In a matter of four short years, I earned a Bachelor’s in Management and Organizational Leadership, became a Certified Childbirth Educator, a Certified Doula, and had two children that I breastfed through all of it. I went back to school when my third baby was just SIX DAYS new. When my middle child was just a few months old, I worked 40 hour weeks, attended school full time at night, then came home and ran a cake business that landed one of my creations in...
sk8ter boi.
Jules has been asking for a skateboard since his last birthday. He begged hardcore for Christmas and Grandma said that’s what she was going to buy him but she ended up choosing a different present instead. He cried about that, so we told him that we’d buy it for his birthday. I have no idea where the obsession came from,...
Closing out the Second Semester of Grad School
I can hardly believe it, but I managed to survive another semester of graduate school. The first one was hairy, so I whittled my schedule down to part-time this spring and it really paid off. I have an A in my Public Health Concepts and Practice course. I have absolutely no idea what kind of grade I’m carrying in my...
The Firehose at the Doctor’s Office
You know when something uber sucktacular happens and you think, That did not just happen. That did not just happen. THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN. Well? That happened to me today. I had an appointment with the new psychiatrist who works in the same group with my therapist. I see the therapist to talk about things, but the psychiatrist was...
Jolene Estelle’s 2nd Birthday
My baby girl turned two on Sunday. Though she’s well into toddlerhood now, I think she’s always going to be my “baby.” At two, she’s talking up a storm, pretend playing, climbing every scary play structure she can find, and pretending to read books. She certainly isn’t acting like a baby, but I can’t help but see her that way....
Another Disastrous Flood, But This Time We’re Safe.
Every since the last disastrous area flood in July of 2010, the one where our lower level flooded and left us searching for a home, I start to panic a whole lot when heavy rains pour in. That incident brought on one of the darkest times in my life. I started thinking crazy, crazy shit (like maybe if I believed...
Birthday Season.
This time of year is about nothing but birthdays. Well, finals, and birthdays. Jules, Jolene, and I are all Taurus’s (god help my husband!) so that means many festivities packed into a month. Jolene’s birthday is April 21st. Mine comes May 3rd. Jules arrived May 16th. But since we began having kids, my birthday has become an afterthought. It’s one...
What a Week.
This is one of those posts where I just talk about what’s been going on with me instead of trying to make some grand statement about some issue. The last seven days have been filled with exhausting highs and lows and this is still the place where I process all of that. I can’t edit myself for shit so this...
