Tag: working mother

• Grocery Store – It’s Over

  

  Dear Grocery Store, I want to break up. It’s been well over 20 years now of dealing with you and the love is just gone. As the time nears to see you, I cringe. Thoughts of meal planning haunt me and I wonder when it will end. My heart races with anxiety rather than passion, […]

  Melissa

  February 22, 2021

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  errands, family, feelings, grocery shopping, home, life, middle age, midlife, mom life, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, raising chidren, raising teenagers, single mom, single parenting, working mom, working mother

• 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

• Stop Empowering Me

  

  On my quest to live my life my way, with little concern for what others think about it, I hit speed bumps daily. This learning to love oneself isn’t as easy as it sounds. It has to be more than just a nice little love. It’s got to be an in your face, you are mine and […]

  Melissa

  February 5, 2020

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• The Sweetest Things

  It has been a rough week. As much as I fight it and try to make life perfect, I have to accept the good with the bad. I am going through some tough lessons, and I’d really like to stomp my feet like a child and refuse to listen. But lo and behold…I am a […]

  Melissa

  October 24, 2019

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• I just Want To Clean The Toilet

  Every once in a while I get an entire day at home. When this rare occasion happens, I can’t contain my excitement as I think…..”I get to clean the house!” I just didn’t see this strange love of domestication phase coming. I’ll never forget a day in counseling many years ago, (nothing big – just working out […]

  Melissa

  October 23, 2019

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• Let’s Talk

  

  I. Am. Tired. It isn’t from lack of sleep, or the one million loads of laundry I just completed. It is from love. The love I dispense on a daily basis is beautiful and exhausting. Each day as I sit to write, my heart tells me who to encourage. I have some unusual categories in […]

  Melissa

  September 24, 2019

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• Fall Down. Get Up. Repeat.

  

  Is there anyone out there whose life is going as planned? Is this some kind of joke? Maybe it is just me – but so far every plan I have had gets hijacked….sometimes for the better – sometimes not. I have learned to accept it. This is it. This is life. Fall down. Get up. […]

  Melissa

  August 28, 2019

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  blogging, changes, christian, encouragement, home education, homeschooling, inspiration, ivan albright, life decisions, middle age, midlife, plans, raise, raising children, single dad, single mom, single parenting, working mother

• Chasing Fear

  

    I took a break from most everything in life recently, and studied for my real estate broker exam. It was worth it….I passed. 🙂   Taking a break from everything is a bit of an exaggeration. The laundry, groceries and cleaning did not patiently wait for me to return. Nor did the children’s hungry […]

  Melissa

  July 25, 2016

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  anxiety, career, challenge, changes, confidence, fear, goals, growth, midlife, motherhood, selfish, working mom, working mother

• 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