If you’re just joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to find out what it’s all about. Sometimes the truth hurts. When it’s spoken in love, though, it makes you realize that changes need to take place. Last week Eli said to me, “Why are you on the computer so much?” […]
Week 31: The Cormier Kids and the Not Bummer Summer
First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to find out what it’s all about! Well, summer lasted about .038 seconds. It always seems short, but this year, wow! It just flew. This was the last week before school starts and the last week that my sister and her two kids […]
Week 30: A walk to remember
If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to find out what it’s all about. I like to go for walks with my kids. It gets us out of our house and yard and gives me the illusion that I’m getting some exercise while enjoying time […]
Week 29: Life is beautiful
If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to find out what it’s all about. The brevity of life hit me this week. On Tuesday evening we drove down to Bar Harbor. Not an hour after we passed a certain stretch of road, three people lost […]
Week 28: Bring it on- Fight to the finish
First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to find out what it’s all about. Let’s talk character flaws. Mine, not yours (although I’d love for you to list some of yours in the comments so I don’t feel like such a loser). Actually, I just want to talk about one […]
Week 27: The Parent Trap
First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. I stumbled upon a parenting trick this week that might change my life. Okay, maybe that’s an overstatement, but so far it’s been quite successful and I’m planning to wring every ounce of usefulness I can out […]
Week 26: Poetry in Motion
First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. We’ve made it to the halfway point of the Keeping It Real Challenge! Honestly, sometimes I wonder what the point is, writing down the mundane facts of my life and sharing them each week, but I’m halfway […]
Week 24: Failure to staunch (the TV watching)
If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, click here to learn what it’s all about. Do you ever feel like a failure? I do. All. The. Time. Did I have these feelings when I was younger? I’m sure I did, but I don’t really remember now; probably because […]
Week 23: The cable guy
If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, click here to learn what it’s all about. I should have known it wouldn’t be easy. I imagined calling the cable company, telling them we were cancelling our television subscription, and that would be that. Since the approximately 19 bazillion phone […]
Week 22: The kids are all right
First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. Some parts of parenting leave me a little stumped. Okay, maybe lots of parts of parenting leave me stumped. This gig ain’t easy. My latest conundrum? What do to about name-calling. Look, I know kids calling other […]