For some reason people are so eager to learn about my diagnosis with MS. It is so funny to me because I absolutely do not care. The people who ask do surprise me, but never offend me. But at the same time, it was easily the worst day of my life. So why are so … Continue reading My MS diagnosis
Today was the 7th day of school, and the first time this year I have cried at drop off. Don’t get me wrong, I feel lots of emotions on the first day, but it’s not an overwhelming sense of sadness. Our summers are not like we just spend a bunch of time together. I work … Continue reading Day 7 playground tears
Photo: outtakes from my favorite photo sesh with my boys. Chaos that is my beautiful life 💙 I would say nobody grows up and imagines their life and thinks “I want to have kids, but I want to do it alone!” We don’t set out to be single moms, but so many woman end up … Continue reading Single Moms
Today was L1s second day of first grade. He is not enjoying it so far, but apparently they are “just learning rules I already know. You should be able to raise your hands and have extra recess if you remember them all” 🙄 but I’m sure it will get better. Yesterday I was able to … Continue reading Second day of First Grade
Recently I have had several friends in hard places in their marriages confide in me. I always think this is odd, because I am obviously not a marriage expert. But I do feel honored to be trusted with secrets, and I love bouncing ideas and brainstorming about life. Mostly I love helping people. I am … Continue reading Water your grass
34 days ago I woke up so tired of the pain I was in. It’s not life altering, but it was hard. I woke up with headaches, would regularly feel like lightening was striking me along the side of my face, sometimes so bad I would have to stop whatever I was doing and grab … Continue reading Whole 30 alumni
In honor of world breastfeeding week, I felt compelled to jot down my thoughts on this week. I have seen so many post about it, nursing pictures, you name it! It is amazing. But also a little insane. Before you jump to conclusions about me, let me tell you I breastfed both my children. L1 … Continue reading World Breastfeeding Week
So tonight this really strange thing happened. I had just finished cleaning up a bit and decided to sit for a second and look at my emails before I put my son to bed. I was filtering through junk emails when I noticed something so exciting. I had two emails that told me L1 had … Continue reading An anxious mom and her gifted kid
Thanks for joining me! I am going to leave this initial post here so that everyone think’s I have some idea what I am doing. I have been writing for a while, with some mild intention of one day creating a blog for everyone to read and join me in my amazing thoughts. But in … Continue reading The Journey Begins
Days with Andrea 