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Her first solo swinging experience produced mixed emotions of terror and exhilaration. *** Time // 3:51 p.m. Place // at work, about to leave for the day. Eating // nothing. Drinking // nothing. Watching // infusions. Reading // In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard. Wanting // some ferns for my living room. Thinking // about how I can read 30 pages a day simply in the time between parking my car and getting to my unit at work. Creating // a simple sweet cross stitch project. Hoping // to have some down time this weekend. Needing // to get connected at a church we both love. Anticipating //the arrival of orders of washi tape and essential oils I recently placed….
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At the end of each day I write down at least one GOOD thing that happened, then I share them all here monthly. *** 1 – Lots of work on Project Life; getting all caught up on chores with Meredith in the Ergo. 2 – Another day off with a mildly sick Meredith and visiting David at work. 3 – Working a full day plus reading while Meredith napped, taking her for a run, doing chores for the next day, and cooking dinner & sitting down to eat it as a family. Feeling like I’m getting this working mom thing down. 4 – Taking an evening nap with Meredith and totally relaxing. Being nominated for the ICARE award at work. 5…
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I discovered something awesome: putting Meredith in front of Photobooth. I had it on the chipmunk setting. I guess it has facial recognition, and it’s like it registered Meredith’s face, noted her already huge cheeks, and decided it didn’t need to alter them. Me: chipmunk. Her: skeptical, not a chipmunk. Oh look, one of her cheeks is a little bit puffed… She’s over it. This isn’t working. Oh wait. THERE we go.

It’s national infertility awareness week, and before it passes by I felt like acknowledging it because although I am a mother now, I come from a place of infertility. I have PCOS, and although ours is not a particularly long story, we did undergo two years of waiting, an unknown future, one horrific miscarriage, many different tests and medications, and in the middle of it all my husband had both of his hips replaced. At the end of the two years I found myself in the therapist’s office struggling with depression that I didn’t want to let out of control. Once you deal with infertility, in any form, you are changed. In some ways it scarred me. I still carry…
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1. This post is going to be random so I figured the title could be too. I’m sitting on the floor with Meredith playing around me, and she put her hands on the keyboard and that weird smiley came up. I’m rolling with it. 2. I’m home sick today. It’s weird though. The past two nights I’ve had fever, and it makes me feel terrible – aches, chills, lethargy, etc. But it’s gone by morning so I go to work. Well last night it was worse so I figured I’d get checked out. The only other symptoms I can possibly think of is the mild congestion I’ve had for a month, and an intermittent headache that’s more like pressure. I’m…
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