I am one of those people who is not totally hating life right now. I appreciate the down time. I appreciate the extra time with my kids, especially Number 4 who is leaving for boarding school (and no, I’m not shipping her off — she has wanted to go for 2 years and she got […]
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Day 10: Now Is NOT The Time To Neglect Yourself
In the past nine days I have spent approximately eleven hours away from the kids. There have been two trips to the grocery stores — one last Saturday and one yesterday — totaling about 5 1/2 total hours between two different stores in each trip and also shopping for my parents. The other 5 hours […]
Sitting In Discomfort And Feeling The Shitty Feelings
In yesterday’s post, I wrote about our decision to move back to our local swim team after two years on a different team. A team the kids are all enjoying being a part of and a team where I very much enjoy coaching. I know this is the right decision for us. But BOY am […]
It’s So Easy To Lose Yourself In Motherhood
Earlier today I shared this post on the Not Your Average Mom Facebook page: It was a pretty popular post with lots of women really relating to it. I can definitely relate to it. It’s really easy to lose yourself in motherhood. Combine the needs of your kids with the need to work and make […]
The Weed/Marlboro/Franzia/Cap’n Crunch Approach Is No Longer Serving Me
I had an a-ha moment yesterday. Let me back up a little bit first. I have been all over the place with my weight pretty much my whole life. As a high schooler, I never thought I was thin enough. In college I was on the swim team and I swam — a lot — […]
Monday Is The New Sunday
Now that it’s October we have entered swim meet season which means that 1-2 weekends per month will be spent at the pool. Number 6 also started wrestling this year, and he will have wrestling meets — do they call them meets? or are they matches? — on the weekends starting in a month or […]