Hi friends! Well, last weekend marked 2016's holiday of love... and while I love any excuse to celebrate my relationship with my husband, I also like taking time around each Valentine's Day to show myself some love. Self-love is a topic I've written about probably a dozen times, and it's a subject that I like to chat about with you guys because it is so important. You can't have a truly healthy life without having a healthy, positive self-relationship. Sometimes we're all so busy running around handling our business and taking care of everyone else in our life, that we forget that we deserve to be taken care of too. We need to love ourselves first, because a healthy self-relationship forms the backbone of all of the other relationships you have in your life. The concept of ... [Read More]
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Dating Myself as an Early Birthday Treat
Hey, hey! Hope that you had a lovely weekend. My Marine was away for training all weekend and my birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, so I decided to spend some of the weekend treating myself to early birthday fun. I've talked numerous times on the blog about the idea of dating yourself. A couple of times a year I have a total "me" day, and I've made it an annual thing in recent years to do a birthday celebration day of sorts all on my own. Let's rewind it to the beginning of the weekend, shall we? After I finished working on Friday, I went for the massage I had mentioned wanting to get in this post about recent workouts. It was only half relaxing, as the other half of the time I was wincing in pain as things were crunching and getting unknotted, but it was much needed and ... [Read More]
Happy Birthday to Me
Yesterday was a special day...my birthday! I know, there has been a lot of birthday talk on my blog lately. My hubby's was last week - he's a year and 6 days older than me - my cousin shares my birthday and is 10 years younger, another cousin of mine has a birthday on Friday, my uncle's birthday is Saturday, and my sister-in-law's is next week, so my family has a lot of August babies! Between all of the calls and texts yesterday, my hubby's fun gifts, and waking up to flowers on my dresser, I definitely felt all of the birthday love from everyone in my life. Besides the tons of well-wishes, my day started off in usual fashion with a long walk with Harley and getting some work done - but later in the afternoon, I took some time to pamper myself and have a little date on my ... [Read More]
Taking Time to Date Myself Today
Earlier this week, I realized that I hadn't really pampered myself in awhile. With feet in need of some TLC and the idea of a massage in the back of my mind for months, late this afternoon I decided to kick my weekend off with a spa date. (photo credit) I think that so often, it's easy for us ladies with busy schedules to forget about treating ourselves and to put any special indulgences on the back burner (especially for all you mamas out there!). Usually on Thursdays and/or Fridays, I squeeze in a few spare hours that I don't really even have to volunteer at the Humane Society. But this week, I decided that a few hours of "me" time would take precedence over my volunteer gig. I think that once in awhile you just need to switch your priorities around and skip something else in order to ... [Read More]