Flashbacks
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Huggies #17 – Tiny Wittle Diapers
I will never forget coming home from the hospital with a new baby in my arms. I felt as happy as I’d ever been, but also more vulnerable than I’d ever felt before.…
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Weddings Ain.t For Weenies
This post is the second installment of a series of posts that tell the story of my seven year marriage. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed living it… ***********…
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Our First Place
Since my book, “Laugh. Fight. Stay Married,” didn’t sell, I’ve been left wondering what to do with this giant draft. Years worth of writing would just go to waste sitting on my laptop.…
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Reunited and It Feels So Nice
When Chris was in college, one of his best friends was a guy in the same program as him named Tramaine, or Tray. Tray was, like Chris, wild but with a good heart.…
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Really Good Days
Do you ever have those really good days? Days when the sun is shining and your hair looks good and no one pitches a fit and everyone takes a nap and your husband…
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Happy 3rd Birthday, Bean!
Tomorrow, June 1, is Bean’s 3rd birthday. But I’m too excited to wait the one hour and fifteen minutes to post this on his actual birthday. We are celebrating tomorrow morning with Bean’s…
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Scheduling the Unschedulable
So many people told me when I was pregnant with my first baby that babies can’t be scheduled. They would laugh when I would tell them about books I’d read about how…
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How to Sleep When the Baby Sleeps
Late in my pregnancy with Bean, the advice changed from how to survive my pregnancy to how to survive the first few months as a new mom. Without a doubt, the most frequent…
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Register My Frustration
REGISTER MY FRUSTRATION The two times Chris and I have come the closest to divorce would be the time we registered for our wedding and the time we registered for our first baby.…
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Womb to Breathe
Some of the happiest times in my whole life were the two weeks at home after both my babies were born. For nine long months, we had anticipated the arrival of our first…
