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Lately I haven’t had nearly as much time to dedicate to writing. Some of you who check in here regularly have mentioned noticing I’m not posting as often. Although I have a list of blog posts I’d like to write, I simply have less free time. My day job, the one that pays the bills, is not only exhausting my creative energies (in a very good way), it’s also sucking up much of my free time and consuming me physically as well. I’m running on caffeine and an average of 5-6 hours of sleep per night. It won’t last forever, but at least the next 2-3 months will be at this same pace.
This blog, I love this blog. I love writing and connecting with all of you. I love helping people through my experiences and I adore meeting new people through this little corner of the internet. So I won’t make apologies for not writing as much. People change and evolve… Lord knows this blog has changed direction and evolved quite a bit since it began 5 years ago.
A year ago, if you would have asked me how often my children ate at McDonald’s, I would have made a funny face and muttered something about “as little as possible.”
I had this whole routine down where my oldest would beg and beg to stop there on the way home from daycare every evening and I would say, “McDonald’s is not healthy food. We only eat there on special occasions. You can choose to eat there on your birthday!”
For most of my adult-life, McDonald’s has represented all that is wrong with our country’s eating habits, obesity as a nation and periods of my own unhealthy binging. It represented danger and overweight children and overweight adults (including me). I did not want my children to think that “Happy Meals” were everyday foods. I did not want them thinking McDonald’s was normal for us.
On the way home this evening, for the first time, I thought I’d ask my children, “What are some ways I set a good example for you today?”
I was sincerely curious to see what they had to say. This is what I heard:
“You set a good example when you let that man go ahead of us in the grocery store line.”
“You set a good example when you apologized to those people at the restaurant because we were being too loud.”
“You set a good example when you let us choose special food at the grocery store.”
It’s been two years since our family experienced the split of divorce. In the beginning it was very difficult for the children to understand what was happening, express their feelings and manage the difficulties that come with transitioning between two homes. One of the many things I did to help them was to seek out age-appropriate books on divorce.
In this short video, I feature four of the books I’ve found particularly helpful for my children.
I am now a part of the club of people who have had an EpiPen injection.
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