I used to hate the process of taking a shower. I only looked at it as a waste of really valuable time. Time I could spend doing other stuff. I don’t feel this way anymore. That’s because I’ve totally changed my thinking around taking a shower. Because you know what? I love the feeling of
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The Experience Jar
The last blog post I wrote was on July 13th. It was also the only blog post I wrote in July. That’s a new LBPWIAM record for me. Least Blog Posts Written In A Month. I seriously underestimated the degree to which July was going to kick my ass. IT SERIOUSLY KICKED MY ASS. July
Proud.
Number 5 is twelve years old. She’s on the swim team, and in two weeks there is a swim meet called Age Groups here in Connecticut. Age Groups is a swim meet that many young swimmers in CT want to qualify for. You have to have certain qualifying times in order to go. Number 5
I teach you how to believe in yourself.
It took me a long time to build up the courage to file for divorce. A long time. I knew for years what the right thing to do was. In my gut I knew I was fighting the inevitable. But I just didn’t have the inner strength — the inner belief — to pull the
Accidental Asshole
Four years ago, when Number 7 was five years old, she played her first (and last) season of soccer. She didn’t love that she didn’t play actual games, and she also was about nine thousand times more serious about winning than all the other girls playing. Number 7 takes her sports pretty seriously. So we
So Much Fun, Susie!
Last week I started a weekly summer bingo series for the NYAM community. It’s something I do with my E-School members, and I decided to offer it to anyone and everyone for the whole summer. For free! 195 women grabbed the first week’s bingo card, and 85 women joined the closed Facebook group where we’ve been having fun