Winning My Heart

30 Day Writing Challenge - Day 6 Five ways to win your heart: 1. Food. I am like a stereotypical man in that the way to my heart is my stomach. (Or maybe a dog.) Feed me and I will love you. 2. Make me laugh. If you have me laughing you have already won. …

Let’s Catch Up

Let's just get down to business. 30 Day Writing Challenge - Day 4 Write about someone who inspires you. This prompt threw me off. I was in a foul mood and really feeling ashamed of and sorry for myself. The fog that is the ugliness of postpartum depression had been creeping back up on me …

Peeved

30 Day Writing Challenge - Day 3 What are your top three pet peeves? 1. Loud chewing, slurping, or mouth sounds in general really get under my skin. It is the worst when I am sitting in silence or I am already attempting to listen to something and the sound of someone else's mouth is louder than …

Guinea Pig

Welcome to the thirty day writing challenge - Day 2. Write something that someone said to you about yourself that you never forget.   "You're going to be my guinea pig." I have heard this more times than I can count. The first time I remember hearing this was in the third grade. My teacher was …

Kick off day 1

So, I am jumping on the 30 day writing challenge as a bit of a get to know ya. Hopefully, this should be a good bit of fun and will keep the pressure off in starting this thing from scratch. Day 1 : 10 things that make you REALLY happy! (in no particular order) 1. My …

“You’re Good, Mama”

(art by dadadreams at Etsy.com) Those are the words my oldest said to me as I laid him down for a nap an hour ago. (Yes, I did choke back tears and lay there in the bed with him until he told me I had to leave.) He does not know better. Or maybe I …