Month: July 2019

When I don't write a blog every day it feels like forever since I've written one. I know it's only been a few days. The weather is crazy hot, I'm crazy tired, and the kids are crazy crazy. Can I tell you that I am just fine and dandy with two kids? Granted I'm missing… Continue reading Car Talk

I'm not saying this is an emo way, like all the world is pain and blah blah. No. But there is the reality that someday a person you love will hurt you. Not intentionally and not in an abusive way, but they will leave you some day. It could be a child, it could be… Continue reading Love is Pain

Today it has been 3 months since Bob died. (Almost exactly at the time I'm working on this too, which is also great to realize.) It feels like yesterday, and it feels like forever ago. I was home with the girls today, and I was just tired. Like "I made myself a cup of coffee… Continue reading 3 months short

It's a common phrase, and it's meant as a compliment more often than not. Usually followed by "I could never do that," or "I can't even imagine." But there's a simple answer to this complex question. The answer is I don't know how I do it either, I just do. My aunt and I were… Continue reading “I don’t know how you do it.”

What did we do before google maps? Before we would go on the internet and print off directions, before we could use the GPS on our phones in our cars? Map it out, measure the distance.... "it'll be x-amount of miles away." Now things are measured in time, like "I'll be there in 2 hours."… Continue reading The trip riddle

Have I mentioned yet that I'm a homebody? I want few things more than to just rest on a weekend. But I have kids. And my kids demand to be fed and demand to do stuff. Whether or not they are allowed to do said stuff remains to be seen. "Can we have chocolate milk… Continue reading Doin’ Stuff

It's always the days when you need a little peace that your kids seem to need you the most. I think I'd heard "mom" about 200 times before breakfast. And since last night was shower night, of course both kids got another shower this morning. Yesterday I was sneezing ALL DAY LONG. For those of… Continue reading Please let bedtime come early… for me.

After Bob was diagnosed I was talking to a coworker of mine, and she mentioned I should write a book about everything we were going through. Isn't that the thing everyone says about a hardship? "You should write a book about it." And I didn't write one, but I thought about it a lot during… Continue reading After everyone leaves

Sometimes you have to take the "mom wins" when you can. I started something a few days ago, and though it doesn't always work I'm passing it to you to experiment on your own kids. Since I'm exhausted by the time dinner rolls around, I started the "time for self play" idea, for like half… Continue reading Self play time