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Category Archives: Aging Gracefully
Fresh-Faced
There was no Instagram or Facebook reminding you that you weren’t pretty enough. No YouTube make-up tutorials showing you how to contour your face. Hell, did people even do contouring back then?
Birthday
“Birthdays were the worst days…”
Kick Off Your Shoes!
It’s the first decision I made when we got home from the hospital with our new little Meatwad: It’s time for this to be a shoeless house. In the weeks leading up to Meatwad’s arrival, my nesting urges made me a crazy OCD cleaner. I scrubbed before the cleaning service came over and would even tidy upContinue reading “Kick Off Your Shoes!”
How Far Along Are You?
I’m in the home stretch. I am so close yet so. far. from having this baby. I feel like qualifying it by weeks or even number of days doesn’t do it justice because it just doesn’t describe the level of pregnant that I am. So, here are some other ways to count how far along IContinue reading “How Far Along Are You?”
Re-Birth
The clock is winding down. With any luck, I will have given birth by this time next month. I am just now getting used to my life being entirely different from Little Man’s arrival, and now things are about to change all over again. But more on that later… It’s funny how pregnancy is soContinue reading “Re-Birth”
Songs That Make You go “Hmmm”
On my drive to work, I am listening to one of three things: A random podcast, my son’s children sing-along CD, or the radio. I’m not fancy enough to have a satellite radio and I’m on a shared data plan so Spotify or Pandora are out of the question. Mostly, I listen to the radio.Continue reading “Songs That Make You go “Hmmm””
Forever Young
Recently, there have been a lot of revelations that remind me that I am no spring chick anymore. It spans from activities like leering through my blinds to shake my head at the latch-key kids across the street when they make a ruckus late at night all the way to checking TVGuide.com to see if there will be aContinue reading “Forever Young”