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You don’t always get what you want, it’s called adulthood!

May 23, 2017December 4, 2011 by Shay

You ever wake up and realize that for all the fun you get to have as an adult that sometimes being an adult, plain old sucks? The older I get, it’s started to set in that when making decisions you have to think not only short term but long term, that’s where I am now. …

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Categories Growing Up, Midlife Changes, personal growth, Random babble Tags decision making 4 Comments

The Power of Wow….not!

May 23, 2017December 2, 2011 by Shay

As an almost middle aged, slightly overweight woman with a job, a young child and way too many things on my plate, I admit when Eden Fantasys offered me Lori Bryant-Woolridge’s The Power of Wow to review, I jumped on the chance to review it. Like so many women, I struggle to stay in touch …

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Categories Book Reviews Tags book review, Eden's Fantasys, Lori Bryant Woolridge, The Power of Wow

Raising Her, raising me…the journey of parenting

May 23, 2017December 1, 2011 by Shay

Back in 2004 when the Spousal Unit and I sat down and got serious about having a kid, I had all sorts of ideas about how I would raise my child. I admit looking back; a lot of what was driving me was guilt, guilt over feeling that I had failed my firstborn. Having had …

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Categories Parenting, personal growth, Random babble Tags attachment parenting, consensual parenting 6 Comments
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