about my goals for the second half of this year. I jumped right back into work and have had a productive week. I’m grateful.
Top Goals Review: all this is moot since it’s been two weeks.
I celebrate: I celebrate our awesome vacation. how lucky are we?
I am grateful for: my life.
Karen’s Points: I did Body pump Wednesday and HIIT on Thursday. I also started Couch 2 5K and did it on Wednesday and Friday. I’m very sore. I’ve started doing Whole30 again too just to reset a bit.
A Change I embraced: all the travel was quite the change.
I let go of: quickly catching up and fighting jetlag.
Core Desired Feelings Check-in:
- Fresh: a lot of fresh new life in my travels.
- Magical: seeing Barcelona was magical for me.
- Lighter: much lighter now that we took some wonderful time away and we have some quiet time without travel ahead.
- True: truth is i am working on becoming a better version of myself.
Where I chose Joy: most of our vacation was pure joy.
I showed up for: my job this week in honor of trying to catch up quickly.
A Mistake I made this week: overstressing.
What I tolerated this week: jet lag + soreness.
My mood this week was: tired.
I forgive myself for: not being where i wish i were, it will take time but i’ll get there.
What I love right now: being back home.
Weekly Reflection is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
This week is full of leftover photos since we were in Europe this week and I had so many leftover ones from the previous weeks.
Some are still from Boston and from our flight.
and others are from work and our adventures around home.
Moments from this Week 2018 is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
Our photos from Boston.
this looks repetitive to anyone else but…
it might be my favorite layout in the whole book.
Moments from this Week 2018 is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
This week is our first week of summer. Puzzles, bagels, reading in bed, exercise, and flowers.
i am so grateful for the sunshine.
and for the work gym and for laughter and traveling with my boys.
Moments from this Week 2018 is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
     
Even though I was traveling, I ended up reading a lot less than I anticipated this week, mostly due to seeing a lot of family. But I did manage a few good books I’m glad I read.
I follow Megan on Instagram so I was excited to read Body Positive Power and it didn’t disappoint. I need to read this many more times before I can really digest the content and internalize it.
Every Other Weekend was a quick read that i enjoyed.
The Ever After was not worth my time. It’s a fine book for those who like books like this but, for me, it wasn’t really worthwhile.
Wait, What? was fantastic. I had no idea what it was, so no idea what to expect. I loved it.
There There was also fantastic. Interesting, worthwhile read. I really enjoyed it.
The Word Is Murder was also really fun. I have not actually read any of horowitz’ novels despite wanting to many times, so I am so glad I finally read one and also super glad I loved it.
Books I Read this Week 2018 is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
Last weekend, we got to visit Boston to celebrate my husband’s family reunion. There were 50+ people there which was magnificent.
The kids got to play outside all day and did all sorts of things from playing on slides, to water slides, to making tie dye and many more opportunities to run around and explore.
It was really wonderful to see everyone together.
I was extra lucky because my nephews were both there, too.
So we took photos with the 4 cousins since it’s not often they are in the same location.
There was much laughter. Many long and lovely conversations. A lot of relaxation. An incredible talent show and so so much else. I am so grateful for family.
Stories from 2018 is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018here.
Weekly Intention: This week is all about being present. I get to do such a wide range of things in this one week that I can’t even organize them here. By the end of this week, I will have worked a bunch of days, flown across the world, driven across Italy, and gotten to hug my sister, my parents, and even moved on to France. All this within a 7 day period. Here’s to hoping all of it works out as planned, or close enough to make us be happy. So here’s the deal: I am quite stressed about all this. There are a lot of logistical issues with our trip and there’s a high likelihood something somewhere will go wrong. So my intention this week is to keep an open mind, be patient, be calm, and go with the flow. Enjoy every moment. Have faith.
This month’s intention is: A Stronger You: This month involves travel. Kids at home. Lots of chaos and also wonderful. It will challenge you and you will use the time to get stronger. You will also focus on yourself as needed. Take walks. Self care. I made a decision to focus on my core this month, so I will be doing push ups and planks while I am away. Easy and works if I can stick to it.
One way I will stretch this week: oh this week will stretch me 🙂
One boundary I will set this week: i will take the time i need for myself and take it slow everywhere.
This week, I will focus on pleasing: my family. i love them so.
One new thing I will learn this week: maybe a little more italian practice if i am lucky
One area where I will go deeper this week: i think i will spend some time thinking about how i want to document this vacation
What do I need to sit with this week? how to be ok with all the chaos we will have. how to sit with every moment.
I am looking forward to: vacation, seeing my family
This week’s challenges: a lot of travel
Top Goals:
- Work: get my manager all set, do allyship email, close loops
- Personal: exercise, good nutrition, selfcare, sleep, pack
- Family: be kind, be patient, pack
I will focus on my values:
- Love: love for all my people, may i be able to show up with all my grace
- Learn: how to be more patient this week
- Peace: peace with whatever will happen, faith that it will be ok.
