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pee smell.
8 years ago
I’d had visions of driving my minivan off a cliff for some time. It’d been the family vehicle for 6 years. We got it when I was 8 months pregnant with baby number 2, add one more child to the mix, THOUSANDS of miles, every stain, spill and bodily fluid truly known to man. A four year old who called the section between his seat[...]
trenches.
8 years ago
A couple of days ago, after a fun filled weekend of camping and family time, I decided to take my kids swimming at my brother’s one last time this summer. Here’s the thing. My heart was NOT in it. I wanted to stay home and tackle the mountain of laundry left in the wake of only 3 days of camping. Maybe rest before the work[...]
Disengaged.
8 years ago
When my husband and I started dating some 15 years ago, he was big into rock climbing. And I, I didn’t even know that rock climbing was a thing. I had never been in a harness...because thighs. I had never once scaled any kind of wall or rock type surface and I had zero upper body strength. None of this sounded fun. I was also[...]
first time listener.
9 years ago
Tomorrow is the last day of school for my 1st grader and Begindergartener. And I am more than thrilled. I can’t take one more minute in the pick up line (see previous post about my shame here), I can’t check the folder, I just so genuinely could care less about what is in that folder at this point. And packing lunch, well yes, while so[...]
don’t belong here.
9 years ago
I was recently shopping with a friend at the local outlet mall {because that’s what moms who are in their 30s do}. She needed clothes for a trip and I needed an excuse to leave the house. While shopping at a store I’ve been to a ton of times, I see an adorable flowy-blousy shirt that I must have. I grab it to try on.[...]
Mom game weak.
9 years ago
I love my kids something fierce, I am bonded and connected with them in such a profound indescribable way. I have had to come into my own story though, that this - this mom stuff, has not come easy to me. There is a voice in the back of my head that gives me some pause. Because mothering for me, doesn’t always come naturally. I’ve[...]
The one time I almost ran over a lady in the carpool line.
9 years ago
OHMYGOSH the carpool line situation at my kid’s school is so real. I have heard moms complain about this. I have seen the posts titled “dear mom in the carpool line”. I have watched the (what I thought were) over exaggerations of it in movies. Living it now, in the everyday. It’s all so. True. And because I am such a patient person, I[...]
These 5 life changing words.
9 years ago
YOU CANNOT CARE ABOUT EVERYTHING. Say it with me now. You can’t care about everything. One more time… I read this in a book or on a blog somewhere sometime ago and it’s funny cuz it’s been some of the most profound reading I’ve done in a long while. Which is sad too, cuz it kind of makes me feel like I’m lazy or giving[...]
#sorrynotsorry.
9 years ago
Megan was unapologetically Megan. Those words have not left my being for more than an hour or two since I heard them a few weeks ago. Driving, reading, conversations with people, parenting stuff, blow drying my hair… Unapologetically Megan. I heard those words while I was at the memorial for Megan. Megan had unexpectedly died at the age of 35. Megan was a friend and[...]
babump.
9 years ago
So here I am writing again. I’ve been a closeted writer for a long time. I journaled for years and years. I wrote everything down, until about the time I got married. Which until recently, really bothered me. I didn’t journal anymore, it had to be because I got too busy being a married person. I see now though, that wasn’t it at all. My[...]