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  • Emotional Regulation

    Emotional Regulation

    There are so many terms which have popped up into everyday conversation since I was parenting my littles, one that my therapist throws in a lot is ’emotional regulation’. I had never heard this term when I was a mom of little kids and I lived in LA and went to a million kids classes…

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  • Rollin on the River

    Rollin on the River

    My kids cannot believe that I can tolerate animals in my environment, much less sleeping in the bed with me. I have always been incredibly OCD, in particular about germs. I still am a germ avoider where I can be but I do not stress out about their mess any longer. Usually. Norm arrived back…

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  • The Gift

    The Gift

    This week has been a bit eventful, but for a home bird like me I guess the bar is pretty low. Norm was away all week so I was coping on my own. I delayed last week’s post until we arrived back on Sunday afternoon from our road trip and then Norm flew to Cambodia…

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  • Vultures & Cranes & Babies, Oh My!

    Vultures & Cranes & Babies, Oh My!

    I have had a rather chaotic week. First, I was living like all the single ladies last Monday to Wednesday as Norm was away in Johannesburg. He had booked the doggy day care to take Finn all day so he was occupied all day and exhausted at night. I still had 4 beasties which I…

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  • The More We Know

    The More We Know

    This week the weather has again been a bit of a see-saw. Today we woke to a lovely gentle rain but we have also had some incredibly hot days. Last Sunday and Monday it was crazy hot. I had been booked for drumming last Sunday but I just felt exhausted. I wanted nothing other than…

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