Finding Yourself Despite Yourself http://findingyourself.net It's like walking to the park with the dog and seeing a flippin unicorn Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:08:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Putting a joyful foot forward I woke up this morning tired of the stress and worry. Living under a cloud is exhausting. Things have started looking up and I’m going to embrace that.

I started with a colorful new header. Then I rinsed off a bowlful of glistening fat strawberries and took the boys out back to enjoy the day.

Later, [...]]]> http://findingyourself.net/2010/03/10/putting-a-joyful-foot-forward/ Sometimes you get so busy holding your breath that you forget to breath.

There’s been a lot going on behind the curtain of the Fidget family, blerg-y no fun stuff. Taking pictures is less stressful then talking so that’s what I’ve been doing.

Saffi is busy growing. Funny how they do that.

The boys are making sure to keep me on my toes, [...]]]> http://findingyourself.net/2010/03/08/sometimes-you-get-so-busy-holding-your-breath/ Keep your fork On Sunday, we laid The Hubster’s Mema to rest. Her church referred to it as “moving day.” It was the first time we took the 4 older children to a funeral, though this was the second of Saffi’s short life. I’m not big on the idea of children at funerals- they can be rather scary. [...]]]> http://findingyourself.net/2010/03/02/keep-your-fork/ Bubbles

]]> http://findingyourself.net/2010/02/24/bubbles/ Making Time for Love: Why it’s important and how

If reading about S-E-X makes you uncomfortable just enjoy this lovely picture. Spring keeps sneaking in for a day here and there; this morning I took advantage of it.

There is an epidemic going on around me. Left and right families are falling apart. Some just had a baby, others are a few years and [...]]]> http://findingyourself.net/2010/02/22/making-time-for-love-why-its-important-and-how/ I heart faces: hands on fun

this weeks challenge is “hands on fun” It just so happens that one of my favorite photos is of Tessa’s hands. I took this a year ago when one of our chickens laid the biggest chicken egg I’d ever seen!

]]> http://findingyourself.net/2010/02/21/i-heart-faces-hands-on-fun/ I’m blogging just to tell you I’m not blogging I’m blogging just to tell you I’m not blogging this week, thereby rendering this blog post completely incorrect and useless.

We spent our 10 yr anniversary and Valentines day barfing- to the point that I nearly blacked out. I’m pretty sure I felt my stomach turn inside out and smack me in the uvula. So [...]]]> http://findingyourself.net/2010/02/17/im-blogging-just-to-tell-you-im-not-blogging/ A Valentine for my dear readers

Happy Valentines Day

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and my how you have grown

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