Tag: extrovert

• The Friendship of a Daughter

  

  If you are lovingly following along on my motherhood/midlife journey, you may have figured out that my oldest daughter, has blessed me with a grandchild…oh and her husband helped. Let’s give credit where credit is due, shall we? My beauty, Carolann, recently had her 26th birthday. Not sure how that is possible since I am […]

  Melissa

  August 3, 2020

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  adult daughter, changes, cjildren, daughters, encouragement, extrovert, family, grandchild, grandchildren, grandmother, grandparents, growing up, inspiration, introvert, life, middle age, midlife, mommy, moms, mother’s love, motherhood, Nana, raising children, raising daughters, raising teenagers, raising teens, relationships, strong willed, stubborn

• Stop Telling Teenagers This Isn’t That Bad

  

  I have heard it said a lot lately, that teenagers should quit moping, after all they don’t have it as bad as a senior in high school during the Vietnam war did. Agreed. For sure. Every era has their own bad time. As a 48 year old myself, I’d say this current situation with the Coronavirus […]

  Melissa

  May 9, 2020

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  anxiety, bad mood, children, Coronovirus, COVID-19, emotional health, emotions, extrovert, friendship, kids, lockdown, lonely, mental health, mommies, motherhood, pandemic, parenting, parents, raising children, raising teenagers, raising teens, raising tweens, shelter in place, single mom, single motherhood, single parenting, stay home, summer job, teenagers, tweens

• 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

• Facebook Friends

  Sometimes life is hard…like really, really hard. For any of you reading this – I am proud of you. You have most likely been through something tough in your life by now, and you are still here. You are still trying. Some stages of life are like that. We just try our best, every day. […]

  Melissa

  March 2, 2020

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  blog, blogging, caring, changes, extrovert, extroverted, facebook, feelings, friends, friendship, giving, helping others, insomnia, inspiration, instagram, loneliness, lonely, middle age, relationships, snapchat, social media, socialiazing, support, technology, thoughts, tough times, twitter, writing

• Wanderlust

  

  I arrived in Ireland two days ago, along with my mother and my son. They are here to do family research and find the homes of some of our relatives who left many years ago to come to America. It’s been an emotional experience thus far. I came along to basically be their driver. ( […]

  Melissa

  May 28, 2016

  nostalgia, Uncategorized

  ancestors, atmosphere, cottages, culture, extrovert, foreign, genealogy, Ireland, mother, nature, open mind, senses, solitude, son, thoughts, travel, wanderlust

• Solitide? No Thanks

  

  Extroverts suck at taking alone time. I can only speak of my own experiences, and that’s how it is for this extrovert. Due to my midlife crisis and constant confusion about what I want to be when I grow up….I thought a weekend alone in the city would be just what the doctor ordered – […]

  Melissa

  April 5, 2016

  Heels

  acceptance, alone time, choices, extrovert, extroverted, freinds, friendship, get away, introvert, midlife, social, solitude, wisdom, writing

• Should I Stay or Should I Go

  

  After staying home raising children for 22 years, I recently interviewed for a position that will take me not just out of the home, but into the sky. If you guessed astronaut, you just don’t know me, and that hurts. For all of you who have interviewed for jobs that would be your career, I […]

  Melissa

  January 20, 2016

  Heels

  career, challenge, changes, children, choices, extrovert, flight attendant, guilt, interviewing, midlife, motherhood, passion, raising children, resume, stay at home moms, wisdom, working mom, working mother