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Archive for December, 2006

The Mother-Daughter Dance

After a long six-year battle with lung cancer, my mother finally went to her resting place with the Lord on July 26, 2006 at about 10:05 in the morning.  I was present in her hospital room when she passed; in fact, as she took those last “fish out of water” breaths, I stroked her hair and told her [...]

Have Patience? With A Precocious Toddler?

Okay, mothers, I need some help here…
They call them “The Terrible Two’s.”  When I was single, I laughed when I heard the term spoken among mothers.  When I became a mother, people would often say, “Just wait until the Terrible Two’s!” at which I would reply, “No, they’re not terrible, just challenging.”  I didn’t want to [...]

A Health Issue I’m Nervous Writing About

As you can tell, I haven’t been blogging for very long at all.  I try to write about topics that concern us women gaining and imparting wisdom relating to different areas of our lives.  I have been comfortable writing in this blog so far - I don’t feel like I’ve disclosed too much that will [...]

Weekly Weight Loss Update - It’s Christmas!

It’s Christmas Day!  What am I doing here?  I made the macaroni and cheese, dressing, and cabbage.  My husband prepared the turkey and the sweet potatoes.  We’ve got egg nog, wine coolers, cranberry sauce…And no, we did not have guests at our home this Christmas.  It’s just my husband, my daughter and I eating all this food!  (And [...]

PC vs. Mac

Last Friday, December 15th was the end of the fall semester at the high school at which I teach.  I get two weeks off from teaching (I always treasure this perk) and it is always my hope that my time off will be restful as well as productive. 
 
Restful it’s been…productive it’s not.  Something happened with [...]

Priceless Friendships

My child-“hood” was not a pleasant “place” to be for me.  For me, that space lacked rooms in which to hide when I was ridiculed, bullied, and rejected by my peers.  I was always on the outside looking in.  It was sometimes a little scary, a lot of times lonely.  I frequently felt ugly as [...]

Weekly Weight Loss Update

Okay…Here is my weekly weight loss update…
 
I recently posted that during this joyous Christmas and New Year’s season, it was my goal to ensure that I didn’t gain any weight.  Well, I can honestly say that I’ve met that goal!  My poundage has not increased!  In my mind, that’s very good considering that during this [...]

A Time For Reflection

Today was the last day of the first semester of this academic year.  I can say honestly, I truly need the break.  Papers, tests, quizzes, exams - if it weren’t for the grading aspect of my job, I’d love it to pieces.  I still love it to pieces; I just wish some of these pieces would go away sometimes.
I [...]

The Power of Change

My husband is a writer, among other things. He would tell you that his is a gift that doesn’t come naturally – that he has to work at perfecting his verse and prose. I have, in fact, had the opportunity to witness his writing processes …he’ll construct a rough draft, read it, edit it constantly, [...]

Mistakes ARE Opportunities!

As most of you can see, I am new to blogging, so I do a lot of research on the subject. One of my favorite blogging sites is ProBlogger by Darren Rowse. I was reading his “18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging,” in which he stated,
“Learn to see mistakes as opportunities.”
This statement resonates with me, since [...]