Tag: encore

• A Better Path

  This is my favorite time of day. The sun is setting, and I love the light in the living room. Dinner is cleaned up, the kids are busy with bike riding, costume design, piano playing, and slime creation. I’m thinking a glass of wine for myself might top it off perfectly. Some days my head […]

  Melissa

  August 25, 2020

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  change, children, compassion, empathy, encore, fatherhood, guilt, homeschool, homeschooling, inspiration, journaling, life, lockdown, motherhood, mothers, next generatoin, pandemic, parenthood, parenting, passion, passionate, raise them well, raising children, raising teens, raising tweens, school, single dad, single mom, single mother, single motherhood, single parenting, slow down, strength, teenage years, teenagers, thoughts, working mom, working mother, writing

• Bourbon and Inspiration

  

  As she danced alone in the living room to Joan Jett’s, I Hate Myself For Loving You, while proudly holding the old fashioned she had made on her own, she wondered….I joke of having lost my quarantined mind. But maybe, just maybe I really have?? It’s me. I am the one dancing in the living […]

  Melissa

  April 16, 2020

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  blogging, coronavirus, COVID-19, divorce, encore, energy, extrovert, inspiration, introvert, life, lockdown, love, middle age, motherhood, muse, quarantine, raise them well, raising children, raising teenagers, raising teens, raising tweens, shelter in place, single dad, single mom, single mother, single motherhood, single parenting

• The Exhaustion of Single Motherhood

  

  I love to encourage moms. How can I not? Motherhood has been, still is, and always will be my passion. I sort of fell into it, and turns out it is the greatest gig in life. Today I want to encourage a special category of motherhood. It is another area I sort of fell into…single […]

  Melissa

  March 5, 2020

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  changes, children, divorce, encore, exhaustion, family, inspiration, life, middle age, mom, mommy, mother, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, raise, raising children, raising teenagers, raising teens, relationships, single, single mom, single mother, single motherhood, single parenting

• Move The Laundry and Have a Drink

  Today Miss Charlotte will have a highly anticipated play date with two friends. Every time she talks about it, she gets a huge grin on her face, and asks me how many more days. Today it will be “how many more hours?” Wouldn’t it be nice if grown ups got as excited about getting together? […]

  Melissa

  April 18, 2019

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  cleaning, encore, family, friends, friendship, fun, house keeping, inspiration, motherhood, parenting, play date, raising children, single dad, single mom, single parenting, stress