Tag Archive: sanity

ch-ch-ch-changes

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…

not just another year

I had an anniversary pass that I’d like to acknowledge.  Last year, July 29th to be exact, I started writing (somewhat) regularly on this blog.  As I reread Where Have I Been? The answer is right where I started.  I’m still officially an unemployed, stay-at-home mom.  My kids drive me crazy, my sanity sometimes is…

wordless wednesday: mom, i need a haircut

I cracked up this morning when BigBoy says to me, “can we go somewhere right now?”  They were running all around so I thought that was probably a good idea.  They need to run out their energy; it helps my sanity.  BigBoy suggested one of our favorite parks.  I packed up a few snacks and…

water babies

(c) NotJustAnotherJen

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…

Mommy on the brink

Crazy Woman

I need a coping mechanism other than more wine.  I need a change to happen or I may lose it this time.  I’m talking about my sanity.  Is there a diagnosis for this?  Is this what turns good, normally-adjusted women crazy?  Back me up here, but all the SAHM’s out there…do you have episodes where…

soft and gooey center

See

I’m the kind of jen that when I don’t like something about myself or a situation that I’m in, I go to work on changing it (where applicable).  Right now, I’m at an all new point.  Let’s take for example, this soft and gooey center that I have developed.  I’d like to play innocent and…

coming down from the high

champagne cork

I feel like I’m coming down from a month long high (not that I’ve ever done that big of a bender, I’m just saying).  First, we had Husband’s parents here for a long stay over Thanksgiving (and in to December).  Then I went away to Boise to celebrate a dear friend’s birthday and to meet…

who’s laughing now

MIL dog

I just took my MIL to the airport.  PTL and I mean it!  I have so many mixed feelings about her.  I think that she is a great demonstration of god’s little practical and private jokes with me.  We do have a few good moments together, but the rest of the time I’m just left…

that old lady can suck it

it seemed like such a good idea 12 months ago

Two stops.  That’s all we had to do today.  It should have been fine.  I had two hours before nap time.  That should be plenty of time before a melt down set in. First stop, BevMo.  You know today was the last day of the 5 cent sale.  Gotta stock pile while you can.  Yes,…

Quiet Time

quiet time

I’m a thinker.  I think a lot.  I probably think too much.  I know that when I start feeling like things are too tough right now, I look for the lesson to learn.  My dear friend and teacher, Victoria Castle, wrote in her book Trance of Scarcity, “If struggling were the way to get there,…