January 2024 - Getting My Act Together

January 29, 2024

Indulge in a Delicious Chili Recipe That’s Not Too Spicy!

This chili is easy to make and delicious. I have entered it into two different chili contests, and it won one and placed second in the other one. If you want an easy chili recipe that is not too spicy, this is the one for you. Your family will love it. I am including it in a printable version because sometimes it is impossible to find things again on the internet. Award Winning Chili Recipe that is Not Too Spicy Ingredients: Directions: If you want your chili to be spicier, you can replace one can of tomatoes with a can […]

January 24, 2024

What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything

Do you ever have days where you have no energy and you do not felling like doing anything in the world? I am not too proud to admit that I have seen many no-energy days where it feels almost impossible to do anything. Let me tell you, I had two hard-core, no energy at all days, last week. January was getting to me or something! All I wanted to do was wallow on my sofa, but then I felt guilty about not getting my stuff done. Sometimes I do not even know why I have no energy. Maybe it’s hormones, […]

January 17, 2024

Time for a 2024 Planning Session!

For my 2024 planning session, I sat down with my calendar, a pen, and the kids’ school calendars and roughly planned out the entire year. Have you ever tried that? It sounds simple, but I tell you. I am not sure I have ever done this before. There is something about the possibility of moving that makes you suddenly go into planning overdrive. I have had this 2024 planning session sitting in my calendar for a couple of weeks now, and I keep pushing it off. Sure, it is definitely time to plan out 2024, but when it comes to […]

January 12, 2024

10 Tips for How to Handle Waiting for Military Orders without Losing Your Mind

Here we are again. It is another potential moving year, and we are waiting for military orders. These are my least favorite kind of years as a military spouse. No matter how many times we do this, I still view it with a healthy dose of fear and trepidation. I have my reasons. We have lived all over the country. There have been orders that took forever to arrive, orders that changed at the last minute, and just plain old orders that I did not personally like. It’s always somethin’. When we were young and more carefree, this felt so […]

January 5, 2024

Top Ten Most Popular Getting My Act Together Posts of 2023

Looking over a complete year is always one of my favorite things to do in January. Do you do that? If you have a calendar or a journal where you write down notes about how you spent your time and record what happened, it is so fun to take a peek back at the year you finished. It can be surprising to see just how much happens in a whole year. So let’s take a look back at 2023 on this website, Getting My Act Together, and see what the most popular articles were. I am not including anything I […]