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Nothing to Fear 1970-01-01 00:59:59 A quiet, shy child I grew up afraid of nearly everything. Some things were understandable, others quite ridiculous. Fear seemed to have a grip on my life from the very beginning, at least as early on as I can remember.
It seems odd for a child to struggle with the fear I felt most of my childhood. Some of the ridiculous fears include the time my parents told me about the tooth fairy...I was Read more:Nothing
The Postpartum Blues 1970-01-01 00:59:59 We have a president who wants to put man on Mars, use stem cells to help save lives in need, and someone has even devised a way to clone animals. So why on earth do so many new mothers continue to suffer from postpartum depression, something that seems so easy to eliminate if only modern medicine would make the effort. Okay, so maybe modern medicine is researching this illness as we speak, but Read more:Postpartum
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God Bless Toccara 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This morning I caught a glimpse of myself before I stepped into the shower. "Wow," I thought, "with all the work I'm doing I WILL be a hot-mama." I am bound and determined to go from the higher end of the plus-size spectrum, to a nice, toned, healthier size.
Recently a friend of mine mentioned Toccara, the voluptuous beauty from Tyra's "America's Next Top Model" who didn't win, but has won in Read more:Bless
Do You Want More? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 As of 2004 I am the mother of two. Jay will be six in February and Nas turned 2 last October. We planned half of our pregnancies and hope that our method of family planning is successful for the next 75 years, I don't want more babies. This is the topic of discussion amongst mothers especially when your kids are playing together and you actually have a moment to share a complete thought with
I Choose Sanity 1970-01-01 00:59:59 For a long, dark eight years I have struggled, to some degree, with clinical depression. During that time I have taken five different antidepressants in an effort to maintain the way "normal" people do. With each prescription I only hoped to wake up in the morning knowing I would recognize the person in the mirror, to spend the day without wondering why on earth I exist, to go through each day Read more:Sanity
Coffee the Culprit? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This morning I woke to a dreary, fog-ridden morning and I was determined it wouldn't get me down. I'm so used to the sunny days that the gloomy ones send my mood plummeting. When you have more than 300 days of sun, I guess you can get pretty spoiled. But I opened the blinds, made pancakes (Nas' favorite) and decided there was no way I could wake up without a cup of joe. Typically I don't Read more:Coffee
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Is Baking the New Prozac? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 On my 28th birthday last September I thought I was still a young buck enjoying life alongside my husband and 2 little people. Among my mommy-friends, 28 is just a baby but when I decided to whip up a batch of homemade oatmeal cookies I started to wonder if I'm on my way to becoming a traditional mother of decades ago. I'm no cook and I've always been okay with that. Afterall my mom, grandmother Read more:Baking
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There Is a God 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I know a lot of people don't believe in God or, as they may say, a "higher power", but in my life my relationship with God is what keeps me waking up every day. But not only is He evident in keeping me and my family safe, fed, clothed and with a roof over our heads, it is God who created love. He allows me to feel His love on a daily basis, whether I deserve it or not.
