Positively Mom Street

“You may be pretty, and you may be talented, but no one will remember that if you’re mean.” - Katie Holmes In a different time and place I was a mean girl.  I certainly wasn’t the meanest of mean girls – but I was mean nonetheless.   I wasn’t particularly popular but I hung out with the same few girls and we were a bit cliquey.  One of our group traits was to exclude a girl a year.  I wish I could remember how we decided whose turn it was to be “on the out” – but I have a feeling it wasn’t really planned.  Suddenly, that girl just wasn’t cool anymore. We no longer invited her to events, asked her to sit with us at lunch and generally ignored her and talked bad about her behind her back.  At the time I didn’t think much about it or how the “outed” girl felt.  I was super tight with the ringleader and never really worried much about my stance. That is, until I wasn’t. One day – my friends no longer wanted to talk with me.  They switched out of classes we’d signed up for toge

“I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her own skin.” - Unknown Comfortable in my own skin.  It’s a bit of a weighted concept.  Literal or rhetorical – it comes down to looking into the mirror and thinking “Wow – you go girl – all that hard work has paid off.”   I’ve always been a bit of an exercise junky – so staying fit, healthy and active has been an extremely important part of my adult life.   Vanity is a powerful motivator – being able to fit into jeans that are 10 years and at least 2 babies old always makes me smile.  However, the mental effects are so much more rewarding.  I have more energy, less stress and am generally a nicer person when I get regular exercise.  I love walking into the gym – full of crab and grump – and walking out feeling like a million bucks. So, I was completely thrilled to realize I could incorporate my love of fitness into the kind year journey!  This month I’ve been able to support 2 great causes though fitness “jams”.  A “jam” se

“World Food Day is a day of action against hunger. On October 16, people around the world come together to declare their commitment to eradicate hunger in our lifetime. Because when it comes to hunger, the only acceptable number in the world is zero.” Did you know that October 16th is  World Food Day ? In honor of World Food Day and the upcoming holiday season, I’m really excited to bring the group a fun, easy, simple way to fight hunger. It began as the “15 can challenge” but since we are just a smidge behind schedule I’ve decided to dub our campaign “10 Cans of Conscious Kindness.” Essentially, you commit to buying an extra grocery item each week for 10 weeks and at the end donate the food stuffs to the charity of your choice. I love this for many reasons: Charity of your choice: This could be your elderly neighbor that you know lives on a fixed income, or a teenage mom at your church just starting out. It could be a single Mom in your neighborhood who struggles but is doi