**taken from Kelly.
I need to thank her for helping me (unintentionally) for giving me the idea for my first official post at my new home.
Hi my name is Dawn. I go by many names–but my faves are honey and ma ma (sadly this one only happens are accident). My students call me Dawn or Finley and I answer to either as well as Teach (I am fond of this one too.).
I have been a wife for over 7 years and I Continue reading
I am now permanatly here. I am still have my orignial blog Family Found and will for another week or two, until I know that all of my readers have updated their links, favorites, etc. I am excited about my new site and new persona. I am working on a good opening post. Tune in…
Not to wait until the last minute to do my homework? I have been a student pretty much my entire life. I have 2 books a week to read for school–1 per class. But I wait and I wait until I have only 1-2 days to read the one book leaving me only about 12 hours to read the other book. How horrible a student am I? And I’m teacher to boot. Homework doesn’t get any easier the older you get…I really think it is quite the opposite, it seems more absurd as you get older. I mean come on, who wants to read about writing across the curriculum when they can dance to bluegrass music with their toddler or watch trashy tv or play with him at the park?
Obviously not me…as it is six in the morning and I am up early on the day of my class trying to finish reading the last 100 pages and write my 2 page paper…
Minnow is fast approaching being a year and a half. I can hardly believe how fast the time has gone. When I knew I was going to be a stay at home mom, I joined a stay-at-home moms group. It has been a great group and I don’t know what I would have done without a group of women who were going through what I was going through. Our kids are various ages as are our reasons for staying home. We had our 2nd annual family picnic yesterday–where all the moms get to sit and chat, while our husbands watch and play with the kids. It was really nice and Minnow had a blast. I am so thankful that I have been able to stay home with Minnow. This feeling causes me to question my decision to attempt to go back to work as our next little one will be joining us around May (i am guessing). I have to wonder if she doesn’t deserve the same attention and parental bonding that Minnow did. Is it fair to her? Is it fair the the children that will hopefully come after her? I just don’t know and boy how I wish I had all the answers.
And where does he get off creating a “law”? I have been a victim. It will happen to all of us parents. Your spouse aka “the reliever” will go out of town. You will while trying to make dinner, cut your finger so that it bleeds as though you have cut off said finger–when in all actuality you have only sliced it a little. While trying to stop said bleeding and administer first aid to yourself–as your toddler cannot help–said toddler will proceed to pull all of the toilet paper off and try and give it to you, since he watched you rip off a piece to use as a compress. Continue reading
Embracing Imperfection 
