I just spent 20 minutes looking for a headband and growing increasingly angrier with each passing moment I wasted looking for it. I am having one of those mornings where nothing has gone the way I had envisioned it would, where Number 7 is relentless in wearing me down, and where it’s not even 9:30 […]
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Hey Facebook. You suck.
Toddlers and preschoolers are like little drug sniffing dogs for all the shit you have in your house that you don’t want them to find. Like tampons. And Sharpies. Last week Number 7 sniffed out a Sharpie. And she did this to herself. The combination of the connect-the-dots design she made, the mullet haircut Number 6 […]
Common Core? How about a little Common Sense?
Number 4 loves to read. LOOOOOOVES it. She loves to read inside. She loves to read outside. Her favorite special at school is “definitely, definitely Library.” Yesterday she came home from school with a book about Anne Frank. It wasn’t like a dumbed down, elementary school level, Anne Frank picture book. It was a non-fiction […]
A New Year’s Resolution in February.
I have always been a procrastinator. Sometimes it works in my favor. But not usually. After about a 10 year break, I started swim coaching again this year. All of my certifications had expired. I have been dragging my ass to take all of the courses to get recertified. Last Tuesday I finally finished the […]
Out of the ashes of 2013.
It’s the last day of 2013. I did a lot of things I never thought I would do this year. I lost 40 pounds. I ran a half marathon. I completed the NYC Triathlon. I completed my first marathon. The NYC Marathon!!! I raised over $8000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I started a […]
I’ve always wanted to be like Oprah. Just not so much in this department.
I remember when Oprah lost a ton of weight. And then she gained a lot of it back. I remember reading this quote from her. In 1992 I reached my heaviest, 237 pounds. I was 38. Then, four years ago, I made it a goal to lose weight, and I appeared on the January 2005 […]