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Interlude: Humiliations Galore

This entry is part 4 of 10 in the series atypicalrelationship

His parents went to Greensboro for dinner and a hotel room to celebrate a special family occasion.

Which means that we had one of the very few chances for us to have some quiet alone time.

After a full day that involved trying to pull the toilet in my bathroom to unclog it (can’t [...]

Exhilarated, excited to be in love(ish) again

This entry is part 3 of 10 in the series atypicalrelationship

We go out as often as we can, but I honestly prefer hanging out at the house with the kids. He keeps asking “would you marry me?” and I keep ducking the question. It’s too soon, he’s too still-married, please stop asking. Okay, if I answer will you NEVER ASK ME AGAIN? Then yes, [...]

Hoping this time would be different

This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series atypicalrelationship

The accident happened and I slid into another world. Answering the phone, shaking hands, hugging people whose names I remembered but either had never met or hadn’t seen since I was a child.

He became my rock in the storm.

He held me when I cried, handed me tissues. He came to the [...]

I did not fall, I jumped

This entry is part 1 of 10 in the series atypicalrelationship

He has three kids. Only they’re not “kids”, they’re teens/young adults.

Older.

When I gave the usual preparatory spiel (Kids, school, work, special needs kid, high intensity life), he didn’t blink. He asked me out twice before I realized it was an invitation. In my world, “what kind of movies do you like?” [...]

Make a wish!

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A quick pic before I have to get out the lawn [...]

I got to hold a baby yesterday.

A tiny snuggly baby-baby. He was sleeping when she handed him to me, and he stayed asleep while I baby-dance/rocked and his mama and I caught up.

Holding him was bittersweet. I’m never POSITIVE that I’m done having babies, but having more is simply not practical, affordable or do-able by myself.

As we [...]

Eight years ago, I became a mama again.

Eight years ago, I went to the hospital (again) and came home with this:

and my life has never been the same.

And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Things made:

In a flurry of domesticity, I ignored Mount Laundrous and went a little crazy in the kitchen for a change.

Pumpkin muffins (I know they look like rocks. They’re MINI muffins. Shush. If you can take a better picture, bring your highfalutin camera over here and DO IT.)

Grape salad.

Yes, you [...]

Timing, they say, is everything.

There is a man I run into with an irregular regularity at the grocery store. Which is to say that he always catches my attention, but rarely at an opportune moment for conversation.

Today was such an occasion. A quick trip, a dash, a dart for forgotten ingredients – get in, get out, [...]

A Small Request

Dear Utz,

I love your products with a white-hot fiery passion. I am salt sensitive – so much so that regular potato chips can leave salt burns on my tongue. When I discovered your “lower salt than anyone else” regular chips, and your no-salt line I was in potato chip heaven.

To be [...]