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Sometimes parenting is the last thing you want to do when you get home. Sometimes the voices in your head say things you don't want to hear. Sometimes all you want is to sit outside and listen to the birds. Sometimes there are no birds. Sometimes there are only mosquitoes. Sometimes anger overrides all. Sometimes being a failure seems like the only ( Read more... )

He isn't little anymore and sometimes that makes me so sad. There he is growing up in front of my eyes. Right before my very eyes, growing up and away ( Read more... )

First week of school for the boy and he loves it, but it makes him very tired. And tired, for him, always means easily upset. Tonight he has already cried at me three times ( Read more... )

I just realized that next year, Scott and I will have been together 20 years. That will officially mark the moment when I will be with him longer than I was without him. I don't feel that old, but I guess no one does. Time passes us by but it never feels like it does ( Read more... )

For awhile now I have been realizing that Indy just doesn't say as many funny things as he use to. And that has made me really sad, I enjoy writing up all the cute things he says. And it is yet another reminder that he is growing up, growing out of the phase of his life that I have enjoyed so so much ( Read more... )

Day 6 of kindergarden, and he didn't cry. He simply walked in the door and disappeared down the hall, without a care in the world ( Read more... )

That was on a nike billboard during the Atlanta Olympic Games ( Read more... )

The sale at Borders is a joke, I got more off being a member of their rewards program than I do at the current sale ( Read more... )

So I finish my day today with some really good salsa, and some mediocre chips. With the kitten in my lap purring, and watching my new favorite fun show, TerriersToday I spent a lot of time getting the boy to calm down. He was very sensitive today, and I am noticing a trend that concerns me. He won't do things if he is afraid of doing them wrong. ( Read more... )