Early Morning Peace
I needed a place to chatter about whatever comes to mind--my kids, life as a military family, college education for me and the kids, optimism vs pessimism, books, movies, food, exercise and, well, just about anything.
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Whose up at 4 am?
yirabella posted 3 days 31 min ago — This semester I "chose" to take three classes, all online and two of them electives. Easy stuff right? Wrong! It's only easy if the times you choose to study are there for you, uninterrupted. But I have only two semesters to get my degree and...
Did your alarm go off?
yirabella posted 1 week 3 days ago — Photo by louhamilton23Today was a pretty special morning in our household. Allow me to back up to last night when I stood in the hallway between the teen's bedroom doors and said "You set your alarm to 5:15 am and you set it to 5:30 am. I sugg...
Name that plant
yirabella posted 2 weeks 1 day ago — This morning I was out back taking a look at what was growing in my garden besides mounds of weeds. I will not show those here-too embarrassing (cleaning the garden will be part of workout soon). Anyway, the toddler was wondering amongst the we...
Moment of weakness
yirabella posted 2 weeks 3 days ago — It happened again. I had a moment of weakness and feel absolutely guilty about it. Well, maybe just for a fleeting moment anyway. What I really feel is the stomach ache I'm about to experience due to my huge indiscretion with Pecan Pralines. I...
Fatigue? Really?
yirabella posted 3 weeks 1 day ago — Lately I've been feeling the push and pull of a full schedule. Although I know I have it all under control, I was feeling tired, could not catch my breath and irritable to say the least. I visited my doctor, well, "a doctor in the clinic" who jus...
More stuff to do, not enough time
yirabella posted 4 weeks 32 min ago — I started the school year off organized with my online calendar up to date, an area for kids to study and another area for them to play, a little laundry every day, and even time for me to exercise. However, now onto week two and the one thing tha...
When appliances break down
yirabella posted 4 weeks 3 days ago — Sometimes we stop appreciating the tools that generally make our lives easier such as our laundry machines, dishwasher, oven, and refrigerator. Each day these are used and sometimes abused and only when they fail do we realize how much more work w...
School is now in session
yirabella posted 5 weeks 1 day ago — Photo by vygotskijIt seems so easy to forget to look at me, from within, while the kids are pretty much dictating where we go and what we do on a daily basis. Not that I let them rule my world but that I encourage them to get involved, to stay act...
