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Where I been.
Posted by: | CommentsLet me give you a glimpse into my life lately.
Typical day:
6:30 -Alarm Goes Off
6:45 -I remember that my coffee pot is broken. Tear up a little and roll out of bed.
6:50 -8:30 -Check my email, google reader, and facebook. Make breakfast and find Aiden clothes. Yell at least one thousand ten times because Aiden isn’t getting dressed. Get dressed and every once in a while I sneak a shower in.
8:30 -9:00-Drive Aiden to school and arrive to my school.
9:00 -12:00 – Guzzle coffee and work.
12:00 -3:00 -Class. Then another class. Then a third class.
3:00-3:45-Pick up Aiden. Say hello to my mother in her office and drive back home.
4:30-5:30-Arrive home, cook dinner, pick up the house
5:30-Dinner
6:00-7:00-Aiden time. Games, projects, go outside, watch tv, tickle time
7:00-8:00-Bath time, pick up the house, talk about the next day, bed time routine
8:00-10:00-Work on work related projects, attempt to complete any homework I have lingering over me.
10:00-11:00-Brain mush time. Indulge in bad television, bad music, and often times WINE.
11:00-Fall into bed. Discover I STILL have sticky pudding residue on my blanket from some little guy. Remember that I don’t care and fall asleep.
I am exhausted.
Letter to my 20 Something Self: Maura
Posted by: | CommentsI was so touched when I received Maura’s letter. As you know I too have a little boy in my twenties. I cannot tell you how often it is a challenge being the youngest mom in the bunch.
I have been a little absent this week. It is our last week of summer classes. :)
Enjoy!
| Dear 20 year old Maura,
What a good mom you were to those two little boys. Although there will be a time in your future that you will be less than stellar, you rocked when they were little. Apple picking in your high heeled clogs, pumpkin picking, lazy afternoons at the beach you did them all. You didn’t have much support back then so you went out and found it by joining a mother’s group, you being the youngest mom of the bunch didn’t faze you a bit. Love yourself more, don’t be so critical of your body, you will actually come to believe in your beauty. Don’t believe the voices in your head that tell you that you are not worthy because you never completed college. You are very smart woman that will do quite all right for herself. The man you married he was not the “one” but he gave you those two little boys who are the loves of your life. You will meet the “one” who will love you unconditionally and be a wonderful step dad to those boys. He will teach you the power of family something you did not know. Addiction will get the better of you, but you will turn it around and be a power of example before it is too late. This journey will change you. Don’t run so fast, smell that salt air and spring lilacs, walk the beach more. If I could tell you one thing it is that you are worthy. Love your 41 year old self. |
