• Food,  Life,  Wellness

    Go-to Daily Lunch

    What is your go-to healthy daily lunch? Eating healthy becomes more important to me the older I get. Remaining consistent is difficult to maintain each day. Surprisingly, I find it easier during the workweek to stay on track IF I keep things simple. Some may think eating the same things each day for lunch would become boring, however, I look forward to my salad each day! Maybe it is just finding something you look forward to eating?! At work, I never know where I will be for lunch. The typical workday is spent going from one meeting to the next. My favorite part of the workday is lunchtime spent with…

  • Date night dinner for two
    Food,  Relationships

    Date Night – Dinner for Two

    Are you looking for date night ideas in quarantine? Here is a date night dinner idea that your man will surely enjoy! Whether you are a single mom or married couple, date night’s seem to be few and far in between. I enjoy hearing couples who make date nights a priority in their relationship and ensure to have regular scheduled date nights. Having that time for just the two of you is so important. With being a single mom, having my kids fulltime and in a long distance relationship date nights are a rare occurrence but it makes me appreciate them more. Last Friday was the first date night we…

  • Free Printables

    Free Printable – Cleaning Schedule To Keep You on Track all Year long!

    Sundays are for sleeping in, relaxing and getting ready for the upcoming week! My typical Sunday includes comfy clothes, meal planning, grocery shopping, laundry and whatever cleaning I can get in. I was finding the deep cleaning was all pushed to Sundays. It would get cut short if I ran out of time. Ehhh which was occurring more than I’d like to admit! I wanted to spend time creating a realistic cleaning schedule to help keep up on house duties without getting overwhelmed and spending all day Sunday cleaning. Below is what I came up with. I wanted it to be “prettified” to display on the fridge. Each day I…

  • Life

    COVID-19: Life Is Different

    A couple of months ago, a new virus started in China. Since then it has ripped through the world. A couple of weeks ago the schools were shut down, the president announced a national emergency and we started practicing “social distancing”. Luckily, I have a job that allows me to work from home and I have been since the schools shut down. Monday the governor announced a lockdown on the state. We are not supposed to leave our homes unless needing food or medical. Our plants shut down starting Tuesday which has rippled into our company announcing we will have our hours reduced to 21 hours a week along with…

  • Meet Tonya

    Meet Tonya!

    Do you have a bucket list? I created one years ago, having a blog was something I have always wanted to do. So here it is! Finally checking this item off the list! I journal almost every day about things that happened throughout the day. I find it therapeutic. Why not share it with others?! My name is Tonya, I am 34-year-old single mother to two kiddos, a daughter who is 14 and a 12-year-old son. I work as a Senior Product Data Analyst for a large office furniture manufacturing company. I feel blessed to be a part of such a wonderful company for the last 6 years. I was…