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Discouraged. It’s what you feel when you’re stagnant in your career. It’s what you feel when you’re exercising five days a week, eating moderately healthy, and the scale just won’t budge. It’s what you feel when you and your spouse continue to argue over menial things, but you just can’t get and keep a hold…
Energy? Energy? Where are you? I can’t find you. I was really hoping to use these non-kid-directed four hours to be productive, but you are nowhere to be found. Where have you run off to? You are not supposed to just up and leave whenever you feel like it. I need you around all of…
Hey Guys. Allow me to let you in on a little secret — I don’t have a lot of time. Okay, that’s not really a secret and according to my husband, I b*tch, complain, and preach about it far and wide to anyone within earshot at every opportunity. Am I a martyr? I’m not trying to be,…
Today, my daughter and I wrote a story. So did my son and I. Let’s start with what prompted this: Last night, my daughter said something that hurt a bit. She said that she needs more attention and that I am always saying “one second” or “in a minute”. I sat there on the floor…
Just kidding. Beer is not my why! In truth, it’s usually my “why not!?” But really, the title and image together intrigued you, didn’t it? A little clickbaity maybe, but that was not my whole intention. The truth is that I couldn’t find a picture of all my offspring where at least one of their…
Balance – the holy-grail of peace, mindfulness, and joy that we all strive, long, pray, hope, and even grovel for, but rarely find. Us mothers, we want it, we need it, we strive for it and are on a never-ending quest to find it, and I think I just may have uncovered the key to…
Yesterday, I was a kid. I was playing soccer and running around with my siblings, driving my parents crazy. Yesterday, I was a teenager. I was trying out different hairstyles and trends and chasing around boys in my short skirt. Yesterday, I went to college. I moved to a new state and had lots of…
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