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I Like… I Wish.

September 2, 2010

I like my husband… I wish we could spend more time together. I like nap time… I wish it were just a little longer. I like swimming at the pool… I wish Ronan would want to stay for more than 20 minutes. I like having a job… I wish I weren’t so exhausted from working all the time. I like… Read More

5 Comments Filed Under: Mommy Stuff Tagged With: I Like I Wish, Life Lessons, Lists

Searching for Happiness.

August 27, 2010

I’m not happy. What does it even mean to say that? How do I reconcile the fact that I am ‘happily’ married to an amazing man, with a beautiful son, have a rewarding career, a nice home and the ability to pay bills and put food on the table – but then say I’m not happy? What does it mean… Read More

11 Comments Filed Under: Mommy Stuff Tagged With: Broken, Happiness, The Battle Within

Just You Wait.

August 26, 2010

If you think I’m terrible at blogging now, just wait a few months. The most terrible part of it all is how desperately badly I want to write.  How I sit here with an open editor, and have to set it aside again and again to put out fires and calm tantrums. Sometimes I tweet my best material, and then… Read More

8 Comments Filed Under: Mommy Stuff Tagged With: Labor and Birth, Midwife, Pregnant, Wait

Who, Me?

August 25, 2010

I don’t run outside naked. Why would I let my kid run outside naked? You mean, besides because he LOVES it? Bwahahahahaha!

2 Comments Filed Under: Pictures Tagged With: Naked!, Shameless Showoff, Who Me?

Eighteen Months.

August 24, 2010

It is hard to believe I am writing these words. My son is eighteen months old. He has been alive, on this planet, in my arms and on the ground, for a year and a half.  Six very short months from now, he shall be two. I wish I could share every moment of every day.  I wish I had… Read More

2 Comments Filed Under: Mommy Stuff Tagged With: 18 months, Milestones, Moments To Remember

This Blog

August 19, 2010

So, I was going to post a blog today.  I didn’t know what I was going to write about, but I figured it would come to me. And then I read this blog. Everything sort of changed.  I can’t even begin to explain to you how it touched me.  How proud I am of its writer, and how strongly I… Read More

3 Comments Filed Under: Mommy Stuff Tagged With: Adrienne Gilby, Insanity, Repost, Rules of Motherhood

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