Author Archives: Jessica@Team Rasler

>The first haircut

>Well, I can’t say we weren’t forewarned.  Others had told us stories of their kids screaming while having their hair cut or being afraid of the buzzer.  We postponed the event by a day or so because Sebastian was doing his best Rumplestiltskin impressions last week and we figured if he could stomp that hard,…

>Adjustments

>After doing some thinking, looking over my resolutions, and reading some helpful comments, I think I’m going to combine my categories of resolutions so that I go from 8 to 5.  Five seems manageable.  You can count them on one hand, and being able to do things with one hand is no small feat when…

>My Christmas wish list

>My dear brother asked me last month what I wanted for my birthday, and I came up with three ideas before I finally settled on what would be a reasonable one.  Why was it so hard to come up with a suggestion?  Everything I could think of that I wanted was either a) for my…

>One (small?) change

>My happiness project has stalled out a bit, and I’m trying to take another look and see what’s working and what isn’t.  Working on so many different resolutions is definitely not working.  I have a hard time just deciding on one thing to do each month.  By that logic, I thought I’d never get to…

>Taming the green-eyed monster

>This past week I’ve been thinking about another major obstacle to my happiness:  envy.  I have always struggled with that pesky last commandment about not coveting what others have.  Although I would never want to trade entire lives with someone, it wouldn’t really hurt to have a nice house like this friend or a sweet…