Jen's Odds and Ends

New beginnings are exciting, stressful, chaotic, challenging, and so much more.  We plan for them to make them less stressful.  If you are like me and have a little OCD, you plan for every conceivable thing that can go wrong so that you can come up with a million different backup plans.  We did all of this as we planned our move from New Jersey to Shawnee, KS, but some things are just too crazy and horrible to be conceivable. One of my treasured friends from New Jersey our last night in town.  So many came to say goodbye to us that last week.  We still miss them all!  We thoroughly enjoyed our time in New Jersey.  We loved almost everything about it except for the cost of living and the distance from our family in Kansas.  Jared's job had taken us up there.  He took a sales job that gave us the chance to move close to family.  It took us 10 months to sell our house and another 2 to close.  For a year, Jared had been traveling in his new territory.  I was in New Jersey with a

Anyone else tired of Karens??? Can I talk to the manager?  I am!  I struggle with Karens.  I struggle with knowing how to respond to Karens.  I have spent most of my life feeling inadequate.  I have never seemed to measure up.  I think more people feel this way than are willing to admit.  Karens are a reminder of this inadequacy.  They are the mean girls that told us we weren't good enough while we were growing up and are here to remind us we still aren't.   The house with an over grown yard.  We closed on the 10th and moved in on the 27th.  Our mower didn't  arrive until several days later. Ugh! Neighborhood Karens like to tell you that your bushes need to be trimmed or that your grass is being cut 1/4" too short (sometimes the Mr. Karens have to deliver the message) or maybe you have weeds growing in the lines of your driveway.  Make peace with the Mr. Karens.  They need you!  They live with the Karens! Does this look like a person conce