The Reluctant Grownup – Page 167 – Growing old gracelessly.

THPR Challenges

*THPR is The Happiness Project Revisited, and in January we have a week of prompts. Here are a few more. These are boring navel-gazing, fair warning: Are You Promotion Focused…

January 18, 2024

Wonder Women Posts

I Wonder What Kind of Parents We’ll Be

You’ll be the strict one, I say to him. What makes you think that? he asks mildly. I don’t know, I say, I just think you will. We’ll see, he…

March 7, 2008

Wonder Women Posts

That’s Amore

Ahhhh, my mama. She’s the oldest child of a pair of good Catholics who birthed seven children they couldn’t afford and would have had more if cancer hadn’t claimed my…

February 25, 2009

Snap

RG / July 6, 2010

And just like that, as of about halfway through the day on the Fourth, I’ve snapped out of it. Still a little bored, still a little listless, but the depression has lifted. Weird,…

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The Fourth of July

RG / July 4, 2010

Right now, Jack is sleeping soundly in his room. Liam is hiccuping and flailing in my mother’s arms, as she rocks him in the glider in the corner. The cat is hovering over…

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Joy Comes in the Morning

RG / June 29, 2010

There is a Bible verse I used to love back in the days when I was an evangelical, and though my ardor for daily Bible reading (i.e. self-flagellation and guilt over my not…

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Bundle of Blues

RG / June 26, 2010

We have a lovely apartment, and I’ll be happy to get the hell out of it for more than 20 minutes. Which will happen at some point in the future. I know it…

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Moot Court and Potties and Journals, Oh My

RG / June 24, 2010

I can officially make the following comments: The newborn stuff is SOOOO much easier the second time around. I have almost no anxiety this time, I am managing his feeding better, and I…

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