House Pain

House Hunting: It’s not at all what Pinterest and ‘House Hunters’ sets it up to be. It’s frigging exhausting! do we/dont we what do we absolutely need? we do NOT need THAT, but we need that the backyard is where? the view is of what?! we need/we want it costs HOW MUCH?! and the big […]

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Time After Time

It’s only taken 7 years and three therapists for me to not loose my cool when my kid has a fit. I don’t take it personally. I take it personally afterwards feeling like somehow my parenting skills – or lack thereof – have inadvertently caused said fit. But he doesn’t have to see the afterwards […]

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Being a Grown Up

I’m so not prepared to be a grown up. My mom should get all her money back from the Catholic H.S. she put me in. Like, seriously. So my husband and I are beginning the terrifying adventure of buying a house. To make it even more fun, he’s out of the country while the search […]

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Weighty Weight

I walked this week. I’m trying to do it enough to make it a habit. I didn’t have active role models growing up, so now i need to be that for myself and my kids. One motivating factor to get out of the house this week was to get away from my kids! They were […]

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Glee-less

Holy shit. I’ve watched Glee from the beginning and was just as shocked as everyone else when Cory Monteith passed away. It was so tragic and sad. In the end, I didn’t lose sleep over it or anything, it was just a really sad unfortunate story. I was going to watch the tribute episode when […]

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Day Four

setting: My house a.k.a. The Jungle Day four of my new exercise and food choices and my body is rejecting it all. *pant pant* I’ve walked each day for the past four days for a moderate to ridiculously brief amount of time. My ass has been on the sofa when not running about the house […]

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Reality Check

I had the fat momma reality check today. In case you’ve never ever read my stories or have no idea who I am here’s a factoid tidbit for you. I’m big. Not like “oh, you put on some weight after the kids, it’s ok”, but like, “Damn! Did you play for the Raiders?!” Big. Being […]

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