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Sunday in The Park With Nancy
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Listen to your mother show. Sunday in The Park With Nancy. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. Over twenty times in the past three days interviewers asked me questions like:. Do you listen to your mother? What’s the best advice your mother ever gave you? Is your mother still with us? Do you think your mom had any influence on your creating Listen To Your Mother? Describe your mom in one word. I listen carefully to my mom. You know that problem I had? Advice from my mom.
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the happy hausfrau: A Rush Of Disappointment
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What fresh hell is this? A Rush Of Disappointment. There are two songs I want played at my funeral. One is "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac. The other is "Jump Around" by House of Pain. Oops, I guess there are three of them. The third is "Time Stand Still" by Rush. It's funny how songs change over the years, right? Back to my funeral: so I love the Rush song "Time Stand Still". When I was a beer-chugging fangirl back in the 80's and early 90's, the song was sweet because OMG Aimee Mann was in it! Neither one...
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the happy hausfrau: 7 Ways College Kids Home For The Summer Are Exactly Like Mice
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What fresh hell is this? 7 Ways College Kids Home For The Summer Are Exactly Like Mice. I have two college kids. One lived in a dorm room a couple hundred miles away during the school year, the other lived in a big house with friends just a short drive from here. Both have come home for the summer, joining their two younger brothers, the dog, and me. Yay! Those two facts don’t seem to have anything to do with each other, do they? Then you know exactly what I’m talking about. They leave tell-tale signs.
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the happy hausfrau: Close Encounters Of The Ex-Husband Kind
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What fresh hell is this? Close Encounters Of The Ex-Husband Kind. First of all, I must offer an apology. To all of you who have come here seeking advice and reassurance from me, to all of you who have emailed and messaged, pouring your hearts out and thanking me for showing you that it is possible to get through a really hard divorce and be okay:. You've got this, sister! Yes, it hurts like hell when your hopes and dreams are blown to bits but you WILL rise again and be fabulous! Three nights a week I wo...
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the happy hausfrau: Those People
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What fresh hell is this? There's a food drive happening at the school where I work. Several bins have been set up throughout the hallways, with cute kid-decorated signs that implore us to SCARE HUNGER and donate non-perishables for the local food shelf. As I am wont to do, I look at the food as I walk by. Why? Because I like food. It's like porn to me. I wish I was lying. So I walk by, several times a day, and gaze at the donations. Look at all this awesomeness! It was one of those moments in life, when ...
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2012 June – It's me, debcb!
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It's me, debcb! Why, yes, I can multi-task. I juggle a career, a little charity work, some tennis balls and mommyhood. Some girls never grow up…. June 26, 2012. Maybe you should pause before you hit send. Just saying…. Today if you hate someone, all you have to do is send an email. Push a button. And, since you’re hiding behind a screen, you can say anything you want and sit back and watch the devastation. That scares me for my soon-to-be middle school daughter. Tweens have no scrup...June 15, 2012.
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the happy hausfrau: Divorced And STILL Not Dating
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What fresh hell is this? Divorced And STILL Not Dating. A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about being divorced and not dating. It ran on HuffPost Divorce and has always been one of my favorites. Just prior to writing it, I'd been on the last, gimpy leg of my on again, off again relationship with the beau I called John McCain. We had taken a trip to Amsterdam and things just kind of fell apart afterwards. After a few dateless months, I declared myself SINGLE AS HELL and wrote about it. I still get inv...
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the happy hausfrau: April 2010
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What fresh hell is this? Almost a month into my latest stab at joining the thinner ranks. I am trying to fit some exercise in whenever possible. I used to belong to the local YMCA and absolutely loved it, but unfortunately I had to dump that luxury. They do have a "pauper's membership" which I am considering, but given the nice run of weather we've had lately I'm trying to make do without. Posted by the happy hausfrau. This rollercoaster we call life. Oh hindsight, why are you so clear? We waited, and wa...
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the happy hausfrau: Imitation Is Not Flattery. It's Stealing.
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What fresh hell is this? Imitation Is Not Flattery. It's Stealing. Image: stephanyfolsum.com Used with permission. The infinite monkey theorem doesn't have anything to do with what I'm going to blather on about here, but it makes me giggle and, if twisted a bit, I can make it fit. I can't be bothered to look up the exact quote, but it is something along these lines:. In this instance, I'd change it to read:. I loved reading her stuff because our stories were ickily (it's a word now, spellcheck) similar: ...
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the happy hausfrau: March 2010
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What fresh hell is this? Post baby bod: keep it to yourself! Other new moms who are already feeling pressure to be "perfect"? Maybe it's just my opinion, but I don't think Mother Nature ever intended someone to walk down the runway of a Victoria's Secret fashion show while still expelling lochia. If what you're doing is solely for YOU to feel good about yourself, fine. But why does the rest of the universe need to see it? Posted by the happy hausfrau. Can you hear me now? Posted by the happy hausfrau.
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