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Motherhood and personal success aren’t mutually exclusive.
That, I fully believe.
That is not to say, however, that pursuing your passion while balancing being a mom and wife is going to be easy. As I am quickly discovering, it’s quite the opposite.
Writing is my passion. Creating something out of nothing, streaming words together in such a way that it makes people laugh, cry, and think- that is what makes me giddy. That is what drives me to keep writing. Read more on Wasted Time…
Lindsay Maddox… Laughing my way through motherhood.
(And taking submission guidelines literally.)
Remember when MySpace wasn’t ghetto? That’s when my blogging career began. It started innocently: I wanted to lose weight and thought blogging would keep me accountable. I threw in some stories of my firstborn.
People commented.
Wow, you guys. WOW.
My post last week about my first experience talking to a life coach was incredibly long. It didn’t have any pictures to break it up and the post didn’t include many funny and slightly inappropriate quips. After I posted it, I thought to myself, “There is no way anyone is going to make it through this. This is going to bomb.”
I received an interesting email today, one that has me in a bit of a conundrum. First, have you ever heard of the BlogHer network? It’s a pretty big deal. Sites like my favorites: Cake Wrecks, Lost In Suburbia, and Karen Walrond of Chookooloonks belong to the BlogHer network.
You get two blogs today, lucky duck.
This one will be a quickie though.
(Side note: If you giggled at the word “quickie,” you’re my kind of people. Gutter brains, unite!)
So. I have been thinking a lot about my total lack of running ability displayed ever-so-obviously in the game last night. I have also been
thinking about my bucket list, where I said I want to run a half marathon. It …
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This thought crossed my mind many-a-time during our soccer game last night. You’re wondering if I made an idiot of myself after all, aren’t you…
Well, yeah… I kinda did.
I subbed in and ran out to the field. Soon after, I found the ball at my feet. Almost as quickly as …
I. Am. So. Excited!
terrible, awful day and that whole “we have to buy a new car” thing? Well, we bought one. I
researched used cars in our area, narrowed it down after comparing reviews, prices, mileage, NADA prices, etc. and Clint and I went out at 7:00 last night to look at the three we had narrowed it down
to.
We had one in particular that we were jonesin’ for, a 2007 Chrysler Sebring in purdy …
Think of all the horrible things that have happened to you to date. Now, imagine all of those things happening within the course of a year. You might,
just might, be close to understanding what my friend has gone through this past year.
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I didn’t know Katie two months ago, but I feel like I’ve known her forever. She is 20 years old, gorgeous inside and …
