Tag: losing my mind
my struggle with stuff
These past few weeks I’ve been struggling with keeping the house together. It seems no matter how much I clean, the mess just does not seem to go away. It got me thinking. I know other families whose homes always seem so clean and more importantly so much cleaner than mine. I know I have [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2010 under Growing Pains, Life - As I Know It.
Tags: habits, happiness, health, learning curve, losing my mind, organization, trying new things
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gift exchange
Jerry has a fairly large family and each year for Christmas, they pull names for a gift exchange. The idea is to make sure everyone has gift at the family gathering and they set a price limit so no one has to spend too much. It’s an idea I’m still getting used to and an [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under Family, Growing Pains, Life - As I Know It.
Tags: Chirstmas, fail, Family, gifts, Holiday, losing my mind, Memories
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have you seen my brain?
because I would really like it back! Yesterday, I mentioned how when one thing gets off track, things sort of fall apart around here. Yeah…… well, it is so plainly clear that I am the one thing which is off track these days. I think I have finally lost my mind – not in the oh [...]
Posted: November 20th, 2009 under Life - As I Know It.
Tags: fail, losing my mind
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Wednesday
Yesterday was Wednesday. Wednesday. Yes, Wednesday. Why is that important? Well, you see, for the past 3 years Wednesday has been the early out day at my kids’ school and yesterday was no different. Wednesday is the early out day – has been for years now. Wednesday. Early out. Somehow, yesterday, I either forgot what [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under Family.
Tags: fail, kids, losing my mind, Parenting
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growing pains
Kids aren’t the only ones who feel them. I do too. My oldest son just turned 12 and I swear I don’t know what has happened to him this week – maybe it’s the tween thing, maybe he isn’t getting enough sleep (for the record, he is currently not doing any scheduled activities outside of [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2007 under Family, Growing Pains, Parenting.
Tags: Family, kids, learning curve, losing my mind, Parenting
Comments: 4
temper tantrums
oh how glad i am that my monkeys have out grown those!!! i was over at Rocks In My Dryer and i read this post which brought back a whole lot of memories…. ONCE upon a time, there was a beautiful little girl who was the queen of the land of tantrums. she had traveled [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2007 under Memories, Parenting.
Tags: Family, funny thing, kids, losing my mind, Memories, Parenting, temper tantrums
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a plate too full
it has been way too long since i have been able to sit down and just write. the main reason being i started summer classes. i was really excited to take a summer English course. i was all signed up only to learn, last minute, it was going to be canceled due to low enrollment. [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2007 under Growing Pains, Life - As I Know It.
Tags: homework, learning curve, losing my mind, overwhelmed, school
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