Title: "Add Eggs, Then Beat in the Soap"

"Need clean-up, Mommy!" She yells these words as I see her blur by the door to our bedroom. This isn't a good sign, not with this toddler of mine. You never know what I will walk in and see.

I follow the trail of paper towels she has unrolled, I presume, to clean the mess but it also works to mark her trail.

Oh ( Read more... )

"At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules."
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Charlize Theron

"Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and ( Read more... )

It seems it is time for me to disappear from the polls on The Real LJ Idol.  Votes for me in this coming poll won’t matter as I am bowing out.  Hopefully it will help someone else move on to next week.

I have enjoyed this season and wish you all the best.  Thanks especially to Gary for all the time and energy he puts into LJ Idol.

I want to close ( Read more... )

Sometime, early this morning, while all of us were sleeping, my husband's cousin's husband slipped away ( Read more... )

Now, to preface this, let me say that I am "in a traditional family structure."  So I am not saying it is wrong to be so.

I was reading this article though:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/message-to-girls-about-re_b_1518849.html#s327357&title=Rev_Dr_Sharon

Which made me think more about WHY so many conservative people seem to be against ( Read more... )

“Motherly Missteps on the Road to Summer”

I need to tuck the snowman lamp away.  Here it is May and it’s still in my bedroom instead of nestling safely in a box in the garage.  I can’t help thinking that a good mom would have put it away months ago.

Holidays cluster into bunches, orbs of sweetness that cannot be ( Read more... )

Title: "Once Upon a Birthing Pool- A Nearly True Fairy Tale"

Once upon a time, a queen was holding the baby of her chief lady-in-waiting.  Her Little Prince asked, “Can we take this baby home?”  The queen found the idea delightful!  Little Prince was starting to run and climb and hide and the Queen missed having a warm, soft baby in her arms.

The ( Read more... )

There are two types of Pain in this world: Pain that hurts you, and Pain that changes you!  - Unknown

Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.  - Unknown

‎”Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down ( Read more... )

Title: "Dangerous Fruit"

Mom used to say they make you practice putting condoms on bananas.  I’ve never even seen a condom.  I read somewhere that you can blow them up like balloons.  It really sounds difficult if you have to put a banana inside a balloon.  Balloons have such small necks!  I wonder how long they give you to get the ( Read more... )