Two years ago today, I was given a choice. I could keep my job, work ridiculous hours for little to no personal satisfaction or quit. Quitting wasn’t really an option since negotiating health benefits and unemployment would be impossible if I walked out of my own volition. So I refused to quit and my employer [...]
So now that the doctors have proclaimed me healthy, the foods I can actually eat have grown exponentially. What I haven’t mentioned to my doctors is that I never actually stopped eating those “no-no” foods; I just cut way back on them. I did give up alcohol for five, six ohhh seven years but whose [...]
A few weeks ago, amidst running around like a headless chicken meeting client demands, puppy x 3 demands and child demands, I realized that I was slowing reaching that point where my mind decides to take a vacation from reality. When that happens, I don’t explode in a fire of raging temper (been there). Nor [...]
Mother’s Day is a pretty big deal in my house and deservedly so. While I had a fairly quick and expedient delivery, I also popped 10 pounds, 9 and 1/2 ounces of kid into this world and feel that a yearly “YOU GO GIRL!” is really not too much to ask for in the grand [...]
Few concerts deliver the musical Koolaid quite like the Prince concert I attended this past February. Of course, as a Prince fan since that first forbidden glimpse of Purple Rain in 1986 on HBO and subsequent purchase of the soundtrack, I knew I would enjoy the show. What I did not expect was the almost [...]
I believe in the American Dream. There, I said it. I admit it. And, if I’m being totally honest here, I live the American Dream, too. I am determined to provide my child with a better upbringing than my parents were able to provide for me. I absolutely believe that with hard work, courage, determination, [...]
I have a list a mile long of things my Memaw made me do as a child that she swore I would thank her for someday. And while some of the items on those list are now things I’d rather pay someone else to do than actually do myself, writing a proper letter is one [...]
For every well thought out reason a parent chooses to homeschool their child, I’d like to believe that for another, it’s a catalyst. At least, that’s how my adventures in homeschooling began. The irony of it all is that a few weeks before, an old pal – you know the kind, the person you talked [...]
Wow has time flown by!! The last 16 days have been crazy, to say the least. We found a new vet, the puppies tested positive for giardia, and we’ve spent the last two weeks perfecting two weeks and two days perfecting our puppy dosage via syringe technique. Luckily, these are smart puppies and they quickly [...]
Let me just put it right out there. We LOVE Big Dawgs Rescue and the owner and facilitator, Joanne. We have worked successfully with Second Chance who allowed us to bring Mimir and Kodi Bear into our lives and we are forever grateful to them. We honestly thought we’d never love another rescue as much [...]
