home is where your happy is
Breaking news: moms are tired. I mean really, really tired. I don’t care if you’re a stay-at-home mom, or a working mom, or a step-mom or a mom of a poodle. We’re all tired. The dads are too, I’m sure, but I’ve never been a dad, so I’m just going to speak for all the…
There is always a spot for the “middle school me” in my head. The girl with the thick black hair and big eyebrows who is trying, like a lot of 13 year olds, to learn how to love herself. It’s almost like she has a little room up there, one that she has decorated…
I can’t tell if I like yoga or not. I want to. I try to, but sometimes something weird happens in yoga or on your average Monday, or Tuesday or Wednesday…..all of a sudden it feels like there is not enough space in whatever room I am standing in. When I’m doing yoga, it’s…
Its 4:11pm, I’ve completely sweated through my t-shirt, I’m having stomach cramps and I can’t tell if I’m going to laugh, cry or pee my pants. It sounds like I’m going into labor or something, right? No. I’m just getting over a traumatic experience. This is the text that I sent at 3:41pm to my…
The other day someone told me that I was a really good mom. I was shocked. Me? Laura Weigel Douglas? The girl that still thinks of herself as a girl? The girl that asks herself several times a day, “Am I doing this right?” I almost died with relief. I know I’m a good…
This is a game that Isla and I play. This game has saved me from many tears, both hers and mine, and it has also given me a lot to think about. When Isla was just 2 years old, she could tell you the eye color of every single person in our family and a…
Today I did something totally wild and crazy……I hung a curtain rod. Really though, I hung the brackets, the rod and the curtains and I had to use a power tool (a drill counts, right?) Last year we had installed the cheapest, worst vertical blinds ever. They barely closed, then they fell apart, then…
