parenting

  • Something is changing…

    …in me. I’m not quite sure how to describe it. I’m in a weird season…oh wait. You know what it is? I think I’m starting to actually feel like an adult now. I know,  I know, it’s weird. I’m kind of a whirlwind of a person. I’m extremely carefree and spontaneous driving all the type…

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  • Self-Loathing

    I have a serious problem lately. I’m self-loathing to a fault. I was sitting in front of a mirror today while getting a haircut and I couldn’t help but stare at myself in pure disgust. The black tarp covering my whole body from under my chin to my shins; even my paper white ankles looked…

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  • Where is your Sense of Adventure?

    Well… It’s that time of year again–school. I’m always so nervous on the first day of school no matter that’s it my seventh first day of school. I guess I’m nervous because it’s new. New students. New year. New clothes. New shoes. New supplies. I decided to move classrooms this year; on purpose. It was…

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  • Exhausted….

    Does anybody remember October? I don’t. I was excited and got pumpkins out near the first of October and then, boom it was Halloween. But everything in between is gone. Oh and November? That was a blur. I had a birthday somewhere in there and ate some good food with family on Thanksgiving but that’s…

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  • Raising Kind Kids

    It might be the teacher in me or it might just be my personality, but I am always trying to teach my kids to be kind. I hate it when my three kids argue with one another. I always stop them and give them the words they are lacking so they can get along better.…

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  • Trauma Kids

    Okay guys. My heart is heavy tonight. It could be exhaustion from teaching, working out, doing the dishes, working out some more, cooking dinner, allowing my son to drive me to pick up a prescription, giving my daughter a bath, reading with her, showering, and then reading a book for school. Or I’m PMS’ing. Ugh……

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  • I grew up on Monopoly. My three big sisters would come over for the weekend and my dad and my mom would get out the vintage game of Monopoly. There would be cardboard pizza, Doritos, Deans dip, and Pepsi. Mind you this was the 80’s. I remember my mom scratching the middle of the board…

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  • my wish

    That my kids will… stop looking at me like I’m crazy when I ask them to rinse their dishes use toilet paper after pooping dry off after a shower instead of drip dry through the house stop whining chew with their mouths closed stop putting weird things in the bathtub with them i.e. Q-tips pitch in…

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  • I miss my balls…

    Just when I thought I couldn’t get any worse as a hot mess mom, I do. I have relented to taking showers every two days. I’m only shaving once a week. I have been spot cleaning my jeans with really yummy smelling soaps from Bath and Body Works so I feel like it’s better than…

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  • To parents everywhere…

    God made babies cute for a reason. He really got us with those sparkly, crisp eyes and wet smile. Their soft wispy hairs that never lay down. Their warm soft forehead smells soothing when you kiss it. You inhale their goodness and instantly feel relaxed; at home. Their limber little bodies fit perfectly against your…

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