We haven't seen Rebecca since the last week of May. This week things that have been spiraling out of control with her and have hit an all time low. I fear they will go lower though. There is so much going on that I can't write about it, I don't know how to explain it [...]
Category: Marriage
What you don’t see in pictures
We sat on the back deck last night, in the dark, soaking in the last night of summer. I sipped a glass of wine, my husband smoking a cigar, the baby monitor on the table between us. I had that pressure building in my chest all day. It started with those memory photos that Facebook [...]
Building an immunity
One of the pros to putting Cora in daycare was for her to build her immune system up. To literally have my kid pick up a few colds and other germs so that her little body could learn to fight these things off. We have manage the flu bug, HFM disease and a few colds. [...]
What Did I Do Before Baby?
Before I had Cora, I would constantly hear parents, of little ones, say I don't even remember what life was like before I had my baby! What did I do with all my free time? First of all, I want to punch people who say that. Secondly, you remember. Thirdly, quit saying that. I remember [...]
Ups and Downs of Marriage
Forget parenting. Forget work decisions and career options. Forget trying to figure out a household budget. You know what is hard and sometimes just fucking weird? Marriage. You can literally want to love someone so hard and smother them to death all in one day. Or one hour. Sometimes you just have to take it [...]
Adulting through the bad days
There are so many times I want to sit down and write. I stare at that damn blinking line and blank screen. I want to say how shit my day was or how exhausted I am or how frustrated I am that day because no ones life is all rainbows and butterflies, including mine. But [...]
Turning 34
This past weekend we celebrated my 34th birthday. We celebrate in our household with a birthday week. You get to call all the shots, have extra glasses of wine, choose all the activities and get full control of the remote because birthday. It is amazing how a baby can alter or ruin all of this. [...]
This Marriage of Mine
You know, I had this post about how having a baby hasn't killed my marriage. People warn you of that, how having a baby changes your marriage. Of course it does! So does building a home, losing a job, changing jobs, getting married, losing a parent, moving states and a million other things. Everything that happens [...]
