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Emotional Baggage

Happy to Cry

August 22, 2013March 21, 2014 Crankygiraffe4 Comments

This week I've had to work hard to fight back the tears.  I wasn't always successful, either. It is hard not to cry when I think about how much I miss my boys and my home.  Tonight is the only night there hasn't ben a fight to keep it inside and I know it's because… Continue reading Happy to Cry

Real Babies Move Around
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Real Babies Move Around

August 21, 2013August 22, 2013 Crankygiraffe4 Comments

I'm learning how to do fetal ultrasound today! Scanning a tiny baby inside a mom's belly is way, WAY harder than it looks! As if learning how to do ultrasound on its own isn't difficult enough, try learning on a baby... who doesn't stop moving! Real babies move around... A lot! Just when you think… Continue reading Real Babies Move Around

Dinner for One
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Dinner for One

August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 Crankygiraffe8 Comments

Have you ever gone to eat at a restaurant alone? I never have, until tonight, that is... I've been to fast-food places alone on multiple occasions, but that's a little different.  I'm talking about a real, sit down, a-la-carte, type restaurant.  It was an interesting experience.  I felt like I stuck out like a sore… Continue reading Dinner for One

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Blogger Friends Got Ideas!

Yesterday, after my Alter Ego, Cranky Giraffe, posted about my son’s crazy little love letter to his newest idol, Lady Gaga, an old old blogging friend tweeted it, with an idea that maybe he could meet her!  I know the likelihood of it being re-tweeted by anyone other than myself is pretty low… But who […]

It’s Been a Long Time…

“It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town And this time I’m not leaving without you” ~Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) I know I haven’t been here blogging for quite a long time (almost a year and a half…), but there was something about blogging that […]

The Common Sense Problem

The airplane seat map shows that the emergency exit row seats are considered “less desirable.” It’s a little ironic since they come with extra leg room, even if they don’t recline (really, who needs to recline 2 inches when you have two extra feet of leg room?). I think the real reason they are less […]

Walking Tall

This month I’m traveling around the country to check out fellowship positions. It is exhausting, trying, lonely, and often confusing. Most of all, I miss my kids. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how fellowship and moving to one of these places would fit into the current, ideal, little life of […]

Happiness, Please

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth.  We are happy when we are growing. ~John Butler Yeats, 1909 Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? I had never really thought much about it until today.  My husband sent me an interview by Dr. Robert Lustig, who just […]

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