Sips, Snacks, and Healthy Hacks-A Nurse’s Blog
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I am sitting here trying to think of all the advice I’ve gotten over the years… and for some reason I can’t remember much of it. But something that my grandfather always impressed upon me was to stay in school. This might not seem like a big deal to some, but he was born to…
The Best Advice I Ever Got
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As I was writing this, I have to say that I feel pretty grateful that I have so many things that I can even put on this list. Eleven things that give me energy: coffee prayer and meditation my kids writing family and friends time outside music doodling jogging and walking reading helping others I’m…
Eleven Things That Are Giving Me Energy This Week
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It’s been 50 years. Fifty years since it came out- Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. I was toddling about the year it came out. But my parents were big music fans, and I grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Moody Blues…my mom would throw in some…
My All-Time Favorite Album: Wish You Were Here
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I’ve got a slight obsession with stickers. When I was little, we used to go to the “big”mall 45 minutes away. One of the stores had roll after roll of stickers along the wall. We’d tear off individual stickers we wanted to buy, including our favorites- the scratch and sniff stickers. My sisters and I…
A topic I’d like to learn more about- stickers!
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I can’t remember exactly when music became so important to me. It’s like breathing. It’s just such a huge part of my life. I love heavy metal, and that’s my go-to. I’m the mom that would pull up the family SUV with death metal blaring. But I also love classical music, pop, classic rock, a…
A Lifelong Love- Music
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I’ve been to a lot of holiday celebrations in my days, but some of my favorite holidays have been the ones where I didn’t celebrate. I’m thinking of those holidays where I got off the hook because of working, either in the pharmacy or the hospital. Or holidays where my kids spent half the day…
Remembering (not celebrating) the holidays
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There have been so many…. where to start? I used to cook and bake a LOT. I’ve tried making everything from home-made pierogies and crackers to multi-layer cakes with homemade icings. But mostly, I like to reminisce about all of the dinner disasters that I subjected my ex-husband to when I was a stay-at-home mom.…
Epic dinner fails
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I don’t know that there’s any life lessons I wish I had learned earlier. Everything that I’ve gone through has made me who I am today! But something that I dear friend told me that I wish I had heard earlier is to follow your yesses. Because that is so important, especially when it’s easy…
Life Lessons
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I love pizza. At my old house, my ex and I built this enormous wood-fired pizza oven. I probably weighed like 20 pounds more than I do now because every weekend- literally every weekend- we would spend a day cranking out pizzas and eating them and sharing them with whoever was around- family, friends, neighbors…
My Favorite Food-Pizza
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I love to walk… and run, although this year has not been a great running year. (Also by run I mean jog. Or very very fast walk lol). Walking and jogging are how I get my daily exercise. It’s how I clear my head. I love getting 10,000+ steps, although my Fitbit is out of…
Walking
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