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Perhaps the most difficult thing I've experienced in attempting to settle in to being a mother has been dealing with classic introversion. I've been this way my entire life. (Myers Briggs/Keirsey type INFJ) I have an almost visceral need for space and time to process daily life and I need to...

If you know me even a little bit for any length of time, you know I'm an overthinker — that I can analyze things to death. With a lot of work, I do it far less than I used to. But I still do it more than I want to. But it's me. And it's why I don't usually make the same mistake twi...

But at least now we can start our garage band. We bought the drums over the weekend for $100 from a drunk British barkeep. We weren't even in the market for a drum kit. It was all very rock and roll.  Holy crap does this kid love them though.         �...

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Jeff and I went to a black tie event Friday night. It was actually a Ball. The story behind why we were attending a Ball is complicated and difficult to explain and also not that important to the story. It's much more interesting to note what happened before the Ball as I was getting ready Frida...

"Taylor" farted: Stupid fucking psycho celebutard stalker. Who cares what hollywood freaks do on their own time?...

Recently, I've been attempting to write middle-school curriculum about Jesus and the kingdom He sought to usher in. It's been interesting, to expect to have to "dumb down" what I already know, just to find out during the process that I actually needed to re-learn some of the fundam...

Things have been so much better lately. In the last month or so it seems we've all turned a corner in every possible way. After Myles' evaluation with the feeding therapist,  he's begun improving such that I actually notice it a little more each day. It's literally as if a swit...