I experience a lot of love
Is this Child Mine? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 On February 23, 2001, I gave birth to an 8lb 6oz baby girl. With her rosy-pink lips and jet-black hair, she was perfect. When we took her home she slept several hours a day and at least five hours straight through each night. If I didn't know better I'd have thought this baby was already two years old! She never was into being a baby, common for girls it seems, and she took any chance she had to
Snow, the New Devil 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I am at a total lost as to why Colorado has been overcome by consistently falling snow. In all of my nearly 20 years in this colorful Rocky Mountain state I have never, ever dreaded the mention of the white stuff the way I have this winter. Since December 21, 2006, Colorado has seen snow every single weekend with maybe one break in there. And that break means there were only flurries falling from Read more:Devil
My Little Cheerleader 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This morning I decided to stand on the scale I keep stashed in the laundry room. If you're anything like me you know that keeping that thing in close proximity can be dangerous. I don't care how many doctors recommend weighing yourself on a daily basis, it can deal a real blow to your weight-loss efforts. So I've stayed off the thing for awhile and this morning I thought, "Why not?" I placed my Read more:Cheerleader
Cell Phone Madness 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I keep a journal and as I flipped through it one day it occurred to me that Babe and I have been arguing about his obsessive use and connection to his cell phone for years. I'd guess it's been since 2003 when he started his career and found the cell phone was the fastest most convenient way to keep in touch with clients and coworkers alike, and since then the creation of the compact, easy to use Read more:Madness
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The Life I Chose 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Six years ago I made a choice. I was a new mother and I had seen the turmoil so many mothers struggled with when leaving their brand new babies in our care at the infant child care center I worked for before it closed during my pregnancy. That was a situation I dreaded. So upon having a heart-to-heart with Babe, we decided I could continue school when the semester started and between our school
The Juror 1970-01-01 00:59:59 There's nothing like Jury Duty to make you appreciate what you thought was a ho-hum life.
My day started at 6:15 a.m. At 6:21, I reluctantly slung my legs over the edge of the bed to get ready for the unknown. I've never served on jury duty so all I had to go on was what I saw on television court cases, which, I found out, was quite inaccurate compared to the real world. As I dressed I Read more:Juror
Something New 2007-03-01 20:18:00 As I curled my hair this morning it occurred to me that I have lived in Colorado for nearly 19 years. We started out in Fort Collins before my fifth grade year and I stayed there until Babe graduated late 2002. Since then we have lived in Denver and currently reside in Aurora, a suburb of Denver. The mountains are great, when you actually make time to go up there, the weather is nice, winter Read more:Something New
Weight Loss is a Joke 2007-03-06 17:24:00 You walk, you run, you jump, you even kick and punch your way through a tae bo DVD in an effort to lose weight. You drink 25,000 ounces of water a day to flush any impurities from your system and hope plenty of fat will find its way out with all of that water. No sugar, no white flour, so no cookies or cake? Hm, and I'm supposed to survive this weight loss effort HOW?
I have been striving to Read more:Weight
, Weight Loss
Obsessed with the Fountain of Youth 2007-03-08 22:39:00 From television advertisements to an entire article in the most recent issue of O Magazine, I feel bombarded by our society's obsession with defying everyone's reality: aging. If it's not a special cream infused with water from the Swiss Alps that will keep your eyes wide open (to avoid crows feet of course) 24/7, it's a bottle of purplish-green juice you can drink to keep your skin looking the Read more:Fountain
Amazing Grace 2007-03-07 20:51:00 When I was eight years old I decided that I wanted to have two kids, like my aunt, and I envisioned myself as a wonderfully warm and loving mother. Back then I had the disposition of a lamb and saw myself as a "June Cleaver"-like mother wearing Nikes instead of white pumps.
Fast forward 14 years to the day when I first held my newborn daughter and I panicked because I wasn't sure what kind of Read more:Amazing
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Popcorn Man 2007-03-15 20:16:00 As I sit here through yet another viewing of Cars the Movie it occurs to me that if I don't stop typing and get my hand in the big bowl of fresh popcorn a little more often, my 2-year-old Popcorn Man is going to beat me to the punch! Every time I glance over Nas' mouth is so full there are white puffed kernels peeking between his little lips. It's nerve-wracking because 1) he's a puker and
I'm Sick 2007-03-15 19:01:00 So maybe the constant pounding we Coloradoans got over the past few months was good for something. I'm pretty sure that the consistent cold, snowy weather helped me stay healthy. This week we enjoyed the sun on our faces and even slathered on a layer of sunscreen to keep the Mile High sun from frying our skin. With temperatures in the low to mid-70s, life was good. The feet of snow in the
Today, I Feel Pretty 2007-03-16 21:31:00 Yessir, you read right, Today
I feel pretty. Today is the key word because I definitely didn't feel pretty yesterday and I'm not so sure I'll feel so fabulous tomorrow!
