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today i am

This week I will be 34.
Three years of kids has changed and shaped me more than the previous thirty.
I am less eager to please people that don’t mean much in the grand scheme of my life.
I am getting better at sorting out who those people are.
I am more likely to say no when I don’t [...]

pantsification

On Tuesday I went to a store, let’s call it Banana Republic, to simply exchange a top that I’d bought for a different size.  I happened to see a pair of gray slacks – on SALE! – and since I’ve been half looking for a gray suit I tried them on. 
They fit like a glove, in [...]

beauty is…

Tonight after her bath, I made the mistake of holding Emily Kate right up next to my face and looking in the mirror.
Aaacckk! (you know, Cathy-style) is the first thing that came to mind.
Because I’m in the stage of pregnancy right now that I almost forgot about – the pretty-pretty-pregnancy-horomones-are-leaving-you stage.  The exact same thing [...]

the two sides of my fitness coin

Like most of us, even if I didn’t declare it a resolution I decided that this would be the year to get in shape.  Last year would have been the year, but getting pregnant kind of torpedoed that plan in the form of this-is-my-second-pregnancy-and-dangit-I’m-eating-whatever-I-want-this-time-around gluttony.
So this is it!  2009!  Woot!  However, I’m not SAYING I’m [...]