Upon walking through the door, we were greeted by so many smiling faces. The crowd seems to get bigger each year. Christmas lights were strung around the room giving us the full effects of that magical look this holiday can pull off like no other. We moved through the bar area saying our hellos, filling […]
Holiday Greetings from the Parenting Trenches
Dear Family and Friends, It is that time of year again. How it gets here so fast, despite having a mom calendar with the fanciest reminder stickers, I will never know. One would think my first clue would have been the ornaments starting to take up space at all the stores while I was looking […]
Only A Drill
It was dismissal time on a cool December afternoon when I walked some of my first graders out the door. One kid went running to his mom at the sight of her. I smiled watching the excitement of their embrace when I noticed something seemed off with the mother. Tears filled her eyes and it […]
The Biggest Hello
Do you ever really take a moment to think about someone you just met and wonder how long they will be a part of your life for? There are friendships that you don’t even see coming but when they leave, you know you are a better person for having been a part of it. You […]
50 Minute Time Out
Age 36 was when I had my first massage. All of the stress that I had been feeling for a long time got to such a point that my husband insisted I go. Handing over our infant, I went somewhat hesitantly to let some stranger see me naked after somewhat recent childbirth. I must have […]
Face It
In my quest to somewhat manage my life stress, I pay a monthly fee to get a massage every month. And because life is the usual chaos, I have neglected to even get that done for a good few months. So I accumulate the services until they are used. This vacation, my husband has been […]
Transformation
So I am going to come right out and start with this.. I still think blue eye shadow is kind of cool. And that’s pretty much all you need to know about how up to date I was on make-up styles. I never was one to wear so much. It just never felt like me. […]
Whispers of Innocence
Watching from the outside, one would never know anything was wrong. Day in and day out, she would smile and run out the door to play with her friends. They would do all the things girls did back in those days; sing songs, dance, and talk about boys. Side by side, they would stick out […]
A Spark
In third grade, my teacher assigned us the task of writing a creative story. Being a reader and one with a very vivid imagination, I wrote my first short story which I titled, ” The Vanishing Children”. Mrs. Starr explained to me that she enjoyed my story so much that she read it to two […]
A Million Pieces
It’s been a month and I still haven’t found all the words. They come in bits and pieces and then leave me in tears. The kind that you just can’t stop. We got Kippi Cat when she was just a baby. I was never even a cat person. It was my boyfriend now husband that […]
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