Duvet2Desk by TPG

During the valleys, what rejuvenates you? Looking back on my pregnancy I found that I was not as "happy" as I normally am. Now, this is no way means that I am "depressed," but it is more of a fatigue, a "blah" and "ick" feeling. I was exhausted. This was probably due to some professional pressure I was feeling, along with what felt like the longest pregnancy ever. Coupled with some huge changes coming in my life that impact my family, both professionally and personally. The moral of the story is - I just did not feel like myself. So when that starts to happen, I have to find my roots and rejuvenate myself. (Much easier said than done...) I have to consciously think about what is it that brings me joy and gets me going every day. What is it that I enjoy, in my heart, doing on a day to day basis. The simple things in life.  Motivators: Seeing my daughter be successful Talking to my husband Watching people around me grow Writing and

Again, thank you! Thank you for the fun and ever evolving 3 years that I have been writing this blog. This blog has molded and shifted to become a place where I have expressed my life on paper and how it has influenced me as a mother, wife and business professional. I hope that in the future, I can give back a little bit of the clarity that you have given me. Thank you for your support and continued reading! TPG

We are all guilty of it, we are all guilty of giving someone the ability to control our thoughts and our feelings, in a very counter productive way. Giving up our  God given level of influence over the circumstance and the course of our lives,  sometimes in the immediate future and sometimes for the long term. We do this in the workplace, through unproductive conflict and toxic working relationships, and in our personal lives. We allow people who should not have control over our emotions and thoughts to gain that control and manipulate us into a bad circumstance.    I was recently listening to Christina Aguilera’s “Fighter” and the below hook of the song stood out to me: "How could this man I thought I knew,  Turn out to be unjust so cruel,  Could only see the good in you,  Pretended not to see the truth,  You tried to hide your lies, disguise yourself,  Through living in denial,  But in the end you'll see,  You-won’t-stop-me" What we should always guard against is a

Yes, it is true, I have been rather MIA. I had a long pregnancy and the last few weeks had some serious writers block, but I do have a couple of pending post that I cannot wait to finish. But back to baby, it has been exactly 2 weeks since the birth of our sweet little Charley Lin. My first post after pregnancy is all about her and her interactions in this huge new world she will discovered. Daddy is so in love... Our little sweetheart was born February 17, one day after her big sister's 6th birthday . (Can we say that birthday parties will be very busy going forward!) My family was there through out the entire process, and my husband never left my side. I must say, it was such a highly emotional time, in a very good way, and I wanted to take in every single moment of joy that we experienced on her birth day. Charley's personality is very inquisitive, she is very alert and always trying to figure things out. You can often tell by the look on her face that she is real