- Service: to family
- Gratitude: for all the people who love me so much and have been patient with me
This week, I want to remember: that it’s magical to get to do this and i will be so so glad we did it!
Stronger Than Before is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
How I got Stronger this week: I started this week in Boston as our trip didn’t end until Monday night. I was very tired and jet lagged but I still showed up at the gym three times this week and worked pretty hard. I also did my best to really show up for my family. We had a serious delay on our flight on Monday so I was able to successfully change it to an earlier flight and get us home a bit earlier. I also got a bunch of work done as soon as I was back. Net net, I did the best I could this week.
Top Goals Review: I got the doc written but the allyship email is not done, tied a lot of loose ends. exercised. ate so so, did some self care and sleep was also so so. i did hug the kids and jake A LOT.
I celebrate: I celebrate extended family time. it was wonderful.
I am grateful for: my husband. my sister. everyone at work who’s been so kind to me this week. there’s so much kindness around me.
Karen’s Points: I did Body pump both Wednesday and Friday this week and did HIIT on Thursday. I was sore all week. With all the travel, my food was so so but I can’t say that it was terrible.
A Change I embraced: being gone all weekend and changing flights, there was lots of change to embrace this week.
I let go of: having much alone time :).
Core Desired Feelings Check-in:
- Fresh: a lot of fresh new conversations with jake’s relatives
- Magical: seeing all the kids together was truly magical
- Lighter: a tiny bit lighter now that one trip is behind us.
- True: truth is that it was actually quite lovely if i can get out of my head. i wish i could.
Where I chose Joy: being with my nephews was pure pure joy!
I showed up for: jake, i wanted to do this for him and i managed to make it happen.
A Mistake I made this week: many many mistakes throughout the weekend but all in my head thankfully.
What I tolerated this week: a lot lot lot lot of socializing
My mood this week was: tired.
I forgive myself for: whatever i am experiencing right now. i am going to get better. it will be ok.
What I love right now: vacation!
Weekly Reflection is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
This week is mostly a collection of ordinary moments really. 
making puzzles, taking classes in the gym, and the summit of course.
working on OLW, my friend visiting, and the last day of school!
Moments from this Week 2018 is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
   
Not a lot this week.
Mem was really really different. I am not sure if I liked it but I also didn’t dislike it.
Getting Back to Happy was great. If you read their blog, you won’t be surprised by much of the content.
The Glitch was fun and a fast read. A bit weird but it didn’t bother me, I enjoyed reading it.
Us Against You is the sequel to Beartown which i loved. I am a bit more distracted this time around but I still love love love these books. His writing is so simple and yet so profound. I love it.
Books I Read this Week 2018 is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
In Nathaniel’s 3rd grade class, each kid got to pick a passion project to work on during April and May. Nathaniel decided he wanted to do his on Search Engines. He researched the history of search engines, found stats on which ones are most popular where and then we dug up the code we’d written in the udacity class we took a few years ago so he could read through and comment the whole thing.
he also interviewed one of the creators of the very first search engine: Excite! Then he put his poster together where the middle looks like search engine results.
And finally he had to present it at school.All in all, he learned a lot about search engines and a bunch about coding. It was wonderful to see how into it he was the whole time.
Stories from 2018 is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018here.
Weekly Intention: Now that our Boston adventure is done, we have to prepare for Europe. For me this week is about getting enough work done at work to ensure my manager, and team, are all set and that I am not leaving anything unfinished. And seeing if I can do a bit of a mental reset as well. I’d really prefer to go on our vacation with a better mental outlook but we’ll see if that’s feasible.
This month’s intention is: A Stronger You: This month involves travel. Kids at home. Lots of chaos and also wonderful. It will challenge you and you will use the time to get stronger. You will also focus on yourself as needed. Take walks. Self care. Still no plans for the holiday, maybe it will just be taking a lot of walks.
One way I will stretch this week: just juggling everything and getting mentally ready will do the trick
One boundary I will set this week: i will make sure to spend some time journaling this week to see if I can get myself more ready for this wonderful trip.
This week, I will focus on pleasing: work and me.
One new thing I will learn this week: i haven’t been doing any language work so maybe that or maybe just nothing this week.
One area where I will go deeper this week: my thoughts and feelings this week
What do I need to sit with this week? where i am and how I can help myself out of there.
I am looking forward to: one lovely week at home.
This week’s challenges: just a lot of work
Top Goals:
- Work: get strategy doc written. allyship email done, tie loose ends
- Personal: exercise, good nutrition, selfcare, sleep
- Family: hug kids and jake all the time
I will focus on my values:
- Love: love for myself this week i didn’t do much last week
- Learn: in the spirit of new classes, i will try to see if i can get to work a bit early and use some of the machines.
- Peace: peace with whatever’s going on
- Service: to work this week since i will be out
- Gratitude: for my incredible life that is so much more than i could have imagined
This week, I want to remember: that life is actually good in all the ways that matter.
Stronger Than Before is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
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