Archive for the ‘Motherhood’ Category
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

I have a really hard time turning on the TV. I don’t know, it’s not that I expect everyday to be educational and homespun and full of finger painting, but it seems like once the TV has been turned on it’s near impossible to turn it back off. It sets a course for the day [...]
Monday, December 12, 2011
You know the one. The one that before you’ve moved a single muscle of your body, your stomach has already sunk. The one where the guilt strikes and it strikes hard. The one where you cry and call your husband, even though you think the baby’s fine. The one that makes you vow to never [...]
Thursday, October 27, 2011

I’m in one of those yearning seasons lately. Wanting to see the more in life through the 1:00am nursing, the menu planning and the time-out battles. I don’t have an office. I don’t have a team of project managers reporting to me. I don’t ‘take lunch’. Heck, I don’t even pee with the door closed. [...]
Monday, October 3, 2011

I ran 8.5 miles yesterday. True story. It was probably my worst run pace-wise (14 min miles, what?), but I still freaking did it. DanO and the boys dropped me off at the lake in our neighborhood, then I ran across two suburbs to my in-law’s house where the boys were waiting to congratulate me. [...]