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Don’t Worry. I’ll Do It.
I live in a house full of people who seem to think I live to clean up after them. Sometimes, I don’t mind. They have places to go and work to do and I chose the life of a stay at home mom and caregiver. But, other times, I want to take all…
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Dad
I wanted to call my Dad today. I usually called him on Saturday morning. I never had to worry if he was up. He has always been up early. He didn’t like spending too much time on the phone. He had stuff to get done. He was always waiting…
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“Good Morning”
Some days I can’t do it. I just don’t have it in me to do what I need to do with a good attitude. Everything seems really hard. I just need them to go to school. I need to not for a while. I need to not worry about the dishes and the…
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Reminders
My daughter goes to autism school. It has been a godsend for our family. She gets the kind of help there that she needs. Her therapists love her even though I am sure she drives them crazy sometimes as she does me. She is a ball of energy…
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Making Do
As the mother of five kids, I am pretty good at making do. We burn through food at an alarming rate. Clothes are too small before the season is over. Stuff gets lost. Things get broken. Money is tight. All these things require a mother to…
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It Ain’t Brain Surgery
My adult life has had its share of ups and downs. Our family has dealt with job loss and severe financial strain, autism and behavioral issues, difficult foster kids, and the joys of being self employed. I have struggled at times with the…
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Inner Child
Let’s face it. Life as an adult is stressful, especially these days with all the unrest in this country and the world. Politics add stress. Finances add stress. Parenting adds stress. Social pressures to be perfect add stress. What are we…
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Thank God It’s Monday
Thank God it’s Friday. These words are on seemingly everyone’s lips and social media pages at the end of the work week. For me, the feelings that comes with the weekend are a little different. It’s more of a “Batten down the hatches! —…
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Inventors Unite!
I don’t have the technical or mechanical brain or the time or inclination to develop new inventions but I do have some ideas. Over the course of my last eighteen years of life and parenting, I have thought of a few things that would make…
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Dear Me
To whom it may concern: I would like to withdraw my request to become an adult. I know it’s what I said I wanted, but I have changed my mind. It is not all it is cracked up to be. I don’t want to be in charge of all this stuff. I don’t…
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My Favorite Things
In the interest of starting out 2017 on a positive note, I am compiling a list of my favorite things. Things that make me happy, help me to feel better when I am worn out or down about the way my life is going at that moment, things that…
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Over the River and Through the Woods
Traveling with a child requires some effort. Traveling with several children can really be a challenge. Traveling with my bunch is akin to an Olympic event in parenting and human endurance — it is not for the feint of heart. As I have…
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Perfectly Imperfect
Every year, I look forward to Christmas. It is my favorite holiday. And every year, on December 26th, I experience a great sense of relief and guilt. Relief because the craziness has passed, and guilt, because I have once again succumbed…
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Husband People
I don’t know much about other people’s husbands, but I know mine pretty well. We’ve know each other since high school. We’ve been married for twenty years and we have five kids together. I love him with all my heart and couldn’t imagine my…
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Normal
It strikes me how adaptable human being are. As a parent of many, but especially of a non-standard child, it has occurred to me on innumerable occasions that some of the “normal” stuff that goes on in our house doesn’t happen in the homes…
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Just One More
I have five kids. For many people, that seems like a lot of kids or perhaps even too many. I’ve known I wanted a lot of kids for as long as I can remember. I grew up with three siblings and I always thought big families were the way to go…