Before we told the kids about the divorce, I was terrified of both their reaction and my reaction. I couldn’t fathom not being with them. Not even for one night. Which is kind of funny. Because there have been many, many, many nights where I would have loved a break. And now I have that […]
Life at My House
My First Night
***NOTE FROM SUSIE — trying something new tonight… I might have a book in me. Here’s a chapter. What do you think?*** We told the kids about the divorce the Friday night before. All the details had yet to be worked out, and we were all still living in the same house. One thing we […]
Just A Little Tropical Storm
My blog post streak was ruined again. This time by Mother Nature. On Tuesday what was left of Hurricane Isaias made its way to Connecticut. I don’t watch the news, and I’ve been a little distracted by life lately, so I don’t know if I missed a bunch of warnings or if nobody really warned […]
I Can Sit In Discomfort
Yesterday I shared that I am getting divorced. This wasn’t a decision we came to quickly. In fact the process was officially started almost a year ago. But it wasn’t until last week that we shared this information with the kids. There are two reasons it took so long to really get the process moving. […]
Starting A New Chain
On July 8th after being really sporadic with blog posts, I wrote this post declaring that I was getting back on the wagon and I was committing to writing blog posts every day for… ever. I made it for thirteen days in a row. Then I took a little detour for two days. Then I […]
My Name Is George
I’ve been participating in an 8-week strength training program. It’s called Butt Camp. It’s actually a shred and booty-building program. There’s a little (optional) competition in this program. Being competitive, of course I’m participating in it. I was supposed to do 50 minutes of cardio this morning according to the Butt Camp plan. I went […]
