Monday....the start of the work week for many of us and often a dreaded day. The weekend seems to go by so fast and now we are back to the grind of the work week. What if we looked at Mondays in a similar way to New Year's Day? What if we took just a fraction of the excitement we often have for the ...

August of 2018...A day in NYC to celebrate my younger daughter's 16th birthday which is actually in September, but she wanted to have this day before my oldest went off to college. She chose to spend the day in her favorite city with an activity she had wanted to do for a long time. We also brought ...

I think those of us who are goal oriented and driven are often very competitive even if it's only with ourselves. Depending on the scenario, we want to be the best. What does that truly mean and how is it measured? If we are talking about some type of competition, then maybe it's measured by the sco...

Earlier this month, I did a "Fun Friday" post about international travel, and mentioned I would do a follow up post about a trip to Italy, so here it is! As we are almost at the end of the first month of 2021, we have not seen any change in our travel restrictions, and sadly I think it may...

Comparison photos can be so much fun, especially when the recent photo just by chance recreates the photo from many years prior. That was the case with the few collages I have created for "Throwback Thursday" this week. It's a popular thing these days to try and recreate photos from the pa...

An opportunity to try something new can be a little scary depending what it is, but also so much fun. I grew up around horses and used to ride competitively when I was in high school. My younger daughter has also been a competitive rider over the past several years. It has been a lot of fun to now b...

I could not have been more excited to share the above photo on social media the minute I had the first dose of the vaccine. It was given to me as the most amazing Christmas gift on December 24th. I received the second dose this past week and had no issues with it. I am so thankful to now be fully va...

Not much of a story here...just a quick look back at one of our many trips to Rehoboth Beach. From where we live it can be a toss up between the Jersey shore and the Delaware beaches. This is back in 2012 during a weekend trip to the beach. We did a few week long trips over the summer and in more re...

I am the first to admit that it is nearly impossible to be a working mom without help, but I also believe that your ultimate success at anything you do comes from within. In order to achieve whatever goal you may have, it is important to have the motivation and drive to do whatever it takes. Some da...

It was May of 2015...the Pittsburgh marathon and half marathon. Pittsburgh is a city near and dear to my heart. I did my residency there, and both of my daughters were born there. As I was getting back into distance running, I tried to do a race every so often, and this was a great opportunity to do...

How many of us can relate? I know the idea of making New Year's resolutions is often very exciting. The new year always seems like a fresh start and a chance to set new goals. This can be in the form of changing bad habits, or trying something brand new. Some have no interest in making resolutions, ...

First of all, I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and a wonderful 2021!! The expectations are huge for this year, so let's hope it can bring back some sense of normalcy to the world. A major part of that would be the ability for us to safely and freely travel. This has been missed mo...

Christmas morning 2015 will not soon be forgotten. It was the day my then 15 and 13 year old daughters received the most sought after tickets on Broadway...Hamilton! (the tickets were for me and my parents too

written by Kayla Fineza (age 18)...

I didn’t notice any difference between my family and my friends’ families until I was about 9 or 10. Having a working mom, or parents, with demanding schedules seemed to be the norm for a lot of kids my age; however, I didn’t have any friends who ...

Hershey Park... the home of great rides, a water park and of course chocolate world has some wonderful festivities around the holidays. We live just over an hour from Hershey, so we have taken full advantage of this over the years. When my kids were younger, we went for an overnight trip once at Chr...

Living in the northeast, winter typically means snow. Where we live it varies year to year, but we can usually count on at least one or two good storms. It would always be very exciting for my kids who loved to go out and sled and  make snow angels or snowmen and then come in and warm up with h...

I will never get tired of this view during a Carbon Leaf concert at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.  If you saw yesterday's post, you have been introduced to my love for this band. I took a little trip down memory lane yesterday with photos from concerts over the year...

One of my good friends from residency used to give me recommendations for bands to listen to. He would send me a song or just the band name, and if I liked them, I would go buy a CD. Yep...this is before the time of just downloading the song, asking Alexa to play it, or listening on Spotify...we're ...

The above quote makes me laugh and it is definitely my feeling most Mondays. For me Monday is typically a busy day in the office seeing patients. Tuesday and Friday are my days in surgery, which are the days I enjoy the most. I think this is true for all surgeons. We train for many year...