Monthly Archives: January 2010

Happiness – Just CHOOSE it Already! 21

Some days, I feel like my ability to be happy has been taken away from me. There’s the classic wrong-side-of-the-bed syndrome, one-or-all-of-my-kids-is-being-a-brat-itis, the-scale-is-evil-and-WRONG-but-I’m-going-to-cry-anyway-osis, and all other manner of happiness robbing happenstances.
Yesterday was such a day. I fought it, and I fought hard. I tried to remain sweet and loving with my children, [...]

Dear Becca, 16

You are four today. Four years and I still haven’t got you figured out. At all. You’re way too young to be so engimatic.
On the one hand, you have a cherubic look about you with your pink tinged cheeks, shiny blonde hair, and big blue eyes. You have those rosebud lips [...]

I Spy 13

We spent the weekend switching our upstairs bedroom with the girls’ downstairs one. It was sweaty, grueling work and I think my accident-prone self has wracked up more bruises and scratches in the past two days than the past two months combined.
Oh but it was fun. (Pictures Forthcoming)
There’s a sort of [...]

And Today? 13

Today I’m laughing at myself over yesterday’s drama. Some gals are dancing queens. Me? I’m a drama queen apparently.
I’m changing. That’s what it all comes down to. And it’s a good, good thing. And the fear is optional, as it always has been.
And really, I know exactly who I’m [...]