Monthly Archive: January 2010

My poor girl has hives. No real reason that I can discern, she’s been getting them since she was tiny, two or three times a year, she goes for a week or so with waves of hives. It’s more likely to happen in the winter, and once she starts, she’ll get them off and on …

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Day Three of She’s Not My Job in the mornings is going well… Jess was exhausted and refused to get out of bed today. Marc calmly told her that we were leaving in forty minutes and if she wanted to get dressed and have breakfast before school, she should get up. If she didn’t, he’d …

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It was touch and go for a while there… but Jess made it out the door without a fit. She was up too late last night and there were several moments when I know if I had been the one in charge we would have ended up screaming at each other. But Marc told me …

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Feeling a LOT better this morning… for a couple of different reasons. Yesterday, I spent the whole day with just Marc and my two kids – I think sometimes I get overwhelmed with having a thousand people here and just being able to relax with my family made things better for me. Plus we started …

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I’m not a girl who tends towards depression. I actually really don’t have a lot of patience with depression (freely acknowledging that I have no actual experience with clinical depression). Garden variety sadness isn’t my thing. I’m not perpetually happy, frequently (in the interest of honesty) I can be bitchy or irritable, impatient, lazy. I’ve …

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My belly is becoming an ever present member of the family these days… It’s really popped out and I find myself referring to it as something separate and distinct from myself. Sam isn’t the most sunshiney of creatures in the morning, and was pretty adamant that the only place he wanted to be was curled …

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