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Quarantine Writing
To the tune of strawberry wine. Like strawberry wine. Quarantined. Hot April day. Wishing it was May. First taste of Lysol. Bittersweet. No toilet paper sign. Give me some strawberry wine. The kids are homeschooled now… seems like years since I’ve left my house, there’s nothing gloved hands hasn’t touched. Is it really TJ Maxx or the loss of my highlighted hair, I’ve been missing so much….
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Don’t Let Covid Control You
So with the covid 19…. many Americans and ppl all over the world are in front of more electronics than ever. Sending silly memes or filling out stupid surveys. What are some ways mommy blogs and be apart of it? Activities with your kids Self love for you So many times we have these great ideas! Why not share with other moms and the whole world so that they too can benefit. The virus is very scary for us and for our children. Part of their life, school, friends, parts you don’t see everyday has been taken away from them. What are some productive things we as parents can do…
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Goals for 2020
Slow to speak and slow to anger. Lord this is so hard for me right now. I mean how do other moms do it? You tell your kids over and over until your blue in the face and they still don’t do it. The frustration and exhaustion. Eventually you’ve had it. My goals for 2020 are to show more love and kindness to my children and instead of anger and registration. Spend more quality time with my husband instead of my social media hours. Lord, help me to show the love and kindness to my children and husband for 2020. I’m looking forward to see what is has in store…
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Social Suckers
Social Media is My Soul Sucker I’m pretty sure that social media and Facebook has triggered my ADD inside of me. I use to be always pretty focused. I never thought I had ADD. However, as I have gotten older and more stress I have a hard time focusing. Facebook doesn’t help. I’ll start to shop for something, and then I see something else. Then I got to Facebook, and then I decide to look on Instagram. Then I try to Google the first thing I was looking for. Before you know it, I get back on Facebook and I forget to order Christmas! It is two weeks till Christmas…
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Thanksgiving traditions and Memoir
This thanksgiving was a first that some families had others missing from their table. Not because they couldn’t make it, because they were celebrating with Jesus. My great uncle had a sadness in his eyes almost as if he was lost in his mind. He handed out a few pages of staples paper that he had typed up about my aunt. Her biography. He didn’t want to leave anything out and wanted others to add to it. It made me think, how many of us have written our own autobiographies down and what will others remember us by or thank us for? What good did we do in this world that…
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Jealousy is a Lousy Prospective
Jealousy… The word has been popping in my head all week. One of my friends tweeted about it. It’s easy to start showing jealousy of things you do not have. But when you lose what you do have, prospective sets in and you tend to gain more humbleness. Thou shalt not covet. Most of the time we think of a car or house. But, it’s deeper than that. We wish we were a mom. That we had the job with the corner office window and 6 figure salary. We wish we were a super model. Wanting freedom to travel like our friend has! We want what we don’t have, and…
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Destinations of Each Chapter
“She’s so high” plays as I fly out of Atlanta to my final destination. Makes me think of what all happens between our start in life’s journey and the final destination to each chapter. Often times I tend to be a people pleaser. Always wanting to give my best and my all. I had an older brother growing up. It always seemed easy for him. I was constantly in his shadow and thought of as “Swayne’s Sister” which everyone seemed to think it had a great ring to it. All through middle and high school, that’s who I was. Not Jenny, not Swayne, not my individuality at all. Just a…
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That Work Life Though… Thoughts from a Boss
When writing ppl say to jot down everything that’s in your brain at one time then sort it out in the end. I have tons but don’t know how to begin. At work I’d like to think I am building an empire. Being a practice manager is a lonely job but it doesn’t have to be. You have to put high quality people in positions and trust them to do their job. If you can’t trust them to do it, your hosed. I have some women who have been tremendous. Yes they have their quirks, but they honestly do care about their job, the patients, and the practice. They don’t…
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Our Person. Our Love.
The other day I noticed a few women sitting together at church. The widows. It got me to thinking, we may not know our spouse as long as our parents, but we are around them a lot more. They are the ones who know our bad days, sick days, financial troubles. You love them or at one time loved them and you have so many memories of them. Together you have children and have lost parents. They have molded you into do you far. They are your person.
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A Father’s Love
Happy Father’s Day! To all the men in the world who took a stand to be a father: Grandpa, Papaw, Poppa, Dad, Uncle, Foster Dad, and Step-Dads alike. Brad Paisley said it best in his song “the Dad he didn’t have to be.” If it weren’t for these men stepping up and taking a stand, rather it be their own blood or not, each child would be at a loss, longing for something, and wondering what it was they were missing. Dad plays a BIG role in a child’s life. Ask anyone who has lost a dad. You can ask any psychologist or counselor who has counseled a child with…
