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Shut Y’er Pie Hole
I don’t know when, or how, I will learn that saying less is better. I am entirely too much at ease with saying exactly what I think. I feel like I am respectful of…
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Miraculous Encounters of The Mommy Kind
Something that I never thought would happen HAS! I have met a group of mothers that I don’t feel completely frightened by. They don’t wear “workout clothes” (pajamas) everywhere they go. Even though they…
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Making Room
A year or so ago, my husband and I had a long (weeks long) conversation about how to get past being moderately satisfied with your position (in every aspect) to becoming truly satisfied and…
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Reconciling My Stressed Relationship With Time
Our weekend without the kids was a huge blast! We did get home, though, and spend the first few hours wandering around the house smelling their pillows and folding and refolding their clothes (ok…
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Wanting to Be Something Else
I am having a bit of a weird thing. I want to ride bikes with my kids. I want to be in graduate school, now, not a year from now. I want to be…
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Anticipation… Anticipa-yay-tion
Remember that weekend sans children that we got dooped out of a couple of weeks ago. Well, this weekend, we will get our due. The disappointment stung, yes, when we had it swiped right…
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So Guess Who The New Cub Scout Asst. Den Leader Is?
Yup. Go ahead. Call me a sucker.
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Snub Scouts
The Cub Scouts have started recruiting at my child’s school. I am not sure what to make of it. I feel as if I have to take his post-brainwashing session postcard, inviting him to be…
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Making It
There are times in everyone’s life, I think, when they question if the path they are on is the right one. Having a calling in life – like being an artist, a teacher, a…
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Love is a Many Freakish Thing
My brother finds himself in love. It’s weird, once you’ve been there yourself, to see someone you know so well sucumb to the utterly miserable beauty that falling in love is. I can remember…