If you're a woman you know that you feel differently about yourself (your waist, your hips, your thighs, your face) as often as you change your underwear. Sometimes this constant change wears on me and when I find myself feeling Read more:Pretty
, Feel Pretty
What Happened to Basketball?? 2007-03-17 16:21:00 Basketball is a joke. No, professional basketball is a joke. The era of crowning an 18-year-old the "next Michael Jordan" has begun and the era of playing your butt off to show the world you are the best has ended. Over the past four years I have been enundated with LeBron-hype, fine-inducing brawls, and a bunch of hugely overgrown babies posing as professional athletes. If you want to watch a Read more:Basketball
Pee-Pee on the Potty 2007-03-20 20:12:00 It's March 20, 2007, and in 10 days my son will officially be one month shy of 2 1/2 years old. By now my little princess was wearing Dora the Explorer panties like a champ! So why is it so incredibly hard for Nas to put pee-pee in the potty??
I'm not asking much (or am I?). I just want the boy to spend most of his day putting his waste in something other than a disposable diaper with Blue
Model Behavior 2007-03-23 20:04:00 As I sit here eating potato chip after potato chip I am reminded by what my husband suggested a couple of nights ago as he flipped through the pages of my Figure magazine. Figure is a magazine for "plus-size" women which apparently includes any woman size 14 on up. I happen to fall into that category. As Babe looked at each woman he wondered why so many of them look alike. He also noticed there Read more:Behavior
Mommy-Friends and Vanilla Lattes 2007-03-28 02:54:00 There are only a few things in this world that bring me complete satisfaction and contentment in the midst of hardship. When money becomes a long-lost friend still nowhere to be found, the kids are whining and fighting every chance they get, and my favorite jeans are too tight, there are days I complain and shake my booty to my favority pity-party music but then there are the days I marvel in Read more:Mommy
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Yoga, I'm Feelin' It 2007-03-30 05:04:00 Recently I went to our Blockbuster Online account to place an order for movies they would send for our "viewing pleasure." Along with a few "real" movies, I added a yoga for beginners DVD to the queue. It came in the mail yesterday and because I wasn't sure what to expect, it sat in its package until this evening when my back was so tense and my head ached with pain shooting from the base of my
What Not to Wear 2007-03-29 19:01:00 Short of my ability to keep my day-to-day wear very t-shirt and jeans basic, I'm a fashion disaster waiting to happen. I've had a few fashion misses just recently, which is why I can typically be found in simple clothes that, in past experience, have worked well for me. One of those misses included the cute tops with elastic around the bust and a loose, almost flare, through the body. I
Where is the Love? 2007-03-30 23:53:00 Lately it seems like movie after movie designed or portrayed as "kid" movies have been nothing but cute characters with mature language and a heavy story line. This isn't new news, after all, Bambi was a movie for children and his mother was killed by a hunter. Plenty of protagonists have been portrayed as victims of a lost parent and other realities in life I find myself explaining much
Wake-Up Call 2007-04-03 21:51:00 Although I have been concerned about my financial security as a stay-at-home mom (SAHM), especially since having Nas, my second child, I read an exerpt from Leslie Bennetts' book The Feminine Mistake and it really did make me think a lot about it.
It wasn't your typical working mother vs. SAHM debate, it wasn't really a debate at all. Her viewpoint focused more on women protecting themselves
Global Warming, Blood Diamonds and American Schools 2007-04-03 20:49:00 This weekend Babe and I watched "Blood
Diamond" after wanting to see it since before it premiered at the theaters. It's funny because although I wanted to see it at the theater, I'm so glad I viewed it at home where I could let a couple of tears drop and vent my irritation about the injustice the people of Sierra Leone endured. Although it was sickening to see the random killing, raping and Read more:Global
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