Originally published on September 19th, 2006 at Onward & Upward I have been out the past week or so because I’ve actually been quite sick! I’m all better now, thanks to the nice doctors in the emergency room. :-) I don’t have anything insightful to share from my weekend in the sickbed, except that I have a wonderful husband who sure knows how to step up to the plate and take care of me! He is truly wonderful, and I…
The hot topic around the blogosphere right now is about working wives, and the effect their career has on their marriage and family. This is something I’ve been wrestling with a lot, and am working on a blog post in my other blog about the subject. (No promises when that will be published!) This topic is an issue (a.k.a. “Mommy Wars”) which has been debated frequently in today’s day and age, with working women becoming the norm. This particular controversy…
Originally published on August 24th, 2006 at Onward & Upward Sometimes I feel like I’m doing everything wrong. I read blogs about women who feel strongly that their place is at home and not in an office, and I feel like I’m failing my husband in some way. I told him this past week that I wanted to quit working full-time, and he seemed really apprehensive. He knows me better than anyone else, and he knew what the issue was….
Originally published on August 22, 2006 at Onward & Upward I may not be much of a cook, but I do love to bake. When I was growing up, my mother would always make banana bread and give it to our neighbors or people just moving to town. I remember many a day, wrapping up banana bread in saran-wrap or foil to take to someone. I hope to continue the tradition on my own. This weekend, I made banana bread…
During the summer after kindergarten, I was involved in a reading contest at my local library. The person who read the most books won a prize and got their name in the local paper (it was a small town). Being the avid bookworm that I was, I set about to see how many books I could read. I’m not sure what the duration of the contest was, but I read a total of 262 books. The 2nd place person in…