Cleaning Out My Closet

Cleaning Out My Closet

I had an epiphany that my life would be a lot easier if my sweatshirts were not piled way up over my head. Sweatshirt placement in your closet shouldn’t be life changing, but in this instance, it was and maybe it will change your life too. Living with things in a...

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Long Days, Short Years

Long Days, Short Years

When babies are little, veteran parents feel compelled to say to the new parents “the days are long, but the years are short.” They advise you to savor every moment while your kids are little.  As a new parent, I nodded and agreed and felt like there was no truer...

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Call Me a Liar

Call Me a Liar

The boys were already downstairs making noise before I even washed the pillow creases off my face. Noise that just so happened to be music to my ears… Floating up from the kitchen was the melodious notes of the dishwasher being emptied and the dishes being put away by...

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Let’s Just Forget It

Let’s Just Forget It

They were late. Again. My sisters were angry. I was annoyed. We really shouldn’t have been surprised that my parents didn’t even leave yet for the 35 minute drive when they should have been just pulling into the driveway. It didn’t matter that they were the guests of...

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Presently Disinterested

Geez, I hope that was never me. There was a dad “playing soccer” with his small child. I use the term “playing” loosely because he was really looking at his phone while he absently kicked the soccer ball back to his son. He didn’t take his eyes off the screen for a...

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