I was always "the skinny girl". Even at nine months pregnant I never went over 120 pounds. And I lost the baby weight immediately. So immediately that I actually wore normal clothes home from the hospital. So of course I got all of the jokes from my friends and how jealous they were that I lost the weight so easily ( Read more... )

For over a year now we've only had one car. With me working from home or not working, it wasn't a big deal. Most of the time. But it also was an occasional fight as well. Robert was tired of waiting for me to pick him up at work and I resented being left at home with no way to go anywhere when he took the car. It became just one more thing for us ( Read more... )

No one taught me to cook. My mom has never been a fan of cooking and until we got our first microwave the crock pot was how she made most meals. Or pasta. or we went out to eat. My dad was a truck driver so most of the time it was just my mom and I at home. My dad cooked when he was home. When we got a microwave pretty much everything was cooked in ( Read more... )