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Tuesday Things
I was talking to my counselor a few weeks ago about how I was worried my depression was returning with a vengeance. “I feel myself cocooning”, I said. “I just want to snuggle up and read and knit and...
View ArticleOn the Election: Take Two
To the Trump supporters, those who don’t think it matters that much, who don’t viscerally fear the outcome, think I’m melodramatic for feeling this way, this post is not for you. Go away. I don’t want...
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Tuesday Things: I Am Grateful
Celebrating the kids’ Thanksgiving Mass/feast with some hand knit socks in the cranberry sauce colorway. Knitting: I’m working on my November socks still. I had my first one done quite early in the...
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Our Annual Advent List
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Each year I like to make an advent calendar full of activities that we can participate in as a family. This year I’m realizing that we’re BUSY before we...
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Tuesday Things
Isn’t it funny how some time with a good friend can absolutely change your mood? We’ve been gray and drizzly and it’s getting dark at 4:30 which is just a recipe for me to feel cranky and blah....
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Tuesday Things
This last weekend Jesse and I headed up to the cabin for a bit of a “before the madness of the season hits us” pow-wow. We did some Christmas shopping, had a very nice dinner with my brother and his...
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Not All the Socks
I’ve come to the conclusion that if you’re going to make a goal, it should involve something you like doing. Of all the goals I set in 2016, this is the only one I managed to achieve. But I crushed it....
View ArticlePicking a Word
It goes without saying 2016 sucked for a good many people. I don’t think you can be on FB for more than 20 minutes without seeing some meme lambasting this last year. But while it was awful for all of...
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Tuesday Things
I’m here! I’m here! I’m actually posting. January has been an absolute whirlwind. Besides the political craziness (which is all I’m going to say about that today), we’ve had our own little go around...
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Tuesday Things
Happy Valentine’s Day!!! I know it’s a controversial but I LOVE conversation hearts. The chalky sweet artificial thing gets me every single time. On to random news: Knitflixing: Violet’s sweater is...
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Tuesday Things
I can’t believe today is the last day of February. I know it’s a short month and all but I blinked and it was gone. My checklist of things to get done this month is woefully unchecked (so much for my...
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Tuesday Things
Arizona is gorgeous. Our Tuesday-Friday trip was perfect for some hiking, swimming, horseback riding and a very cool museum visit. Poor Jesse had to work, but the kids and I enjoyed our adventures...
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Tuesday Things
It’s definitely spring in Wisconsin. We were 70 degrees this weekend and have snow on the ground this morning. Someone should have known better and not packed up all the winter gear (yours truly). But...
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Tuesday Things: Good Stuff
So Abram basically owned this weekend. A soccer game (no pictures), a baseball game, the birthday party of some friends (no pictures), a lost tooth and his First Communion where I didn’t take enough...
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Missing It
Today is the kind of day where if the kids were still little and we still lived in our little old house, I’d walk them down to the park by the river. We’d take the long way home and stop at our...
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A Good Week
I don’t know if it’s getting older, or if it’s the politics of today, or some combination of both, but my tolerance for bullshit has reached an all time low. As has my threshold of caring about what...
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39 for 39
Today, I am officially one year away from 40. I’m planning on making the last year of my 30’s my best year yet. Here’s my list for 39: Mail a handwritten letter each month. Try the bullet journal...
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Another Tuesday Post
I am exhausted. In that emotionally, social kind of way that happens when life is good, and full, and busy but a day lying on the couch reading a good book or bingeing on a show sounds a little bit...
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Spinning a Bit
This summer has been full on go basically since school got out and I’ve loved every minute of it. We’ve had a wedding. I’ve hosted my sisters, their significant others, and a niece and nephew at the...
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South Dakota
My sister and I decided kind of on a whim, during the week of the 4th, that we should take her oldest and my two on a road trip to Mount Rushmore. After over a week of trying to get a place to stay in...
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