Second to last

This weekend has been relatively delicious.
In the background of all of it, I’m missing the girls, I’m stressed about them not being where they belong (here), and I’m so looking forward to them being home.  (to prove my stress over the situation, my face lovingly exploded in my worst break out in years.)  I don’t [...]

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My two/ nay, three/ bright spots (and counting?)

1)  Come January – which is really really soon – I will have a house cleaner!  I could likely afford it now, but we have so many rugs and wall hangings and decorative pieces of furniture to buy, it’s best to hold off.
2) Work is taking fun turns.
3)  My girls are coming home soon!  Woo [...]

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Bullets

Last night, I went straight from work to a friend’s house, where I spent a little over an hour chatting with a few women, nibbling on olives and sipping on weird vodka-centered concoctions. (Seriously weird – we had a bottles of fizzy lemonade, fizzy lime water, plain old lemonade, and pomegranate [...]

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Parent/Child Observations – Sunday, August 3.

I went for a quick walk into our village this morning to get me a cup of coffee.  It was around 9 a.m., and things were relatively quiet.  Right as I turned from a residential side street to the hustle and bustle of our village center (ha!), I merged in with a mother/daughter pair.  The [...]

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