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Parenting Indoors: Tricks to Manage Your Kids' Inner Energizer Bunny

Parenting Indoors: Tricks to Manage Your Kids’ Inner Energizer Bunny

Here in Houston, we’re under a tropical storm warning. Advisory? Threat? I’m really not sure anymore. This isn’t something I’m used to. I moved here from the desert, and it rained twice a year there if I was lucky. This morning it was raining so hard I couldn’t see more than the outline of my neighbor’s house across the street. I like to let the kids burn off energy outside when I can, because I…

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Parental Burnout Pt. 2 - Solution Options and What Worked for Me

Parental Burnout Pt. 2 – Solution Options and What Worked for Me

“How hard could it be to only have to worry about taking care of yourself?” I found myself asking. “Do you know what I would give to have even 48 hours where I didn’t have to meet anyone else’s needs, let alone a year?” We will touch on how awful that was again later. I did mention “dark” and “loathsome”, right? If you read my the first post I wrote about Parental Burnout (you can read it here),…

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Perpetually Behind - Lyrics by Fire In Wonderland

Perpetually Behind – Lyrics by Fire In Wonderland

Queue the music… aaaaaand… It’s that time again – the time where I update everyone with the big projects I’m working on. And I want to, I really do. But I find myself staring blankly at the blinking cursor and wondering what the hell happened to my August. Record screeches to a halt. I had big plans for August, up until my kids got sick, and school started, and my life got thrown into chaos once…

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When It Rains, It Pours

When It Rains, It Pours

I debated on publishing a post today, because it’s a holiday. Speaking of, Happy Labor Day to my US readers! Not sure I have non-US readers, but just in case. However, I wanted to make sure I kept a consistent schedule, so here we are. I did delay the post by two hours, since it’s a holiday. This morning I went for my usual run. It was thundering, which isn’t uncommon for this time of year, with…

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Running for Perspective

You may have seen last week, if you read, that I wrote about shedding my imposter syndrome by entering a writing contest. If not you can find that post here. I decided that I like posting on Medium, and I plan on continuing to do so. This week, I wanted to connect you to my post on medium about my insecurities running at 4:30 in the morning. I touch on the timing in my post Running…

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Running Against... Zombies?

This morning I clocked my seventh run with the Zombies, Run 5K app. My ultimate goal is a marathon, something that’s been on my goals list for a couple years, but I can’t even run a 5K the whole way through yet. I wanted to write about it for some time, because it’s a major part of my life at the moment – it’s on my schedule four days a week – but I didn’t have enough to say to merit a blog post.…

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The Minivan: A Surprising Two Month Saga

The Minivan: A Surprising Two Month Saga

I wanted to wait until my minivan was actually mine before I posted this. It’s been a while since I picked the van up from the dealership, just over a month now. This has been a two month long endeavor, though, and it deserves to be described as the saga it was. For anyone living under a rock, our economy has been a rollercoaster of sorts, and one of the issues that arose was the chip shortage…

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No One Ever Said It Would Be This Hard

No One Ever Said It Would Be This Hard

Something I never prepared for as a parent was routine sickness. I don’t mean chronic or terminal illness, I haven’t had that experience, and I don’t want to misrepresent the post. Also, if stomach virus symptoms make you queasy, don’t read on. By the time this blog is published, my rough night will be a few nights behind me. Hopefully that’s the worst it gets. All three of my kids have been…

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Reasons why I can’t sleep #281...

Brain: *thought*

Me: I don’t wanna think about that right now, it’s [insert one of the following: gross, scary, inappropriate timing, awful, etc.]

Brain: *repeats thought*

Me: Troll...

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THE ENNEAGRAM: This 9 Personalities Test Will Reveal Your True Personality Type

The Enneagram is a system of personality classification. The test is widely used in psychology and business, as many consider it to be a very useful tool for self-improvement and personal development.

👉 TAKE THE TEST HERE

Are you….

1 THE REFORMER.  2 THE HELPER.  3 THE ACHIEVER.  4 THE INDIVIDUALIST.  5 THE INVESTIGATOR.  6 THE LOYALIST.  7 THE ENTHUSIAST.  8 THE CHALLENGER. 9 THE PEACEMAKER

👉 REBLOG YOUR RESULTS

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✨Curious Zelda ✨

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Merida + Scottish twitter

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Words to use instead of “said” organized by emotion/intention

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Blast from the past.

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me: *is faced with a distressing situation*

brain: *shuts down*

me: no maybe we should actually deal with this

brain: ✔️read 7:26pm