Uh, I still haven't paid for the firewood that was delivered last week. C&M Lumber dropped three pallets of energy logs at the house last Monday. It's the same lovely gentlemen as last year. He gave me the heads up on which day he would swing by, but other than that, I had no notion of time. When he arrived he walked through the backyard, tapped on the window, and asked if I wanted them where I had them last time. Yup. Fantastic. Check that off my list! Look at those beautiful pallets of...
7 days ago • 1 min read
Last night I was doomscrolling on Instagram while my husband watched a show I couldn’t get into, and I saw an ad scroll by that made me do a double take…apparently you can now run ads on ChatGPT. Wait, what?! I had no idea (and I will admit I probably should have seen this one coming). I mean, this is kinda what I do for a living. So naturally I fell down a rabbit hole of “what else don’t I know,” and it turns out there’s a lot happening in marketing right now. Things are moving fast....
14 days ago • 3 min read
I’ve been having one of those weeks (months?) where it feels like everyone else has their shit together and I don’t. And I put on a good show. I’m organized. Things are moving. The kids are being fed. From the outside it probably looks fairly smooth. But lately everything feels harder than it needs to be, and when I look around, it seems like it’s just coming easier to everyone else. Part of that is projection, obviously. We all curate what goes out into the world. Hell, I’m a big believer in...
21 days ago • 2 min read
Every now and then I hit a point where I am just…done making decisions. Not the big ones (those are weirdly fine). It’s the little ones that get me. Which invoice to chase first. Whether that caption needs a rewrite or if my webpage needs another little tweak. What’s for dinner? And then 'What's for dinner' again and again and again. AUGHHHHHHHH And I’ve noticed something on social media lately that I’m absolutely guilty of too. We marketers love to assume you’re overwhelmed. That you don’t...
28 days ago • 2 min read
Somehow, the universe rewarded my love of organization when I had my kids. They were born exactly three years and three days apart. My son on 8/18/18. My daughter on 8/21/21. I don’t know what I did to earn that math, but it makes me stupidly happy every single August. It also means two birthdays within three days of each other (technically three if you count my husband who also has an August birthday…its a busy month!). For years we escaped the birthday parties entirely. Cupcakes and a...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
I have officially hit the point of the summer where I'm tired of summer. I feel a pretty ashamed even typing that. Summer is so short here, and most of my favorite things happen in the summer (lake days, camping, hiking, campfires, camping…you see the theme). But we have lived life to the fullest. We have maxed out and made the most of every possible minute of every possible weekend, and my brain and my body are starting to give out. The kids are stir crazy and everyone is starting to get on...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
I have been eyeballs deep in vacation planning the last few months. Where to stay, what to do, where to eat, plus all of those little contingencies and considerations to balance fun with relaxation and try to anticipate anything that could cause a travel emergency. And I am not even doing it for myself! I am building trips for the six amazing families we gave all-inclusive McCall getaways to last fall. The two winter trips are done, and now we are hosting our summer then fall trips. And I...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
This week I found myself having intense social anxiety...social media anxiety, that is. For the last few weeks I have been quietly bummed about my own Instagram account. Nothing is inherently wrong. I post consistently, I actually like what I put out there and people stop me and tell me they saw something I posted and got something out of it, which is the whole point. But then one of those dumb posts slides across my feed, someone explaining how she gained 10,000 followers in one week off a...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
A few weeks ago, a leak showed up in our laundry room ceiling. It was small and honestly, I assumed it was the outdoor spigot that's leaked for years finally making its way inside. So we called a remediation company. They did exploratory work, which in practice meant removing about half of our laundry room ceiling, and then half the bathroom ceiling next to it, chasing the water. Controlled, careful, professional. Their conclusion: it was the connection where the washing machine line meets...
2 months ago • 2 min read