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Sunday, April 28th, 2013I am 20 days into the long term sub experience and it is going very well. No, things aren’t as smooth as they were before but I am so much happier. I am genuinely exhausted at night. I no longer search for things to do to preoccupy my mind during the day. If this experiment [...]
A New Adventure
Monday, April 1st, 2013As of today I am the long term sub for a second grade classroom at my kids school. The current teacher had some health issues and needed to take leave. I will be subbing for 39 school days. I think this will be a good trial for our family. I know it will be a [...]
#40 Realized
Friday, March 8th, 2013May 31, 2000 the very first episode of Survivor aired. I was hooked. I loved the show. I have not missed an episode since. I have always dreamed of being on the show but as you may or may not know my journey through infertility started in 2001. There were other dreams I wanted to [...]
Better Late than Never
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013I am finally getting around to writing about my 2013 resolutions and my 2012 resolution review. That is a clear indication of how busy I am. I want to write more, I love the blog and all the details of the kids life it holds but I struggle to find time to write actual meaty [...]
Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012Today would have been my Father’s 61st birthday. Happy Birthday Dad, I love you. In two day it would have been Elizabeth’s 10th birthday. Happy Birthday Elizabeth, I love you. Recently I was talking to my Mother and she was telling me how she still says “good night” to my Father everynight as she lays [...]
Big City Girl
Thursday, June 7th, 2012I don’t generally consider myself a big city girl but whenever I am in a small town it is painfully obvious to me. Not that I don’t’ enjoy visiting, but I can tell you without a doubt that I would not ever want to live there full time or retire there. I live in a [...]
Undesirable behaviors
Friday, May 18th, 2012You know that moment when you realize that your children have some undesirable behaviors and you know exactly where they come from? I do. Good thing summer is almost here and we can work on them all together.
This is IT
Thursday, May 17th, 2012Today was the last day that I dropped off one of the Brown children at Shadow Rock Preschool. Today was the last day I picked up a child from Shadow Rock Preschool. Today was the day I hugged two very important people in the Brown family history and tried to thank them for all they [...]
Top 10 Reasons I haven’t been blogging
Thursday, March 1st, 20121. Kimberly 2. Annie 3. Mimi 4. Paul 5. family time 6. PTO 7. subbing 8. volunteering 9. Girl Scouts and Girl Scout cookies 10. taking a breath in between everything I have been so busy lately. I haven’t spent a full day at home since I was ill. I barely spend several hours a [...]
Finally feeling better
Monday, February 20th, 2012I can’t think of the last time I was ill for 2 plus weeks. It was a very long time. Finally I have my old energy back, I even subbed a couple of days last week. I am so thankful for my good health.
Making Plans and Leaning on Fate
Thursday, January 26th, 2012When I wrote my resolutions for the year I wrote about making a decision regarding my employment in the future. This was something that I don’t take lightly. I have not worked for 8 1/2 years because I believe that it was what was best for me and my children. Now faced with the facts [...]
Best Laid Plans
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012It is time for me to reflect on my resolutions from 2011. Time to decide what worked, what didn’t, and if they are still a value I should pursue. Family budget: We have certainly paired down our spending a lot. We are living debt free and that is wonderful. Should we move to completely cash [...]
Christmas Cards
Friday, December 16th, 2011It’s almost Christmas and for the first year ever I am only just now sending out my Christmas cards. I tried really hard to get them out sooner but things just didn’t work out. Christmas cards are one of those special holiday things to me. I love to send them around the globe and know [...]
TV Madness
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Everyday when the kids sit down to watch a show they start one of the most annoying games. One child will say, “in every showing I am ________.” Basically they choose a character from the tvshow/cartoon/movie to “be”. Inevitably there is an argument over who is who and pouts about the fact that “you get [...]
Blessed Beyond Belief
Monday, September 26th, 2011Often I hear people talking about my life like it is some dreamy life. I roll my eyes at them and brush it off wondering why they can’t see what I see. Don’t they see that my house is only clean for a couple hours a week after it has been cleaned? Can’t they see [...]
10 days
Monday, September 26th, 2011Wow. . . 10 days without an update on the blog. Life certainly is busy these days and the blog is one of the last things that gets worked on when I am overworked. Honestly, not a whole lot has been going on. Kids are going to school. Paul is going to preschool. The kids [...]
So Squishy
Friday, September 9th, 2011The other day I was sitting on the couch with the kids and they were fighting over sitting next to me. I didn’t understand what was going on at first and asked why they needed to sit right next to me. Here is the responses I got: “Because you are so squishy.” “Because you are [...]
Every Action Speaks
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Often I can find myself just going through life, getting by and not remembering that every action speaks. I think this is something we all do. It is hard to be in control every second and to be the person you want to be every second of every day. Sometimes I speak to harshly to [...]
Emotions Running High
Thursday, August 18th, 2011I remember the day I realized Annie and Kimberly would be going to preschool. I recall how I felt letting them go, how I was far more worried for how they would handle the world than for how I would. Next Tuesday Paul has his open house at preschool so we can both go check [...]
Spinning in circles
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011I recently had the opportunity to participate in heartsy.me. I thought it would be fun and that I might sell some bags and get enough money to buy the gorgeous sewing machine I had been dreaming of. I had no idea how my feature would be received and nothing prepared me for what happened. I [...]
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