Hey friends! Let's have a momfriend coffee date - grab a warm drink and sit with me, Your Nerdy Girlfriend and Life Coach. 

Well this, is a coffee date for all friends really - mom or not. Because I want to have some lady chat about things I am trying, loving, watching and enjoying. 

Plus I have some special encouragement for you on feeling like you are behind, or you are not where you should be. 

 

 

The full episode transcript is at the end of this post. 

THE CURRENTLY LIST!

This list has a lot of fun links! Some of these links will be affiliate links through Amazon. As an amazon associate, I make a small commission from your purchase at NO cost to you. 

My current planner for this year

I was using the Pipsticks + Workman planner and really liked it (it is cute, fun, and has lots of habit tracking spots). Especially the monthly recap page in each monthly section. This year I am trying out the Happy Planner. It always takes some time to get used to a new planner. 

Watching

Back In Time For Dinner is a show we have found on the GEM app, through CBC. 

It follows a family as they spend a week living in a past decade, from the 1940s-2000. 

Reading

Educated by Tara Westover

Wearing

I am at the age where I splurge on clothes at Costco and am feeling pretty happy with my recent sock purchase. If this isn't screaming middle aged mid-class woman I don't know what else will!

Also, I'm loving the simplicity of a long sleeve black tee - it can pair with most anything. 

I have made a challenge for myself to not buy any more clothes for the winter (until spring). 

Preparing

I'm prepping an advent activity calendar. In the past, I had done this when the kids were toddlers. Here's a post of toddler advent activity ideas to make your own little advent calendar of fun things to look forward to. 

The Jesus Storybook Bible and their advent guide for reading the stories in December 

Eating

Roasted Squash with bacon (pin the recipe right here)

The cookbook for all that has some of the best gluten free baking I've ever had! Canelle et Vanille by Aran Goyoaga. Our family fave are the Buckwheat Crepes. 

Doing

I've been doing a lot of sitting - work is a sedentary activity for me. So I am challenging myself to do the the seven minute workout on Alexa (say 'Alexa, start seven minute workout'). Here is a very similar one on Youtube.  

Don't get stuck in all or nothing thinking when it comes to moving your body each day. Every little bit counts!

This week's encouragement to you 

You are never behind. You are exactly where you need to be, because that is where you are. Stop looking at all you 'could' do and turning those 'coulds' into 'shoulds' it takes away your power. 

Here is what is available to you. Opportunities, growth, connection, is available to you right here. Don't rush it or avoid it. Stay with it. 

 

 

Full episode transcript

Hey friends I'm Shawna, your nerdy girlfriend and life coach from simpleonpurpose.ca. Welcome to the podcast for the mom who wants to slow down, simplify and show up for her life on purpose.

So I've been kind of sitting on this podcast episode idea for a while to share what I call the currently list. And the currently list is that what I'm currently doing and enjoying and eating and making. It's something that I would share in the simple Saturdays newsletter from time to time. And then I just kind of sat on it, I thought, nobody's really interested in the random things I'm doing with my life.

And then I had a phone call this morning with one of my best friends who I talked to like every six months, you know, those best friends who have just been part of your life for so long, that you can just pick up every six months and run through an hour of everything. And we talked about everything we talked about our parents, period, underwear, the books, we're reading what our cats are doing, like our mom life experience.