Strange fascination, fascinatin’. Ah changes are takin’, the pace I’m going through. - David Bowie Here’s what I know how to do. One foot in front of the other. Grammy always said, “keep on keeping on.” And that’s what I’m doing. However, I think I just need a good cry. Or a vacation (though we [...]
I recently wrote about Husband and I taking separate vacations each visiting our families flying it solo with the kids. The payoff is that we each have time alone, the cost is that we continue to delay taking a vacation together (which we sorely need). I had my vacation with the boys in July . [...]
I know. Sexy is an attitude. It comes from within. But there are days when I feel so mom. Like I’m not jen. Just mom. No jen sauce. No jen on the side. Just mom. Wiping the tears, listening to the fighting, interrupting fighting, band-aiding boo-boos, setting out clothes, helping with clothes, brushing teeth, putting [...]
I’ve got a friend in from out of town that I’ve known pretty much all my life. He has three kids with two different baby mamas. One kid is your typical (becoming) teenager who is gonna be alright – smart boy, good co-parenting, could be cute if he would shut his mouth and be nicer. [...]
For Mother’s Day, Husband surprised me (I mean REALLY surprised me) with a MacBook. I had my prior PC laptop for a good 5 years and the screen had started to diminish, it was getting slow and even after Hubs put in more memory in it two years ago, I was at the memory breaking [...]
I am the kind of person who is always looking to learn and do a good job at whatever I put my mind to. It doesn’t always work, road to hell, etc., etc. But if heaven is anything like the movie “Defending Your Life,” I want to know that if I died tomorrow I can [...]
So I’m having a mini mommy-freak-out right now. And at the same time I don’t want to whip it into a froth either. It doesn’t have to go that way (thank you Mr. P90X for that saying. I learned that lesson from you.) But as a parent, don’t you have those horrifying flashes in your [...]
If I ever wrote a book I would call it “Honestly Jen.” However, I would ask that whenever anybody read the title they would have to say it with a sigh and an eye roll. I have a way with words that is kinda like my super power. It can be used for evil, but [...]
Last weekend I met my parents out in Phoenix. We were to go to a dear family friends’ memorial service. Not the happiest of reasons to go, but good to see old friends and where we all used to live. BabyD and I made the trek across the 6+ hours of arid landscape. I do [...]
I write to save my sanity and help me sort my thoughts and feelings all out. Often times when I write about my children, it’s out of sheer anger, frustration or confusion. Well this weekend was BigBoy’s 5th birthday. So I wanted to write about him and the complete love I have in my heart. [...]