I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but there is a trend among celebrities to wear these contraptions called waist trainers. Which are really just corsets. All the Kardashians and Kim Zolciak post pictures of themselves in these torture devices fairly regularly. I just have something to say to these women. Um… You look really […]
Archives for May 2015
5 Things I Want for Mother’s Day
I have been a mother now for ten years. I have experienced 10 Mother’s Days. That very first year as a mom I waited in anticipation for that amazing gift. For the perfect day where the world revolved around me. I soon learned that Mother’s Day isn’t really all that different from every other day. I stopped expecting […]
Sometimes you just gotta say…
As a forty-five-year-old mom to seven, I have made lots of mistakes. I’ve learned lots of lessons. At this point, I pretty much know what I need to do. I know what works. And I think I’m like half way to a nursing degree. I can pretty accurately diagnose croup and strep. I can distinguish between poison ivy […]
Oh, to be young and… screw that. I’m glad I’m older.
Last night I went to a town meeting, and then a bunch of people went out for drinks afterward. We went to a Mexican restaurant, and I had completely forgotten that it was Cinco de Mayo (so if you saw pictures on Facebook of moms serving little Cinco de Mayo lunches to their kids and felt […]
What’s for breakfast? I’ll have the frog.
I’m super short on time today, so just want to share this quick saying I learned from one of the members of my e-course. The other day she mentioned that she was going to “eat the frog.” None of us really knew what she meant. She explained that it originated from this Mark Twain quote: […]
It’s happening. I can feel it.
I have had a few speaking engagements before, but tonight I had my first paid one. It was at the Easton Public Library which is about a half hour from my house. I had been checking the registrations online and there weren’t too many people signed up to attend. Only seven people. Talk about being out […]