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Words!
What are my thoughts worth? I’m guessing a lot less than what I believe they are. What are my actions worth? A lot more than I assume they are. Sometimes following through with action is so much more complicated than it looks from the outside. But here’s me acting out my thoughts through words. I…
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The Aging Process
I’m aging every day. If you met me today, I’d be older than when you’d met me before. That’s just a fact of life. No one is ever going to age backwards or get younger as days and years go by. So, why do we keep trying to do it? I remember a few months…
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The First Born
When I got pregnant with my first, I very obviously lacked the physical know-how to care for a human baby. I did not learn the importance of planning a family. Patience was never my virtue and the prospect of creating and raising a little life that would be a version of me sounded so enticing.…
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Emotion-ing in the presence of kids
Somewhere around a couple of weeks ago, the whole mental workload got to me, and I was dealing with some version of an emotional burnout, which again leads to meltdowns. And so, I had a few. I would work on it, try to keep it at bay, or once the meltdown happened, I would try…
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What Am I Even Doing? (Part 2)
Continuing with my thought process from last week, what am I even doing with my role as a mom? Am I doing enough? Do I have enough of a positive impact on my children’s lives that they will do well without me one day? What is their father doing in all of this confusion? What…
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A Pop of Colour
Every morning for the last few months has been rush-crazy. I’m counting in 3000 steps in the first 2 hours of my day. I’m cooking, cleaning, packing, washing, screaming, yelling, growling, mumbling, swearing, anything you can think of, I’m doing it. At the end of it, once everyone is out the door, I think I…