Archive: My Family Might Be Crazy

• Aug 29, 2010

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  CDO*

  I was going through my Flickr stream, looking at old photos, trying to figure out why I uploaded some of them, when I realize something. A few years ago, I uploaded a picture of my Mom’s pantry for a Wordless Wednesday. I didn’t really explain it, I just put it out there for the world...
  
  

• Aug 16, 2010

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  Hunting and Gathering

  I tell myself every year that I am not going to make a big deal out of it this year. Of course, I’m a big, fat liar. It’s birthday season. Thursday is Star’s 5th birthday and just two week later it will be Bright’s birthday. I try to combine them so we only do a...
  
  

• Aug 13, 2010

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  Day 1/4745

  I know now why I was so upset over sending my kids back to school. It is just as quiet and strange here as I imagined it would be. Of course, since this only affects me, it isn’t really a good reason to keep them home. Bright loves school. She was so excited to go...
  
  

• Aug 09, 2010

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  Can we postpone this for another ten years?

  I had pretty much convinced myself that this was going to be so easy. I mean, I’ve already sent a kid to Kindergarten, right? I know what I’m doing. I’ve sent Bright to Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade. I’m practically a professional at sending a kid to school. I was worried about sending Bright....
  
  

• Aug 06, 2010

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  Coherent as I’m going to get

  I’ve been back home since Sunday but it has taken me this long to get comfortable again and be able to string together a coherent sentence of any type. That’s what happens when you leave your Husband home alone for 8 days. You get home and the house smells weird and there is laundry that...
  
  

• Jul 29, 2010

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  Her Id is messing with my Super-Ego

  Yesterday, whilst floating in the pool with the kiddos, Star and I had a fun conversation. She asked me who’s belly Uncle Chef came out of and I told her Grandma’s belly. After staring at me for several seconds, she crunched up her face and yelled, “Grandma was PREGNANT?” I quickly looked around at the...
  
  

• Jul 23, 2010

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  Twenty hours of home

  I’ve arrived home again for exactly twenty hours. This is just enough time to ditch the Husband, do all of the laundry and re-pack our suitcases. Oh- and pack up my laptop. I didn’t bring it with me to the beach and I cursed myself daily over my stupidity. I hate not checking my email...
  
  

• Jul 19, 2010

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  I married a hermit

  The next couple of weeks are promising to be the kind of weeks that make me deliriously happy and make my husband want to crawl into a corner and cry. I married a hermit. I didn’t know it at the time, but I did. Despite having known my husband for seven years before we married,...
  
  

• Jul 09, 2010

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  52 dates with my husband, plus one.

  It’s really impossible to neglect me. You can’t forget me and move on. You can’t pretend I don’t exist. And you really can’t pay more attention to other people than me. I will be right there, knocking on the back of your head to pull you back. Well, that’s how it works if you are...
  
  

• Jun 24, 2010

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  If I stay away from home enough, I might just fix myself

  I have this belief that if all else fails on the depression front, going up my mountain will fix me. It’s pretty much my fail-safe solution. It probably has to do with sleeping inside a tiny tent with the people who are driving you crazy. You go to sleep and there they are. You wake...