My grandmother was right.

The older you get, the faster the days go by.   
I’ve tried to ignore the fact that I am in my last hours of my 30’s but the fact is I am going to be 40 tomorrow, like it or not.  And I do not, just for the record. 
Every ten years I go through this [...]

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Underfoot

So my husband has the next two days off, going into a long weekend.  That’s five days of him not working.  I don’t know if I can stand it. 
I’ve gotten so used to him being up and out of the house by the time I get out of bed each morning, that this morning, he [...]

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Whistlers Mother

I knew that it would happen.  That didn’t stop it from happening. 
And because I knew that it would happen, and it happened, I was able to have some perspective on it. 
See, Spawn bucks me at every turn when it comes to homework.  I know from talking with my friends that this is normal, to experience [...]

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Some days are just an insanity sandwich with extra mayo.

I had no idea when I gave birth that it would be a process I would repeat, with the same child, every morning before school started. 
Honestly.  That’s what it feels like. 
Spawn was absent from school yesterday with a cough and fever, and if it hadn’t been for the fever I would have sent the kid [...]

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Tape Delay

I’m having one of those days where my brain and my mouth aren’t in sync.  I know what I want to say but I’m having trouble getting the words to form in my mouth.  And I’ve found myself totally losing my train of thought in mid-sentence. 
It’s Monday, isn’t it? 
– Mox

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Full circle.

Two years ago this upcoming October, I was standing on the sidewalk outside my uncle’s lanai, trying to keep a clear cell phone signal as I talked with a woman who wanted to interview me for a position back home.  It was fall break, and we were in Florida.  The interview would have to wait [...]

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When it’s too hot to go fishing, it’s just too damn hot.

I know that I’ve made it pretty plain here that I prefer hot weather over cold weather, but even for me this heat wave is getting ridiculous.  No, scratch that.  It’s beyond ridiculous. 
How ridiculous, you ask? 
So ridiculous that last night I sat and watched about 20 minutes of The Day After Tomorrow just to cool [...]

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Fun and games

Back last Christmas, after my extended family had waded through what amounted to be a horrible year, my husband and I were invited to my cousin’s house on Christmas Eve after church.  It was obvious that there were some holes in the group that evening, but it was good to be with family all the [...]

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Thus beginneth another week.

There are times when Spawn will climb up into my lap and snuggle in under my chin, and I have to remind myself that these moments won’t last forever.  That one day the kid will be sixteen and spewing vitriol in my direction, and hopefully I will have banked enough of these little snuggly moments [...]

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Hold on loosely

Sometimes things that have no direct effect on me still manage to piss me off. 
Case in point:  my cousin, who has a 23-year-old daughter just finishing college and getting a teaching degree.  My cousin’s daughter is newly engaged and has a job and is moving on with her life.  However.  My cousin and her husband [...]

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