Trying to Have It All

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ShareI’ll never be SuperMom, but that doesn’t mean I can’t try and have it all. If there’s anything that turning 40 and watching your 39-year-old husband battle cancer teaches you, it’s that thinking you’ll always have later to live the life you really want is foolhardiness. Later is NOW and I’d rather not be the [...]

Hey! Where’d my blog go? And more important matters.

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ShareWhile I’m sure no one really noticed, *ahem* it has been over TWO MONTHS since my last post! Ack! Hellooooo… anybody out there? You’ve all gone on to more important things than checking in to see if I’ve come back from the dead, I know. After my first successful year of regular (okay, somewhat regular) [...]

Office Hours

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ShareWe’re already into week three of our new family routine and I’m just starting to emerge from the haze. Amoxicillin is owed part of the credit after two weeks of suffering a sinus infection. The rest, is owed to being able to finally catch-up on my to-do list. Not that I’ll ever get to the [...]

A Bird’s-Eye Perspective on Role Reversal

ShareI’ve only been working outside the home for three weeks and I’m already wondering how other working moms do it?! For the past six months, I’ve been working from home part-time while my husband waits to be allowed to return to work at Frontier Airlines after his bout with cancer. My work has been irregular, [...]

Mr. Mom Loses His Training Wheels

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Share It has been six months since I shifted gears from stay-at-home mom to working mom. The transition hasn’t been an easy one, and it just got a little harder. On Friday I started a full-time contract position with Starz Entertainment. This means, Danny is at home full-time with Reagan. Alone. Without a lifeline. Up [...]

Cure Your Soap-Addiction with Blogs

Soap Opera Digest

My list of the best-written mommy blogs for the newly-initiated blog reader trying to break their soap-opera addiction.

I Cheated on My Daughter

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ShareI’ve been toying with writing this post for days now. Not sure if I was comfortable exposing myself to the judgment that this topic brings with it. Fear of judgment seems to be a common theme in motherhood (see prior post here) and one that I’ve found myself embracing more and more since beginning this [...]

Forget Plan B. What’s Your Plan C?

ShareWas planning on posting something light-hearted before Danny got off the phone and told me of the latest dirt being sifted through the airline rumor-mill. For a short while there, I thought we were about to have to come up with a Plan C. We don’t have a Plan C. Do you? I have no [...]

Balancing Life Online and in Reality

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Share Oh, I’m sorry, did you come here looking for answers? Didn’t mean to mislead you. All I really have are questions. Maybe you can help me? Question #1: When you have just one more thing to get done on your computer, the daylight hours are dwindling and your kid hasn’t had any fresh air [...]

Jon and Kate’s Final Curtain Call?

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ShareYeah, I watched. But, I haven’t gone so far as to read any of the tabloids. I don’t know what the mystery woman looks like and I don’t care. What intrigued me as I watched the 5th season opener of Jon & Kate Plus 8 was how I could in an “Off-Broadway sense,” empathize with [...]