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Week 32: The Ugly Truth

September 1, 2014 By Lauren

Keeping It Real Challenge

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?” […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: blog, guilt, job, keeping it real, kids, online, parenting, priorities, truth, truth hurts

Week 31: The Cormier Kids and the Not Bummer Summer

August 24, 2014 By Lauren

Beach Day

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 […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: als, back to school, beach, end of summer, ice bucket challenge, keeping it real, summer, water balloon fight

Week 30: A walk to remember

August 17, 2014 By Lauren

Dreams vs Reality

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 […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: exercise, keeping it real, kids, nature, neighbors, quality time, walks, yelling

Week 29: Life is beautiful

August 10, 2014 By Lauren

Oldest and Youngest

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 […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: brevity, death, do what matters, keeping it real, life, meaning

Week 28: Bring it on- Fight to the finish

August 3, 2014 By Lauren

Inconsistent

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 […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: character flaws, consistency, dreams, follow through, goals, ideas, inconsistency, keeping it real, plans, projects, stick-to-it-iveness

Week 27: The Parent Trap

July 28, 2014 By Lauren

It'll Change Your Life

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 […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: change your life, ipad, keeping it real, parenting trick, running away, worst mommy, worst mommy award

Week 26: Poetry in Motion

July 22, 2014 By Lauren

I Love My Garage

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 […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: car, face paint, garage, keeping it real, noisy, ode, rain, scavenger hunt, snow, Storyland

Week 24: Failure to staunch (the TV watching)

July 7, 2014 By Lauren

I Love My Kids

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 […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: cable, fail, failure, guilt, keeping it real, mom, summer vacation, TV

Week 23: The cable guy

June 30, 2014 By Lauren

Turning Off TV

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 […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: bundle, cable guy, cancel, frustration, internet, keeping it real, mbps, migraine, television

Week 22: The kids are all right

June 23, 2014 By Lauren

Allison is a butwead

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 […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: bullying, buttweed, diary, emotions, keeping it real, kids, name calling, self-control

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