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Thoughts on Time and the One Word That Drives Me Nuts
Let’s discuss time and how we spend it. I think if we looked at time in the same way we look at money we would be more discerning in how we spent it. If you were only given $24 in your day would you really choose to spend $3 surfing Facebook? See, that right there was a game-changer when you put it into perspective. Why do we value money to the point that we go to great lengths to save it any chance we get (ie, coupons, Black Friday shopping, BOGOs…) but when we have an opportunity to save time (ie. turning the TV off, getting off of devices, logging…
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The Mom Machine
Growing up in a large family, our house was pretty much chaos 24/7. I think my mom liked it that way. If the house was too quiet she seemed uncomfortable. She slept with the television on just for background noise…come to think of it, the television was ALWAYS on, not because anyone was watching it but because Mom liked the noise. My mom did a lot for our family. She kept the crazy together if you know what I mean. Dad worked a ridiculous number of hours each week to provide for all of us and Mom kept the house running. It’s just how our family worked. Now that I…
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He Who Humbles Himself Shall Be Exulted
Remember the last couple of weeks before New Years when everyone was chatting it up about all of the great things they were going to accomplish in the new year? Remember that? Yeah, me too. I was one of those people with a list of resolutions this and goals that…what the heck? I don’t know about you but I’m getting my butt kicked by 2018 and we’re only 4 weeks in! Now, some may think this is a bad thing…most actually…however, I have been doing some reading and apparently when life hands you a bucket of worms you’re supposed to go fishing or something like that. There’s supposed to be some deeper…
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Baby, There Are Simply No Words…
I honestly don’t even know how or where to start this post. And for a writer, it is a rarity that I ever run out of things to say. Something has been weighing heavily on my heart, not just recently, but for the past 9 years actually. I’ve held it in. I’ve journaled. I’ve cried. And now I share it…with all of you. I had a son. His name was Brendan. He would have been 9 years old this September…actually, he wasn’t due until November. He was a vibrant baby…always kicking and rolling around. The kids were thrilled to be adding #8 to our beautiful family, especially Nathan. You see,…
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I Caught Myself Doing It Again…
Yep, I caught myself doing it again…being a big, fat negative loser this morning. Let me bring you up to speed… So my 9 year old tells me at 6:10 this morning that, “Oh yeah Mom, our field trip got rescheduled for TODAY! I’m so excited…and we have to be to the bus depot by 7:30. Can I have a banana?” What the what? Now the race is on. It’s too late to have the 2 younger girls get ready fast enough to make the bus, plus I need to drop off cake pops for Teacher Appreciation day anyway…so I guess they are going to be late. Sigh…there goes my…
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Will Your Relationship Survive Valentine’s Day?
There was a time when Valentine’s Day was a day we celebrated the beautiful story of St. Valentine. During the third century in Rome, Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and children, so he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, a priest at the time, believed the decree to be unfair, so he married young couples in secret. Needless to say, the Emperor was ticked off when he found out, so he had his cronies put Valentine to death. A priest martyred for love makes an intriguing story, wouldn’t you agree? So here we are, like a bazillion years later, and somehow…
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Feeling Small
Today I feel small. Not in the sense that I lost 50 pounds over night kind of small…small in relation to everyone and everything else around me. Insignificant may be a better word. Each day I take my kids to school and it’s like Groundhog Day. I mean seriously, I pass the same people at the same places in town at the same time every weekday…like clockwork. Last week, I didn’t pass the old farmer that pulls out in front of me every morning in his beat up pick-up truck and I got seriously worried he had passed away! Why? I don’t even know him and he pisses me…
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Love Grows Best In Little Houses
Well, the latest of our many military moves is nearly over and I have to say, this one was a doozy. Plans changed about 52 times before we finally were able to make a definite plan of action and go with it. As the saying goes “When Plan A doesn’t work there are 25 other letters of the alphabet.” I think we may have been embarking on X,Y AND Z! Such is life as a military family, and we are happy with our choices and ready to move on with life as “usual”. Probably the biggest change we’ve made was downsizing. We started off in a house that was…
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Official Count Your Blessings Day!
Okay, so maybe it’s not on your calendar or Fox News or anything huge like that, but today I am deeming (in my own right) Offical Count Your Blessings Day! That’s right peeps…for the next 24 hours (give or take depending on when you’re reading this) I would love nothing more than to see all of you post your biggest, most special blessings in your life! Come on, you know you have them. It’s Monday, and I don’t know about you but mine got off to a pretty crappy start. So I said to myself, “Self, are ya gonna let this bite you in the butt or are you gonna…
