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random ramblings

Truthful Tuesday: Would You Want “Do-Overs” In Life?

February 2, 2010

My pal Elizabeth is back with her Truthful Tuesday topic, and being a supporter of friends, I’m joining her again this week. This week’s question is…

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Poor Self-Esteem & a Dove Giveaway

January 25, 2010

I’m a mom. I’m a therapist. I’m a woman. And I’m someone who has suffered from bad self esteem in the past. I’m proud to admit this because it’s proof that I’m not perfect and not always confident. There were many times growing up that I felt inadequate on the outside. I criticized myself and was sometimes convinced that others were thinking those very same thoughts about me.

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Getting to Know You

January 24, 2010

Since my switch, I’ve decided that I am no longer going to post on Sundays. Since the thing I am working on most this year is regaining balance, I’ve decided that 6 days of posting a week is a better balance between the blog and my family time.

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Welcome to My New Home!

January 19, 2010

It was a long night, but so worth it. I have lots to say already about my move from Blogger to Wordpress. Unfortunately, I don’t have the energy to write about it at the moment. (If you could see the clock, it’d say 1:15am. Yes, I’m normally sleeping right now, but am trying to get my new home as unpacked as I can before all of you come to visit).

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Today Seems Like a Good Day to Move!

January 18, 2010

Normally I hate Mondays. Sure the Bachelor is on, but Mondays always remind me that we are five days away from the weekend again.
But I don’t have case of “the Mondays” today! It’s MLK Day, which means my hubby has off of work (I still don’t understand why his company gives him this day off. [...]

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The (Un)Experienced Mom’s Frustrating Week in Review & A Peek At This Week

January 17, 2010

Normally on Sundays I do my “Sunday Post” which consists of the results from the previous week’s reader’s poll. Don’t worry – I’ll have those results in another post going up later this week or next week. Instead, I am doing a week-in-review post that will also update you guys on plans for this upcoming [...]

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Attention Bad Drivers…Help a Mom Out!

January 16, 2010

Driving is stressful enough with the inability to control everything around you. And then the stress reaches a whole new level when its your child behind the wheel driving. So these bad drivers should just do all of us moms a favor and stay off the road!
The Directionally-Challenged Driver: You might think this driver is the [...]

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More Friday Fun: Fragements and 5 Questions

January 8, 2010

In effort to save space (and because I am feeling just a bit lazy today), I am going to combine my other 2 favorite Friday memes. (If you haven’t taken part in mine, see the post above this one!).
First I’m joining Mrs. 4444 for her Friday Fragments which allows me to purge my random thoughts [...]

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Reader’s Poll: New Year’s Resolutions

January 3, 2010

This reader poll question last week was:Do you make New Year’s Resolutions?
Here were your answers:Yes, and I usually keep them = 18%Yes, but I usually break them = 31%Nope, don’t make them 50%
According to this Psychology Today report, the top three resolutions made by Americans were to lose weight (20%), stop smoking (16%), and spend less (12%). [...]

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I’m Sick, You’re Sick, We’re All Sick

December 29, 2009

This fall has been a rough one in our house. And from the sounds of it, it’s been rough in everyone else’s house, too. We just seem to be passing colds around to each other. It’s like a domino effect…one person gets sick, then the next, then another and so on until it’s made its [...]