Yearly Archives: 2009

Thoughts About Life

balance, life, Midwest Parents, Parenting

So why are we here?  Not here, online, on blogs, making friends with women we may never actually see, but why are we here, here.  Here on this earth.  In this world.  Why are we part of our particular family? The community around us?  Why are we friends with our particular friends and mothers to our particular children?

Heavy stuff for a Thursday morning, wouldn’t you say?  Read the rest of my ruminations over at Midwest Parents today.

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Is it Possible to Find Harmony on a Budget Vacation?

compromise, finances, marriage, vacation
About 15 years ago, in our early married days, my husband and I took a weekend trip to Spokane, WA.  No kids, two incomes, endless time.  Sounds like fun, right?  Turns out, it was an early lesson in the marital art of compromise.  How we ended up on the sidewalk in front of our hotel, on a sunny, brisk morning, arguing about the coffee and paper he’d just purchased, is the topic of my most recent post at Blissfully Wed.  You can read about the compromise that saved all future vacations at Blissfully Wed (aka Wedded Bliss).  Pop on by for the gritty details!

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