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Week 21: Kindergarten cop

June 16, 2014 By Lauren

Family Pic

First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. I did it. I survived Eli’s first year of school. I survived him being gone five days a week from 7:30 in the morning until 3:00 in the afternoon. I wasn’t sure I would survive it when […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: graduation, keeping it real, kindergarten, no TV, school, summer vacation, television, TV

Week 20: Driving in cars with boys

June 10, 2014 By Lauren

Sea Dogs catch on the field

First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. For Eli’s birthday last month, we bought him Sea Dogs tickets (for those of you who don’t live around here, the Sea Dogs are the Red Sox Double-A team). The game was this past Sunday. We left […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: baseball, be prepared, cell phone, keeping it real, making friends, not prepared, red sox, Sea Dogs

Week 19: The taming of the shrew

June 2, 2014 By Lauren

spring concert

If you’re just joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to learn what it’s all about. Friday afternoon: I pick Eli up from school and head with the kids to Sam’s Club. I’d love to wait until tomorrow to go, but since we have only one partial roll of toilet paper […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: clothes, keeping it real, power outage, shrew, spring concert, tie

Week 18: The sweetest thing

May 27, 2014 By Lauren

sweet spot

If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to learn how it all began. I read a blog post a while back by a mom whose kids are a little bit older than mine. She was at the pool with them one summer day when she […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: easier, keeping it real, kids, sweet spot

Week 17: Heaven is for real

May 20, 2014 By Lauren

birth minute

If this is your first time reading one of my Keeping It Real Challenge posts, please click here to find out what they’re all about. I first learned of the Sauer family in March, about a month after they discovered that their four year old son, Ben, had a cancerous brain tumor. He’d had surgery, […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: ben sauer, blue4Ben, cancer, keeping it real

Week 16: Looking back

May 13, 2014 By Lauren

16 Weeks Down, 36 to Go

If this is your first time joining me, please click here to find out what this is all about. Sixteen weeks! That means I’m a third of the way through the Keeping It Real Challenge. Gotta be honest, this is the longest I’ve stuck with a project in a long time. I always have good […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: 16 weeks, keeping it real, looking back, one third

Week fifteen: Late times at Cormier high

May 5, 2014 By Lauren

I used to be on time for everything. No, that’s not true. I was early for everything. Sometimes I would drive around the block a time or two or sit in my car outside the place I was going so that I wouldn’t be too early. Being late stressed me out, big time. Well, one […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: hateful, keeping it real, late, mean, stressed

Week fourteen: Circle of friends

April 28, 2014 By Lauren

friendship

If you’re just joining me, please click here to find out what this is all about. When I met Eric, he had a great group of friends. They welcomed me in with open arms and soon I was a part of their frequent get togethers. We would meet up at church, go out for dinner, […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: circle of friends, friends, friendship, keeping it real, time

Week thirteen: Married life

April 21, 2014 By Lauren

If you’re just joining me, please click here to find out what this is all about. 5:30, Tuesday evening. Eric opens the front door and walks into the living room, arms laden with a large paper bag, truck keys, a clipboard full of paperwork, and this morning’s coffee cup. “How’s my beautiful wife?” he asks […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: keeping it real, married life, married with children

Week eleven: Up close and personal

April 8, 2014 By Lauren

If you’re just joining me, please click here to find out what this is all about. Last week’s update was all about the embarrassing things that happen once you become a parent. Guess what this week is about? Yeah. The same. exact. thing. Here’s how it went down: On Monday I guest blogged at Robin’s […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: embarrassing moments, hunting license, keeping it real, television news

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