Embrace the Chaos

I spent the last few years trying to learn and understand this life experiment called, Embrace the Chaos, where I am learning how to move forward. Although you can never be certain of anything, I have attempted to write down some core beliefs and ways I am learning to deal with uncertainty in life and [...]

The kids were driving me crazy!  I needed to get their energy expressed somehow but it was very windy and cold outside.  I just couldn’t take their whining anymore and needed some air.  So I took them for their first ever, “run” in a nearby park.  By chance, I grabbed some bread on our way out, for the deer [...]

The overthinking chatter going on inside my head is one of the biggest problems I struggle with as I learn to deal with uncertainty of life and the unpredictability of a career.  Normally, it’s fine to have a pro/con debate about choices you want to make in life but so often I’ve found the overthinking [...]

I felt like someone hit me in my stomach.  Nervous, anxious, serious all rolled up into one giant ball of anxiety strung up so tight that the lightest of words would shatter my confidence revealing my fragile self.  My palms were balmy.  My forehead felt the bead of sweat starting to crystallize. I had made [...]

My 4 year old daughter has a life threatening egg and nut allergy.  We discovered it when she was about 10 months old when we gave her a piece of egg to eat.  She broke out in a horrible rash, vomited, turned blue and passed out. I didn’t know if she was alive in the [...]