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Small Changes, Big Results

December 28, 2022

I kicked off 2022 weighing 184 pounds. It was the heaviest I had ever been outside of pregancy. I basically ate my way through the discomfort of 2021, and I had developed some solid (and really unhealthy) eating habits in the process. I used food to numb myself, and I did a good job! 😂

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I’m ready to focus on sleep.

December 27, 2022

I haven’t ever had great sleep hygiene. When I was a kid it often took me a really long time to fall asleep. In my late twenties I developed some really bad issues with insomnia that eventually led to depression and hospitalization. Lying in bed trying to fall asleep and then having major anxiety about

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Our Christmas

December 26, 2022

The kids and I had a really nice Christmas this year. Our routine isn’t the same as it was before the divorce, but we have all adapted. This year I had time with the kids from 12 pm on Christmas Eve to 12 pm on Christmas day. We started going to the movies on Christmas

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The Night Before Christmas

December 24, 2022

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Except for Mom, who still had hours to go, Cutting, wrapping and tying bow after bow. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, While Dad stretched out, snoring, in his favorite reclining chair. The

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Not Much Has Changed

December 23, 2022

It’s impossible to predict what your kids will grow up to be like when they are born. You never know. It’s a crap shoot. But there are some aspects of their personality that are evident very early on. I was looking at some old pictures the other day from my grandmother. She was pretty good

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The First Christmas Was Pretty Simple

December 22, 2022

Six years ago I wrote a post entitled To All the Moms At Christmas, and I re-shared it a couple days ago on the NYAM Facebook page. When I wrote that post the kids were 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 years old. Everyone believed in Santa. I was in the thick of parenting young

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