The other morning I turned on the tv while I was making breakfast. The news came on. In one minute, there was a story about a teacher who got busted for offering students money to have sex with him, some dude who randomly started hacking a woman with a meat cleaver in Chinatown, and a psyyyyyyyyycho […]
Archives for February 2013
The greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Yesterday I was exhausted. Worse than usual. I woke up thinking that maybe I should throw in the Lose to Win towel. Every single part of my body is sore. My house is a shithole. And I feel like I am missing out on time with my kids. But I managed to drag my ass […]
I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy; I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.
I’ve been thinking about my weight loss journey, and I have some different milestones which I believe are a much more accurate measure of the phases you go through when you are working to lose weight. Screw the 160’s, 150’s, 140’s… This is how I’m charting my progress: Stage 1: I can’t see my toes. (And I haven’t […]
Proud Mommy, Part 3
We live in a really old house. 1787 old. The latches on the kids bedrooms are those old school wrought iron kind of latches. Kind of like this: Sometimes they get a little bit stuck, and the kids have a hard time opening them. One of those times was about 3 years ago. Number 3 was […]
It’s all fun and games until someone brings home a school project assignment.
You know how I feel about school projects. I hate them. In fact, Miss P, Number 4’s bus driver, recently told me this story… Last week a student walked onto her bus carrying a big project. She asked him, “Wow! What’s that?” His answer? “My 100th day of school project… …MY MOM DID IT ALL BY HERSELF!!!” […]
Help. It’s not a four letter word.
I want to be able to do it all. By myself. I want to work out 3 hours a day. And win this whole fucking Lose to Win thing. I want to stay on top of the laundry. And reply to all my emails in a timely manner. Or respond to all my emails at all. […]