Today is the first day of spring break for the kids, and this is my first divorced spring break. It’s also the first time I won’t see my kids for seven consecutive days because this year they will be spending the break with their dad. It would be hard if they were going somewhere far away. […]
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I Need A Wife — The Road Trip, Part III
The week after the swim meet was our spring break. Rather than head back home, I arranged a few visits with friends, so we were able to spend a few more days in Florida basically for free. We left St. Petersburg on Monday and headed a little bit further south to see my aunt — […]
The Road Trip, Part I
Last year after looking at five million spring break pictures my friends were posting on Facebook, I vowed that this year I would go somewhere warm and tropical, too. I used to take a yearly vacation to Puerto Rico every spring break. Then I got married and had kids and that came to a screeching […]
No Longer F*cking Around. In 2019 I Am Making It Happen.
I believe in the power of putting things out there into the Universe. I believe setting goals helps them to become a reality. I believe writing those goals down is the first step in making them happen. And I believe if one more person posts a spring break picture of themselves in a tropical paradise, […]
Day 3 Of Spring Break
Yesterday I shared how I lost it a little on the kids cause they were being pretty jerky but then after a little reflection I realized the jerkiness was about 97% the result of my failure to stay consistent with routines over the past few weeks, so I put a freeze on technology and TV […]
What I Learned Over Spring Break
Last week was our spring break. It was the first spring break in about five years that we haven’t had major money problems. Where we weren’t in danger of losing our house, where the Man from CL&P wasn’t coming to knock on our door on an almost monthly basis, where we weren’t on food stamps, […]