Posted by Editormum on 24 March 2010 in
Family Life Wow … almost a month of no new posts (though I have been migrating old posts from my Blogit account, so you’ll see some really old stuff back in the archives, as well as my new “Inspirations” page). Lost my groove back there somewhere, and haven’t the time to go back and try to find [...]
Tags: baseball, Boy Scouts, boys, camping, challenges, Christianity, divorce, Family Life, Joel and Kathy Davisson, karate, marriage
Posted by Editormum on 1 February 2010 in
True Stories,
poetry That’s awesome, because I haven’t been able to write poetry since my marriage began to disintegrate in 1997. I have been waiting, sometimes impatiently, for the ability to return. Sometimes I was afraid it never would. Occasionally a phrase or two would come … but I could never get the fragments to gel into a [...]
Tags: divorce, honesty, pain, poem, poetry, sonnet
Posted by Editormum on 24 June 2009 in
Family Life,
Philosophy,
Religion Everybody makes a big deal about turning forty, as if somehow that number was the embodiment of bad karma or something. I don’t know. Forty is just a number. I’m turning forty this year, and I don’t feel any different. Quite frankly, I am looking forward to a new decade. I spent the last one [...]
Tags: birthdays, car accident, challenges, courage, depression, disability, divorce, exercise, faith, karate, milestones, pain, post-concussion syndrome, strength, stuttering, weight-loss
Posted by Editormum on 12 December 2008 in
Family Life So if the holidays weren’t complicated enough, yesterday I had to take a half-day off from work to go to court with the ex. And then I get down there, and he decides that, rather than going through the ordeal of actually appearing in court, he’ll work a deal with us there, in the corridor [...]
Tags: challenges, divorce, Family Life, holidays, karate
Posted by Editormum on 5 September 2008 in
Family Life My ex agreed to handle Scout uniforms if I would handle karate uniforms. This weekend is New Scout’s first camping trip. Ex kept telling me it was next weekend. I kept saying “Scoutmaster told me it was the weekend after Labour Day. This weekend.” Guess who was right. (But I wasn’t mean yet. I didn’t [...]
Tags: Boy Scouts, boys, camping, challenges, divorce
Posted by Editormum on 24 March 2008 in
Family Life,
True Stories I am utterly and completely flabbergasted by what the X did today. The kids and I got home at 8 p.m. The phone rings while we’re getting our jammies on. It’s X. “I have a housewarming gift for the kids and you. Can I bring it now? I came by earlier, but you weren’t home [...]
Tags: challenges, character, children, divorce, Family Life
