Do you ever just wake up and feel like ‘now what?’ I woke up this morning, and I just feel really sad. Sad because I feel like the universe is just kind of giving me the cold shoulder. I’m going through a multitude of really harsh realities right now, and …
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The word that best describes my life right now is: frantic. I feel like no matter what I do, no matter how well I prepare for each day, I am completely frantic. I feel like I’m constantly in a race against time to try to get done what needs to …
Read More »The Real Story Behind the Facebook Posts
There is a lot of chatter about how people are fake on Facebook and don’t tell the real story… About how this makes our lives look way better than they are, and that is the cause of some people’s depression. I’m an optimist by nature, and I admit that I …
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Parenting. It comes in all shapes and sizes. For the most part, before I had kids, I thought parenting would come easy and naturally. I would enforce rules and my kids would just listen. Parenting would be easy. I didn’t think it would be something I would have to work …
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I love my child. I love my child. I love my child. But also—CLEARLY—she’s systematically trying to destroy me. Somehow that little 5-year-old brain has worked out exactly what buttons of mine to push, and she pushes and pushes and pushes them. She’s either an evil genius or she has …
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