“It’s not you…it’s me.”
349 days of not yelling, 16 days of loving more to go! Dear Mike T., I apologize for how I broke up with you years ago. It was just a wee bit insensitive especially given how well you treated me. When that fortune cookie read “Friendship is the greatest gift” I just felt it was […]
“No more excuses.”
346 days of not yelling, 19 days of loving more to go! Favorite Song Friday #??! Dear Orange Rhinos, This is one of my favorite workout songs. It get’s me, well going! The message is simple and totally applies to this challenge. The lyrics are below with my thoughts in parentheses enjoy and well, LET’s […]
I will not yell at you, I love you.
345 days without yelling, 20 days of loving more to go! Dear Parenting Magazine, Hold the press! Don’t run that article, I lied. My son DOES listen to me. And not only does he listen to me, but he gets it. He totally gets The Orange Rhino Challenge, he gets the not yelling thing. Oh, […]
Mom’s on Vacation!
344 days without yelling, 21 days of loving more to go! Dear Gorgeous Turquoise Blue Ocean, Where art thou? I should be sitting by you RIGHT NOW! Did you not see my smoke signals tonight telling you to inform your private all-inclusive resort to send the private jet to come take me away? Did you […]
Help a mother out…
343 days without yelling, 22 days of loving more to go! Dear sesame seed bagel, I think I blame you for my near catastrophic yell last week. But I also thank you for reminding me about how important it is to help a mother out, any mother out. Cheers, The Orange Rhino * It was […]
Love beats Fear
342 days of not yelling, 23 days of loving more to go Dear Orange Rhinos, Tonight I share a guest post written by a friend of mine, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela. While this post isn’t about yelling, per say, the take away is one that most definitely applies and well, it really inspired me and I […]
“30 Days to Yelling Less” Project
341 days without yelling, 24 days of loving more to go! ****Today’s date is January 17th, 2013. Due to massive interest I will take names of additional people interested up until end of day Friday, January 18th. After that date please still email me and I will sign you up for the next go around […]
Screw it! I quit!
337 days of not yelling, 28 days of loving more to go! Dear Yelling, You had a very sexy appeal this morning. Oh were you so enticing! Life felt hard and you seemed so easy, like the perfect escape from the madness. But alas, sexy isn’t always better and I am glad I didn’t give […]
My non-blog post, blog post
336 days without yelling, 29 days of loving more to go! Dear Orange Rhinos, Tonight, I wanted to sit and write a deep, thoughtful post about the important of preparing for change. The importance of putting in effort even when you don’t want to. Tonight, I wanted to sit and write up my plans for […]
My husband’s honest opinion
335 days without yelling, 30 days of loving more to go! Note: My husband wrote the following unbeknownst to me. I didn’t ask him to write it, he just surprised me with it on our wedding anniversary as a nod to my upcoming 1 year anniversary of not yelling. I was floored and touched and so many […]