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Life Update and Future Plans for This Blog (No, I’m Not Leaving!)
I really miss reading everyone’s blogs, but I’ve been avoiding my phone. While my family had the flu, my mother was continually texting me that my stepfather (86) was going down in health, at the hospital, that he wasn’t going to make it. Then a day or two later she’d text, “He’s back at home…
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Feeling Guilty for Wanting Alone Time as a Mom
My kid was sick for a week, then I got his flu and got sick for a week, and now pms is knocking at my door. And I feel so guilty because yesterday, I just wanted some time alone. Away from toys. Away from children’s songs and TV. Away from being asked constantly to do…
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It Wasn’t the Experience, It Was My Reaction to it That Helped Me Grow
Trigger Warning: talk of abuse from parents, including Narcissistic abuse, weapons, SA, and animal cruelty. That’s a heck of a trigger warning, eh? But I needed to add it, because I don’t want to make anyone’s reading experience an unpleasant one. I want everyone to know what they’re going to read in the next few…
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Sick Days Are Rest Days
Well, we’ve finally caught the cold that has been going around. Which isn’t hard to do when you have a little one under 6 yrs old x-] We’ve been blessed to have avoided all the big illnesses this winter. We really haven’t been sick at all until now. And now? It’s time to rest. Today…
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Are You Seriously This Great?? My Favorite People to Be Around
It would be too easy to say “my family,” because truly, they are my favorite people to be around! So, I’ll speak about a group of people who blew my mind by being who they are. I wasn’t a Christian in my teens, twenties, and even most of my thirties. That’s just not how I…
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My Super Useful Black Sneakers
I’ve worn lots of shoes… and no, that’s not meant to be a Forrest Gump quote! :-] I have, and lots of styles. When I had a baby, that baby grew up to walk around – actually, pretty much run around everywhere (not unlike Forrest Gump…) so I had to change my shoe style pronto!…
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Perpetuating a Cycle That I Would Break
I’m not sharing this to put down my parents, but rather to show that hope and love can break harmful generational cycles. At my age (over 40), my parents were not doing well. My biological father had abandoned me as a baby. He was right at age 40 when I was born, and he left…
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My Baby is Now a Big Kid
sharing … a joyful time: My son recently turned 4 years old 🎉 Not sure if I wanted a bunch of 4 year olds running around my house, I decided to bring cupcakes to his Sunday school class instead :-] I was told to bring enough for 8 kids. I got a dozen cupcakes. Then…
Dear Quiet 