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Questing for a bestie…the search for a best friend

May 23, 2017April 23, 2013 by Shay

This past week was school vacation week here in New England. Between the Brother’s Evil in Boston mucking up our plans to visit the Museum of Science and that pesky job of mine turning me into an indentured servant, we really didn’t do much. However late in the week when it was clear that the …

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No maps, no guides, the final frontier of parenting…grown kids

May 23, 2017April 1, 2013 by Shay

When I was a much younger woman, nothing would piss me off faster than hearing some “older” person tell me ever so patiently that when I got older, I would get “it”. Whatever this mysterious “it” was.  It always felt patronizing to tell me that despite the fact that I was an adult, I wasn’t …

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A mama’s heart…where I pretend to do that Mama blogger thing

May 16, 2020March 14, 2013 by Shay

There are times when a Mama’s heart is so filled with emotions that it wants to explode. To choose to bring a new life into the world is to sign up for a lifetime of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. As a Mama who straddles the line having both an adult …

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