The Reluctant Grownup – Page 134 – Growing old gracelessly.

Birthday Baseball

Yesterday was Liam’s third birthday party, at the Mobile Bay Bears game. I took no photographs of this party, sadly – I was too busy enjoying company and protecting my…

June 10, 2013

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Labor Day Morning Meal Planning

Well clearly this has been in drafts for some time . . . Dinner prep is kind of complicated during hurricane season. Don’t want to have too much in the…

September 21, 2023

Categorizing Things is Overrated

Grieving

How tired I am of longing. Jack’s anxiety is spiraling a little. He needs a therapist, but he hates zoom. Same boy, same. I am feeling the need for CBT…

January 10, 2021

Christmas

RG / January 2, 2012

We’re rewinding a bit to mid-December, when Jack and I made Christmas cookies. I’d like it recorded here, so I can get my Awesome Holiday Mom points. See, we have that book “The…

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Angry?

RG / January 2, 2012

A couple people asked – on NYE, I drank a lot of wine and wrote something about being angry. I did not remember typing it. I don’t know what I was angry about.…

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Aught Eleven

RG / January 1, 2012

1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Wrote a Motion to Sever. (It won!) 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for…

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

RG / December 20, 2011

The other day we put the kids in the car after supper and we drove them through the twinkling streets of uptown New Orleans to marvel at the lights. We pointed out the…

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Christmas Commercialism – DEFENDED

RG / December 19, 2011

I’m bucking the trend and saying yes, I love the buying of Things at Christmastime. For me, Christmas is the “gratification” part of “delayed gratification.” I don’t buy stuff for my kids, myself,…

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