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Keeping a Straight Face

Posted on November 30, 2007

Or, more aptly titled, Unable to Keep a Straight Face, and Loving Every Minute of It. Yesterday afternoon I was furiously trying to get some things done. I had an HTML email to get out for my boss, press releases to get up on my work blog for members, emails to return and, oh yeah, two highly intelligent and inquisitive toddlers to entertain and nurture. I’ll cop to accepting a bit of help from Shrek, allowing the girls to color and play trains with the entertaining quips of Donkey and Puss-in-boots to keep them fully engaged (read: away from my lap and the irresistible urge to “push da button ‘gain.”) I had just sent a test email to my boss when I heard a…

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It’s What Makes it so Perfect

Posted on November 29, 2007

I’ll be the first to admit that yesterday was a bad day. I hesitated to post about my funk, but felt it only fair to draw the curtain on that side of things as I am so open about everything else. Ironically another woman that I’ve found friendship with through blogging wrote a similar sort of, dark side revealing post about parenting, or perhaps more specifically, about being a mom. It isn’t easy. I love it, in fact I tremble when I think of what might have happened if I’d walked a different path, if I’d kept moving too fast, my chin thrust too far in back-off-or-I’ll-bite stubborn defense tactic. The simple truth is that I was supposed to do this and I wake…

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One of those days

Posted on November 29, 2007

You ever have one of those days when you just never quite catch up? Today was almost like that, except it wasn’t that I didn’t catch up, more like I held on by my teeth until I thought I’d drop and I looked up and it was 8:15pm. My shoulders and neck are one hot mess, knots and twinges. And I have this overwhelming desire to stomp my feet and pout. I’m sitting here trying to figure out what specfically caused my incredibly foul mood and I keep coming up empty. The girls were fine, wonderful in fact. I got home late and we played, tossing around a little ball and clapping and squealing at each catch. The house was easy, a quick unload…

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Wait a minute

Posted on November 28, 2007

Sean: You all set? Me: Yup. S: Great, see you in… We had agreed we’d hit the gym tonight. I was taking the first leg. Me: I’m just going to do 40-45 minutes or so and then run to the store. I just have to go change. S: Ok. I ran upstairs and grabbed a sports bra and t-shirt. I debated the pants versus shorts issue, my legs were shaved, but I wasn’t sure if I could find shorts that would feel right riding below my belly. Pants it was. I pulled on a pair of bright blue yoga pants. They felt incredible and for once the ties of the waistband weren’t hanging awkwardly in my crotch. I peeked in the mirror quickly to…

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If one of them flunks…

Posted on November 27, 2007

We could by buying three prom dresses in one year. It’s official, or as official as it can be before that small detail of actually checking the goods in person, we are having a girl. April 26th, or sometime around then, we’ll be introducing Briar and Avery to a sister and introducing Sean to a whole new dimension in estrogen domination.

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