My midlife crisis continues. But my MLC isn’t about doing things to reclaim my youth. I’m not about to buy a Harley or a Ferrari. I’m not making plans to get plastic surgery and I’m not on the hunt for a twenty-something boyfriend. My midlife crisis is more of a midlife reevaluation. A look at what […]
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Your husband just wants your respect. But are you giving it to him?
Last week a reader left a comment in response to the post I wrote about marriage being really fucking hard. It was a comment from a male reader, and in it he said: What I do know is this, wives want to be loved and they want their husband to validate their love for them […]
22 Lessons I Learned When We Almost Lost Everything
If you’ve been around here a while, you know that the past few years have been financial hell for my family. Three years ago we had to file for bankruptcy. Two and a half years ago foreclosure proceedings started on our house. Two years ago we went on food stamps. Things got worse from there. Things […]
Why do I exercise? Because I kind of love staying out of the nut house.
You know how I feel about exercise. It needs to be a priority in your life. I don’t mean that you need to be training for marathons or working out for two hours a day or anything like that. Being much closer to 50 (holy crap) than I am to 40 has me really thinking […]
10 Things I Learned in My First Week on Whole30
10 Things I Learned in My First Week on Whole30 1.Have a plan of attack. I started Day 1 with nothing prepped and my kitchen looking like this, and it definitely didn’t help. 2. You can eat a shitload of food on this program. It just can’t be crap. And how f***ing good does that look, […]
Mom, what if I don’t get into the high class?
Number 3 is in the middle of standardized testing at school. He came home last week really worried. “Mom, my teacher told me that if we didn’t get a high score we wouldn’t get put in the high classes next year.” Ugh. “But she said if we aren’t in a high class one year, we can […]
