If you’ve been around a while, you might remember Miss Pam. She started out as our amazing bus driver. She delivered the kids safely and happily to my house hundreds and hundreds of times. Then Miss Pam became a friend. And when I put a call out to my friends asking for help painting my
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Living in the Could Be
One of the things holding me back from pulling the trigger and going through with a divorce was taking the kids away from the home they had grown up in. Whether their father moved out or I moved out or we both moved out and the house was sold, they were going to be spending
Making A Deposit In The Bank Of Hard Shit
My ten-year-old went back to school for the first time today after being out of a classroom for just shy of a year and being homeschooled since September 2020. Now that the elementary schools are back full time and the K-8 kids are in school five days a week aaaand we are settled into our
The Leather Couch
Being divorced and living on my own is a strange feeling. It’s starting to feel “normal.” But it’s still a little weird. It’s weird to have an absence of tension in my house. It’s weird to have peace. It’s weird to have freedom. It’s awesome. But it’s still a little weird. What’s also weird is
My Awesome New Office
Yesterday I shared some pictures of my new house with you. Something you may not know about me is that I love to decorate. I love remodeling and repurposing and redecorating and re….EVERYTHING. I’ve just never really had the time to do it, and our old house had so many problems that redecorating was pretty
The Next Chapter
Two weeks and two days ago, my parents closed on a new home for the kids and me. I’m renting it from them until I can qualify for a mortgage on my own. The journey from first seeing the house to closing on it was a long and VERY emotional one – it was a