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Yesterday was a good day.  I feel like I don’t come on here much to share the good days, and that is how the picture I paint becomes so skewed. ...

Sometimes I wish I were an introvert. Or that I weren’t an extrovert. Do you have to be one or the other? It took me a long time to recognize that I have ...

{I started writing this on Sunday morning, before I wrote my last post. My son still isn’t doing well–I think he has croup–but we haven’...

We’re three days into our vacation.  There are two thoughts that circle, like vultures. “I’m so glad we didn’t attempt this last ye...

Last night my husband and I watched Obvious Child. It’s an atypical romantic comedy about a woman (Jenny Slate, who is wonderful) dealing with the emotion...

There are different reasons I want to buy things. Some things just Look Cool (mostly clothes) and I want them to make me Look Cool. It’s pretty easy to pu...

Someone here recommended Crucial Conversations and it recently became available from my library. It’s a really incredible book about how to best execute t...

I came into my relationship with my husband (almost ten years ago!) a pretty needy person. I wanted to be with my him all the time and got frustrated when his m...

I’m getting caught up on grading and inputting said grades, so I don’t have a lot of time to write, but I wanted to say how thankful I am to have al...

We’re not having a third kid. I was really grateful to realize when I felt sure I didn’t actually want one (after believing my whole life that I did...