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McGrowing: Week 33

May 13, 2013

McGrowing: Week 33 WHAT WHAT?! A REAL PICTURE! Todd took these yesterday of me (and Annabelle) on Mother’s Day. This was my first day to wear a maxi and I felt pretty beautiful… until I saw the photos. Then I felt like a huge whale, so I didn’t look at the photo until this morning. [...]

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I am worthy of my job.

January 3, 2013

Since I was a little girl, I had a plan for my future. It looked like this: graduate high school, go to college, have a career, get married, and become a stay at home mom when the time came. It happened exactly as I had planned. I graduated in the top 10 percent of my [...]

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Give me a break.

August 30, 2012

Since our last move, we have had a hard time with B and sleep. Gone was our old method of sleep training. I didn’t have the heart or the energy to argue with my mother and grandmother about how B should sleep, and I just did whatever I could to get sleep to actually occur. [...]

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Questions about dreams: Just Write

August 28, 2012

The air is still tonight. I fix my eyes on the branches overlooking the water, trying to anticipate the movement, but I can see nothing. The barest ripple is there, but it is elusive and fleeting. Stillness. At least something on this earth is still tonight. My heart is not. Can not. Will not. I [...]

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I do, but I don’t.

August 7, 2012

I do but I don’t. The story of my life. Is anyone else like this? Can’t seem to make a decision? Constantly bouncing between two sides? My heart and my mind live at odds with each other. They are bickering teenagers. Ugh. I’m trying to edit. I’m just going to write. Here it is — [...]

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Parenting by instinct.

June 23, 2012

I don’t write much about parenting. I don’t feel like I have the authority to tell other people how to parent and I don’t like conflict so I don’t share my own views on parenting much at all. I recognize and respect the fact that there are a million different little ways to raise a [...]

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It’s no big deal (but I’m scared)

April 25, 2012

(Disclaimer: I know you are probably completely OVER this topic. I apologize. I promise I will stop talking about it. After this post. Or a follow up post or two. I promise. The end is coming… eventually.) Tomorrow morning I will have surgery to remove my gallbladder. It’s not a big deal, really. People have [...]

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I don’t trust urgent care clinics.

April 17, 2012

Maybe there’s someone out there that can change my mind about the whole thing, but I can’t bring myself to like urgent care clinics. My first experience with one was in college. I was down in Texas and I went in feeling like I was getting the flu. The doctor felt me up, told me [...]

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B’s 2nd Birthday Party!

April 9, 2012

We celebrated B’s second birthday on March 31! For the record — I don’t think I ever want to have her birthday party that close to mine again. It got a little confusing and a little too hectic! Throwing parties reminds me of my event planning days – and I forget every time how many [...]

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Happy Star Birthday to Me!

April 7, 2012

My Grandma Marie used to call it your “star birthday,” which meant your age and the number on the calendar matched up. This year was my star birthday. On March 28, I turned… 28. Which is one year from 29. Two years from 30. I am no longer in my mid-twenties. I am officially in [...]