Boys and I went Halloween Camping this weekend at our favorite KOA campground.  We always have a great time when we camp, let alone at this campground and with our besties, Dawn and Mason.  This year we added Anna, Jon and Jonathan. Weekend started out crappy with rain on Friday night, but that ended around 8:30pm, so we pulled out the s'mores and...

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I picked it up in my twenties.  Put it down for many, many years and in the last eight or so I have been never without a project on the needles.  I am so blessed my boys prefer their mama-made goods.  I am so blessed to have learned this from my mother and youtube.  And I was gifted my grandmothers folder of patterns. ...

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The thing about my parenting style is, is that I am a fun parent.  I make sure the boys get to experience as much as they can where we can.  We camp, we visit museums and take road trips.  We go to the library, explore our backyard.  We appreciate simplicity and the off-beaten path. This weekend was no different.  We went to a...

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... and that is exactly what just happened.  I just wrote for about 40 minutes or so.  Feelings and more feelings on paper.  Release.  Felt cathartic.  Felt good. I wrote to these people.  They deserve to hear from me.  He can shut me out of his life all he wants, and think he is protecting them.  He's not.  So I wrote my feelings about...

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I failed my part.  I failed at giving 100%.  I have guilt for it, because its not who I am to not give when people need me. Though as soon as I feel the guilt, I also feel anger and foolishness.  You see, being with him wasnt easy by any means.  There were expectations.  There were non-communicated expectations.  There were assumptions.  Stubbornness.  A...

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