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Damn, I had forgotten how isolated and depressed I can feel being a stay at home mom. I am reminded of when I was pregnant with Nathan; I was the lead party chef supervising a small group of women on the graveyard shift. They were always kind to me, and I wanted to be the [...]
' September 22nd, 2009 at 04:59pm 11 comments
Thanks everyone. You are wonderful, all of you. I am feeling better. There was only the option of going even lower than I was when I wrote that last post, and I’ve been there and hope to never return, or getting better, and I managed to pull myself up to functional. My Doctor added a [...]
' September 3rd, 2009 at 04:43pm 4 comments
Remember pagers? Oh, I’ve been paged! Now I need to get to a phone.
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With summer nearing its end my teens seem to want to spend every last second doing either nothing, or hanging out with friends. I feel a rush inside, things to get ready for that probably have already been taken care of. Polly [...]
' August 24th, 2009 at 01:23pm 2 comments
In the days since I last posted here, boy have I slipped back down. It seems like one thing after another. The washing machine broke; we were able to scrounge up the money to buy a used one, and then the dryer broke. Our kids asked when we were going to get a new one [...]
' August 5th, 2009 at 08:40pm 6 comments
I sat on the edge of the worn green couch, sipping warm black coffee and trying to remember how to make small talk. I tried to remind myself that I had to do this. I had to meet the parents and visit their homes before I could just leave my child there to play.
After we [...]
' June 18th, 2009 at 06:18pm Add comment