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Not My Mother’s Day
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Not My Mother’s Day

May 10, 2015May 10, 2015 Crankygiraffe4 Comments

  I was supposed to be sleeping after my late night shift... The boys were planning to make me the classic 5&3 year old breakfast in bed.  The sun is shining and I was looking forward to a day in the sun, just me and my boys.  Instead, I woke up with intolerable flank pain 3… Continue reading Not My Mother’s Day

Wordless Wednesday – :(
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Wordless Wednesday – :(

May 6, 2015 Crankygiraffe5 Comments

  

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Injury, Really?

March 3, 2015 Crankygiraffe8 Comments

Yesterday I ran 10k in the morning and I did some really good, Lon stretchin afterwards. I felt really good and my knee wasn't sore at all. By mid afternoon, the lateral side of my left ankle, just posterior to the maleolus started hurting. I didn't think too much of it, as I've had this… Continue reading Injury, Really?

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The Downer Days

October 5, 2014 Crankygiraffe11 Comments

Every once in a while I have a day when I am "just down." That's it.  Down. I feel stupid, unmotivated, lonely, incompetent, uninterested, and generally unhappy with my life. I wonder if I'm doing the right things in life.  I question whether I made the right decisions, if I've trusted the right people, and… Continue reading The Downer Days

Moving Day
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Moving Day

June 16, 2014 Crankygiraffe3 Comments

Today is the day everything changes. It is the day I have been dreading. The day that has caused many tears to fall. It is the day that has kept me away from blogging the past few days, and it is the day that awaits many different stories. Now I will start to drive and… Continue reading Moving Day

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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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