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Back in the Social Media Saddle
I’ve been MIA. I admit it. I’ve been missing from this Blog and from many other matters. I could blame it on Lent or Easter, or my sister having her 2nd baby (adorable boy) or family being here over a month etc., but the reality is I often get burned out from all the social…
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Crumbs & Fumes
Seven years ago I started a journal for my son. I can’t take credit for the idea as I read about legacy writing somewhere else and decided to do the same. It’s a journal ‘to him’ and ‘for him’ to open when he’s older – perhaps at 18. Some is just fun stuff and milestones.…
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Surpassed by a 10 year old
A new twist on the birthday candle wish…
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Breaking the Stereotype of Stage Moms
I often joke in a self-deprecating sort of way about being a “Stage Mom”. And let’s be honest here, the term has extremely negative connotations. From Toddler and Tiaras to Dance Moms, the term “Stage Mom” often refers to Mothers who are so pushy for their children to become ‘stars’ that they lose sight of…
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Are we Thankful for Thankfulness?
Every so often my son leaves a cute little note after he eats his served breakfast. Sometimes it’s on a Post-it note, sometimes a napkin, and a few times just a torn corner of lined paper from those spirals. Either way, I cherish and save them in scrapbook boxes or files. As I was cleaning…
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Woman Cave
It’s been a long time since I read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. I often wonder if she preempted men on the whole ‘man cave concept’, long before it was ‘cool’ and long before Restoration Hardware and flat screen TVs. It’s important for a person to have a ‘room of one’s own’ or…
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Your Resume or Eulogy?
So much for my daily Blog aspirations. But I’m back. ‘Back in the saddle again’ as they say. That’s right, a spider bite isn’t going to take me down, but it sure did try, more on that later. Today’s title comes from a sermon I heard earlier this morning. “Should we live for our resume or…
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Lessons from a Labor Day Lemonade Stand
This Labor Day in the new neighborhood cul-de-sac where we now reside, a group of kids got together and pulled-off a surprisingly ‘successful’ lemonade sale. After another mom and I helped the initial ‘investment’ of lemons, water, props, cups and other logistics, the 8-10 kids that regularly play outside came together and set-up, designed the…
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Pretty car with a weak engine – that’s “Nice”
I recently heard a sermon from a well-respected Ph.D. psychologist and pastor regarding the difference between being ‘nice’ vs. being kind. I know what you’re thinking, “Alright…here she goes, she mentioned the word ‘pastor’, this is going to be another annoying Biblesque Christian Blog.” Nope, not at all. Oh, I’m not going to lie. I read the…
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Day 2. Now what?
Day 2. After a slight ‘high’ of getting a few emails and messages: “Hey! How do I Follow your Blog?” etc. etc. I feel a panic combo with a side of suburban lull that won’t quit even after 4 K-cups of French Roast. ‘I’m a Blogger’, I say to myself. I really did it. BFD…
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And so it begins…
A few years ago, a former colleague sent me some sites to start a Blog. Since then, countless others have suggested I start one. And so, today, the 1st of September, I finally did. It’s fitting that I am starting this Blog in Texas where I was supposedly conceived in Corpus Christi during my father’s…