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Biting my lip

December 5, 2011

My lips are dry and sore. I bite them because I’m nervous and on edge and just a wee bit stressed out lately and that makes them dry and then I bite them because they are dry.  “Quit biting your lip,” I can hear my father saying as he’d tap my chin to remind me. [...]

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Another day, another dollar

October 11, 2011

With the first tentative sip to test the temperature, I stare at the computer screen.  My hands are wrapped around the heavy mug, the warmth from the cup just shy of burning my hands as the air from the space heater takes on the office.  I think about the toddler who woke up at 4am [...]

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This isn’t all I am

October 5, 2011

Sometimes I love this space. Hard. I love that I can connect with other mothers who I’d probably never cross paths with, stories I would never share, women I would never, otherwise know.  I love that I can share stories about my kids, post pictures for family and friends. Pictures and moments that I can [...]

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Memo to my babies

May 2, 2011

Dear Chessa and Cole, For the first time in eight weeks (Cole for the first time in your life) I left you all day long.  From 7:45 in the morning until 5:15 this afternoon, I turned your care and well being over to your Nauni and I went to work.  It was crushing for me.  [...]

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A very heavy book

January 5, 2011

So. A book showed up at my house last week.  Hand delivered by our post woman who knocked at the door just at the beginning of naptime.  (I’ll forgive her this time. But remind me to put a note out there when the baby comes, ok?) This wasn’t just any book.  It was a text [...]

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Life’s about timing, right?

October 13, 2010

I’ve never been particularly fond of the phrase, “if it’s meant to be, it will be”.  I’ve called it bullshit.  I’ve called that a cop out.  I’ve called that not fighting for what you want.  I always thought if you wanted something bad enough, you just found a way to get it.  Then I grew up [...]

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A taste of work at home

September 8, 2010

The upside (well not upside, but the thing that made it bearable and kept me from losing my mind) to my mother-in-law getting sick a few weeks ago was having the flexibility from my boss to work from home as needed.  The excited, if not naïve, Krista had visions of sleeping in until 6:30 (yes, [...]

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Breaking one of my cardinal rules

August 31, 2010

I have a few rules for this blog.  I don’t write about my family, outside of telling stories or showing my appreciation for them.  I know that as good as it would feel to open up this editor and pound out a post about a fight or an annoyance (like when Craig says he’s going [...]

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My family of volunteers

July 2, 2010

My poor family.  Because of my chosen career path they often get strong armed, guilted, persuaded into attending events that I’m planning.  In fact, Craig and I met at one of these very events just over eight years ago.  Remind me to tell you how he brought a girl to what I thought might have [...]

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When there is not enough of me to around

April 29, 2010

Today this working mother thing is not working out.  I have IMs flashing at me from coworkers who want to know why their projects aren’t complete and missed phone calls from other staff members who have questions or problems to be addressed.  I chose to ask for forgiveness not permission this morning and forgiveness did [...]

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