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Making the best of the holidays is what I have always tried to do. During my marriage, my ex would ruin each holiday with telling me how I didn’t pick the right gifts, or his mother would impress the importance of how much I spent on her rather than looking at the time and effort …
If you celebrate Christmas you may know how I feel. I’m a single mother, I try my best to surprise the boys on Christmas morning with the gifts they most want. Since they were little toddlers I always impressed upon them the importance of the day is the miracle of Jesus’ birth, family, and what …
For years I struggled with not being totally happy in my marriage. I had pockets of happiness, but throughout my marriage, I always felt like I was missing something. I’d ask myself was just me? Or, was it the fact that he was abusive? I’m sure the abuse did not help at all. In fact, …
My boys play sports. They have for a long time. We entered the winter sports season this past week after a two-week break. Each night after work I head to the school and pick the boys up to go home. Each day at exactly 2:45 pm “R” calls me at work to ask if he …
It is Thanksgiving weekend. We celebrated the holiday with our family, we spent time with family and friends on Friday, and now here we are another long weekend and what is there to do? I search and internet and BINGO! I find a great idea of a Saturday afternoon. The boys and I are heading …
I am getting ready for Thanksgiving! How about you? What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving day?
We were on the road again… the boys had off the Thursday and Fridaybefore Veteran’s day, so I decided to take off those two days too. And,once I did, we sat down and planned our next road trip. R said to me, it is Veteran’s day and Pop-Pop was in the Korean war so let’sdo …
I was told my eldest son “R” had ADHD when he was 7 years old. Before that time, R was a cute, smiling, bouncing (all over the house and yard) boy. He was always happy and such a good boy, yet he was a handful at the same time. R would fight me when putting …
What does loyalty mean to you? Think about that. How do you define loyalty? Do you consider yourself a loyal person and if you do, when do you say “that’s it” someone crossed a line and your loyalty ends? Is there a time when loyalty ends? Here is my take on this topic. I consider …
Omgoodness… what is going on with the Giants?? I have seen them in a lot of commercials tonight, but doing the “Dirty Dancing” commercial… what were they thinking??? I mean come on now, Eli giving him the “comere” finger and look only to have him run and be airlifted good day in the morning! I …