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Nobody’s perfect, right?  And here’s a list of my top five motherhood confessions just in case you had any doubts about me… 1 – I’m utter and complete crap when it comes to putting my kids to bed.  By the end of the day, I’m just done.  I’m tired, and while I’ll go thru the …

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My kids are magic.  I don’t know how, or why, exactly.  But somehow they manage to communicate telepathically on a level that I don’t think they’re capable of verbalizing yet.  They never have temper tantrums at the same time.  They never get sick at the same time.  They never demand 100% of my attention at …

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I like to read. A lot. It’s kind of my thing, Marc likes to work out, I like to curl up with a book. I’m the oldest of four (or six, depending on if you count stepsibs) and grew up with a fair amount of chaos. I can read in the middle of a hurricane. …

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Should I stay home or go to work?  Julie is almost two and a half, and I’m pondering whether or not to investigate getting a job and putting her in preschool/daycare on a part time basis.  Financially, I couldn’t make enough (after nine years out of the full time work force and five years at …

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I like politics.  I don’t closely align myself with any particular party, having migrated from a die hard Democrat in my teens and twenties into a much more thoughtful Independent voter in my thirties.  But regardless of how I vote, I have always, always loved voting. I registered to vote on my eighteenth birthday and …

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Marc and I took the three kids to Holden Days yesterday. Marc was actually there to help out at his business association booth, and I was wandering around with all three kids. It was a mob scene, with thousands of people and tons of noise and chaos. I don’t really like events like this – …

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“… the time when the things you thought you knew about the spiritual life turn out not to suffice for the life you are actually living.”     – Lauren F Winner Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith CrisisI like to read.  All kinds of things, from fiction (Nora Roberts, Elizabeth Berg, Maeve Binchy, Anne Rivers Siddens), …

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This really has been the best summer.  I think because Julianna is bigger and more verbal, it was the first one where I really had three fully participating, engaged kids.  We didn’t DO much.  My van is not happy, it’s still running but not fabulously, and we were really on a tight budget, and Marc …

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I had an utterly lovely weekend.  It wasn’t all hearts and flowers, but mostly, the weekend was fabulous and I’m feeling very grateful and content this morning.  Saturday morning, we got up bright and early and ran errands with all three kids all day long.  We hit the dry cleaners (getting lollipops for the kids, …

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I’m a stay at home mom. This is my job, in many ways. Raising these three children to adulthood. Teaching them how to live without me. In a real sense, that’s what I’m doing. Teaching them to be adults. Teaching them not only how to emotionally handle all that life will throw at them, but …

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