We don't have a close date on our new house yet but we know it should be sometime in June. I have a garage sale planned for May and have started that pile which has turned into an entire room full. Nine years ago I moved in here with my ex-husband thinking we would be [...]
Month: April 2013
Moving Forward
Last week I spent a lot of time explaining to Rebecca the recent events surrounding the Boston marathon bombings. It wasn't discussed in her classroom, unfortunately, it was only discussed on the playground, where you can imagine how the facts where a bit hazy there. The fact that I even have to have these conversations [...]
How Much Should You Sacrifice?
I sat with a friend recently while she vented/cried in my truck about her husband. They have been married for about five years and she works two jobs to be the primary bread-winner between the two of them. Her husband is an aspiring actor and they recently had to move back to the area because they [...]
Hanging Up His Dog Tags
When I met my husband he had just returned from his second deployment in Iraq. He is in the Army reserves and has been for some time. I remember sitting at our first date and he told me how much he loved being deployed. He had nothing holding him back in the states, he made [...]
First Thought Wrong
The Husband I are big fans of going to the comedy club. Recently we went and saw a comic that was divorced and shared all of the antics of his ex-wife. The thing that made this comic stand out was as much as he made fun of something he also threw in some good life [...]
Because sometimes you have to dance on top of the bar…
I have a friend whose family has become my own. Together we are all dysfunctional, crazy and a bit off but aren't most families? They are the family that has accepted me no matter what and doesn't question anything as long as I don't question them. This weekend all the bits and pieces of the [...]
Now is the time for good things
On the first of the month I told the Husband that I felt like April was just going to be a great month. It felt positive. It felt like big things were about to happen. Perhaps it was the hint of spring after this never-ending winter but something just felt different. Here we are three days [...]
Through My Mistakes 