Mumblings From Troy Ohio

Hey there!  It's been awhile, how are you?  Things have been well here, I'm sorry to have not kept you posted.  One of these days I'll "catch you up". In the meantime, I'm going to try a spe...

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Did you know that, statistically, losing a child is one of the surest causes of divorce?  75% of married couples who lose a child and up losing each other, too.  And then they lose their marr...

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There's a person trapped inside my skull.  I feel her pushing against the ivory walls.  Kicking.  Hammering her fists.  Sobbing in frustration and rage. Her name is Depression.  She's ve...

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I've spent much of today on the verge of tears.  Therapy is a lovely thing, but it really stirs up all the muck on the bottom of my life and begs me to deal with issues long buried. Today the ...

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Somehow I never expected to end up on a therapist's couch. Why, I have no idea.  I was a hot mess before Leila.  My childhood has left me wounded, forever marked.  Like having a clubbed foot...

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Drum Roll Please..... I weighed in this morning at 230lbs!  That's a loss of 7.4lbs in the first week, and it puts me well on my way to reaching my goal of 220lbs by the Shoff Family Reunion (...

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I may be jumping on another bandwagon here, but you have to give me credit - when I do it, it's with both feet and no reservations. I'm committing to the Paleo Diet for 30 days.  In a nutshell...

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It is hot on Wednesday. I don't like the heat. I like summer too. snow shack. united dairy farmer. And lots of other things.

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Outside my window...a morning thunderstorm.  Rain.  The cool breeze is a blessing after a week of heat, humidity, and lack of a.c. I am thinking...about friendship.  How to be a good friend, ...

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I am not a mean-spirited person, yet over and over I get portrayed that way.  And every time it happens, a little piece of my heart dies. It's exhausting to defend my motivations constantly. ...

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Yesterday. That same song I was singing on the way to the hospital. On the same road I was driving. I don't cry much anymore, but it was more than my little heart could take.  On the r...

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I found this at the Strawberry Festival on Saturday.  It's wasn't really her name as much as the little blue forget-me-not flowers pressed onto the mat that had the tears rolling.  Those will a...

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I've come to terms with my infertility again.  I think. My friend Christine and her four daughters stayed with us through the holiday weekend, waiting for the first of the month and her new re...

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It's as if I was holding my breath, waiting for that ticker to roll over. And, now that it has, I feel different. Unencumbered.  Lighter.  No longer weepy and morose. Either the beginning o...

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We had the florist fill the balloons with forget-me-not seeds - I hope a plants bloom and Leila fills Troy with tiny blue flowers.  Maybe someone will see one and wonder.  I hope. ...

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Well, I've decided to give it a shot. Pun intended. Please stop by my 365 Blog and follow the journey from idiot-with-a-camera to (hopefully) something better. :)

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I've always been drawn to old cemeteries. They seem so forgotten. Very few fresh flowers or flags, any evidence that someone who still walks this earth remembers... But they're saturated wi...

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Oh, last night was amazing! I took a pregnancy test and it came back positive! We laughed and hugged and celebrated that God had smiled on us! And then I woke up. I'm usually relieved to wake ...

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I feel like I'm cheating on my blog with my camera. Both are unique forms of expression. Both have a way of centering me. But the camera seems less demanding. Short of learning about aperture a...

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I love playing with the f-stops!

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"Cheese!!!" Is it me, or does my kid have a weird tongue? Is it supposed to do that split thingy? The peony he brought me from the neighbor's house. It smells soooo good! Honeysuckles ...

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I am amazed by the men in my life. Today they took what would have been a miserable day and turned it into a magical one. My husband, Mr. Thrifty himself, bought me a D-SLR! I have wanted a great...

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So soon after my head exploded over the abject refusal to remove strawberry and chocolate milk from the elementary school lunchline on Jaime Oliver's Food Revolution... Mead Johnson rolls out ch...

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I swear, I deserve some kind of medal or award for sitting in my old OB's office and keeping it together. And even talking to Dr. C, who had no idea Leila wasn't here with us on earth anymore (he...

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