This is the piece that I wrote and shared at the Listen To Your Mother live show in April 2012 at the Walton Art Center in Fayetteville, AR. You can read more about Listen To Your Mother, a nation series of live shows that are a celebration of motherhood here. So I got a …
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Easter 2012 included family, friends, food, a helicopter and bird poop. Hallelujah!
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Arkansas blogger Kerri Case, author of “Damn You, Little Rock,” talks about writing as a method to prevent stabbing.
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I have the secret and it’s worked every time I’ve had a resentment. Trust me, I have far fewer these days (remember, just the one that I can think of) than I used to. Six years ago I couldn’t have listed on one sheet of paper all of the resentments I carried around.
You know what? Those people that I resented didn’t change. I did. My perspective changed and so did my life.
Read more »I’ve been flirting with getting in shape for well over a year now and it’s time to take some serious action to make this a true lifestyle habit. So for February I have made the goal to complete 30 thirty minute workouts in thirty days. Y’all know I don’t have the best track record with consistently blogging a project. Remember when I was going to post one picture every day for a year? That lasted something like a record-breaking 8 days.
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I should shower, but I’m not going to. Although, a case could be made for the sake of my hair. It looks like a grease bomb went off and the evidence is dripping from my scalp outwards. Your welcome for that visual.
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Meeting people online isn’t as weird as your mom says it is.
We have a close-knit playgroup that started on meetup.com. The moms I call my best friends probably never would’ve crossed paths if not for that group. They are all completely unique, very loving and unwaiveringly supportive of one another.
The next thing I know it’s January and I’ve moved to 30 hours per week. The original schedule already felt like full time anyway, so why not bump it up a little and make some extra cash?
That’s all well and good on paper. It’s the day-to-day living that I’m struggling with. You know, the stuff like cooking supper, bathing my child, bathing myself, doing laundry, doing anything after 5:00 p.m., etc.
If you’re looking for someone who eats real food right now it’s not me, but …
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My parents came for a (whirlwind, less than 24-hour) visit and we went to the new Crystal Bridges museum, which happens to be closed on Tuesdays FYI. So we sat outside and took pictures of ourselves. It was perfect.
Read more »Last year I plugged in a Christmas tree night light and called the decorating done. But then again we had a one-year-old who was waddling around the house pulling on everything.
I’d have been a fool to put up a tree.
This year she’s two. She knows that messing with mommy’s tree could land her in a full minute of time out and that is enough to keep her out of it.
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