Parenting
Today, there is Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy
Yesterday, I was shocked by the news of the day. I spent the next 24 hours “feeling” my feelings. I’d be calm,…
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Unemployment and the Family~ How to Survive it
Unemployment makes Beggars of Proud Men Unemployment is usurper of life. This morning, I woke up feeling a little nauseous in my…
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Jammies, Ponies, and Yoga pants…Oh My!
What’s the love/hate relationship all moms have with yoga pants? Where does it come from? Earlier today I am getting ready to…
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Mental Health
Bringing the feisty broad back
I am a Mommy, first and foremost. It’s a fact of my life. I love it. I chose it. This is not…
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Hey,Look at that Fat Girl
Let me preface this by saying, I am so paranoid about my girls developing body issues that if you ask them ,”What…
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Permission Granted
I don’t know about the rest of you, but some days I feel like I don’t know who I am. Not the…
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Parenting
Incapacitated and Dominated; Whack Back Pain Leaving you at the Mercy of your Children
Back Pain ~This morning was a morning to end all mornings. I woke up, in our apartment in Virginia, where we are…
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PMS and Motherhood
PMS~ There is Premenstrual Syndrome, more aptly called the one week a month that I hate all living creatures for even having…
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Road Tripping with Toddlers or Hell on Wheels
Road Tripping with Toddlers is not for the week. We are on a mini vacation/ look see around town for my husbands…
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Breaking up is hard to do
Breaking Up is hard to do~ We’ve all been there. That’s moment in a relationship when you know its not going anywhere,…
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