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dear mama, I promise, this one thing will destroy your home
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Today the kids had no school so we decided to go to the beach! It feels like it’s been forever, there was nothing else on the calendar, and the weather was amazing….so it was the perfect day to go. This lil one, even from when he was only a few months old, has never been…
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the one thing guaranteed to end all marriages
This morning I woke up to a text I’ve known for months was coming… It read, “the divorce is done.” Despite the foreknowledge, the finality of those four simple words put an immediate lump in my throat and an ache in my stomach. Today my parents marriage of 44 years is officially over. The rings have been…
Post-School-Conversations With Your Kids
I now have three kids in elementary school (which seems insane to me!). I love that they love going to class, that they love their friends, and that their teachers really are great. But I confess I miss them terribly when they are gone. I admit I am THAT mom that still gets a little…
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showing honor…toward the un-honorable
I was talking with a friend the other day who was sharing with me some very painful parts of her early childhood. An only child to an abusive father, a mentally-ill, perfection-driven mother…the loneliness, the shame, the pressure…the results and consequences of living through those circumstances…some of which still linger to this day… She was…