Always evolving, Never Average
About five weeks ago I declared I was taking massive action and writing one blog post a day for 30 consecutive days. I had really fallen out of the blog writing routine, and I was super erratic with posts, and I wanted and needed to get some consistency back. I wrote 32 consecutive posts. I …Read More
Our last day of school was on June 19th which was three weeks (and one day) ago. Leading up to June 19th, the weather here in CT sort of sucked. We had a lot of rain and it seemed like the sun was never going to come out and stay out and summer weather would …Read More
Number 7 is the baby of the family. Here she is on her first day of preschool when she was not quite three years old yet. Super cute, right? Being the baby of the family, she (as many youngest kids often do) has a way of working her magic on people and getting what she …Read More
My parents gave me the entire Little House On The Prairie DVD set for Christmas a few years ago. It is one of my favorite gifts to date. We started watching it as a family then, but the three little guys were really too little to get it, and we only made it the beginning …Read More
The other day I saw a post floating around Facebook entitled I’m Sick Of Having To Lose My Shit Before My Family Listens. This caught my eye because, well, I would have said something similar years ago. But I’ve spent the past few years doing a lot of work on myself. And here is the …Read More
I shared this earlier on Facebook today. And I wanted to publish it here for anyone who either missed it on Facebook or who isn’t on Facebook: I LOVE summer, but when the kids are home from school, I panic every year. Working from home, I go into complete freak out mode wondering how I’m …Read More
When it comes to elementary education, there are three things I feel pretty strongly about. I don’t believe in homework for students in grades K through 4. I think kids need way more recess than they currently receive. I don’t believe kids should have cell phones in school. If you’ve been around here for a …Read More
Fourteen years and six months ago after polishing off a bottle of wine and a pack of cigarettes by myself, I took a pregnancy test. I have no idea what prompted me to do this or why I even had a pregnancy test at home in the first place. It was positive. I was drunk …Read More
I post pictures of my kids on Facebook and Instagram or here on the blog doing stuff that’s noteworthy or admirable or whatever all the time. Like this picture of Number 5 when she was Timon in the 4th grade play: And this one of Number 3 the night of his 8th grade graduation: And …Read More
It was Number 5 and Number 6’s birthday yesterday. Since it was also Number 3’s 8th grade graduation last night, I wanted to be able to celebrate on their actual day. But since we are also still in school, I had to get creative. So I picked them up early from school, along with Number …Read More
