Mindy's Non-Adventures

Hello friends.  First, in exactly 4 weeks I'll be on my dream trip to France. More specifically, I'll be in Paris. I will be exuberant for the next few weeks as I countdown to this trip. We have been planning and preparing for over a year, and I am finally in the last few weeks! I've got a page in my bullet journal (glorified list book) of things to do/buy before we leave. I've been reading through endless posts on what to wear in Paris in the summer. Apparently Parisian women don't wear bright lipstick, don't spend much time on their hair, and they like to wear sundresses. So not that different from what I usually do in summer. I finished my Joan of Arc bio, and can I just say that her trial was ridiculously unfair. I was going to add a book on Normandy and D-Day, but I'm opting for a documentary instead. Next weekend, we will sit down with our friends that we're traveling with and work out our plan for things to do and see. This week I'm making a l...

Hi friends. I'm telling you straight up that this post is not for my man friends. It is about health stuff, vitamins, food, and girl troubles. Seriously, go away. Now then. one of my big goals for this year was to take my health more seriously. In the last few years I'd turned that lifestyle corner where I wasn't actively chasing kids around everywhere or picking up a toddler 500 times a day. I was still having intermittent fatigue issues, and the scale was creeping up a little more each year. My PMS symptoms were getting worse, starting earlier, and lasting longer (headaches, mood swings, anxiety that was clearly connected to pms, pain when running up the stairs-you know what I'm talking about). It was no good. If any of you have gone to the doctor for these things, you know what they say. "Oh, well, you have kids. It's normal to be tired." or "You have a lot going on in your life. You should cut back."  Why didn't I think of that?! Whic...

Happy June, everyone!  We've had a few changes going on here that have lead to weeks of adjustments, but I think we've transitioned. Basically, my husband who has workaholic tendencies quit the extra job he's been doing for the last two years. This has freed up a lot of time. Of course, we had to get used to him being around the house so much more. and he had to get used to being around more. It's been a good thing though. We have weekends again! We went to see Wonder Woman today and had a normal, do what we want kind of Saturday. Speaking of Wonder Woman, ohmygosh. I loved it. First, I love a good superhero movie anyway, but I was really caught off guard by my reaction to this particular one.  As we were in the middle of the movie, this battle scene happens with Diana (Wonder Woman if you somehow don't know that). It was incredible. And as this scene played out in front of me, I honestly got kind of emotional which is weird. I mean, it's Wonder Woman single h...